Shloka 16
पञ्चमहाभूतगुण-इन्द्रियनिग्रह-उपदेशः | Teaching on the Qualities of the Five Elements and Sense-Control
निःश्वास: पवनश्चापि तेजोडग्निश्व तवाच्युत । बाहवस्ते दिश: सर्वा: कुक्षिश्नापि महार्णव:,महातेजस्वी परमेश्वर! ब्रह्मा, वेद और जाननेयोग्य सभी वस्तुएँ आपने ही उत्पन्न की हैं। देव! आकाश आपका मस्तक है। चन्द्रमा और सूर्य नेत्र हैं। वायु श्वास है तथा अग्नि आपका तेज है। अच्युत! सम्पूर्ण दिशाएँ आपकी भुजाएँ और महासागर आपका कुक्षिस्थान है। देव! मधुसूदन! पर्वत आपके ऊरु और अन्तरिक्ष-लोक आपकी नाभि है। पृथ्वीदेवी आपके चरण तथा ओषधियाँ रोएँ हैं
niḥśvāsaḥ pavanaś cāpi tejo 'gnis tvaṁ acyuta | bāhavas te diśaḥ sarvāḥ kukṣiś cāpi mahārṇavaḥ || mahātejasvī parameśvara! brahmā vedāś ca jñeyāni sarvāṇi ca tvayaiva sṛṣṭāni | deva! ākāśaṁ te mastakam | candrasūryau netre | vāyur niḥśvāsaḥ, agnis tejaḥ | acyuta! sarvā diśo bāhavaḥ, mahārṇavaḥ kukṣiḥ | deva! madhusūdana! parvatā ūrū, antarīkṣaloko nābhiḥ | pṛthivī devī caraṇau, oṣadhayaḥ romāṇi ||
Uttanka said: “O Acyuta, your breath is the wind; your radiance is fire. All the directions are your arms, and the great ocean is your belly. O supremely radiant Lord, Supreme Ruler—Brahmā, the Vedas, and all that can be known have been brought forth by you alone. O God, the sky is your head; the moon and the sun are your eyes. The mountains are your thighs and the mid-space your navel. The Earth is your feet, and the herbs are the hairs upon your body.”
उत्तडुक उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse teaches a devotional vision in which the Supreme Lord is identical with the cosmos: natural forces and cosmic regions are understood as the Lord’s own body. This frames knowledge, creation, and reverence as ultimately directed toward the one divine source.
Uttanka addresses Acyuta with a hymn of praise, describing the deity’s cosmic body—sky as head, sun and moon as eyes, wind as breath, fire as radiance, directions as arms, ocean as belly—affirming the Lord as creator of Brahmā, the Vedas, and all knowable things.