Shloka 113
Pūjya-namaskārya-prakaraṇa
On Those Worthy of Honor and Salutation
पर्याये तात कम्मिंश्रिद् ब्राह्मण्यमिह विन्दति । ब्राह्मण जो-जो जिस प्रकार करना चाहता है
śakra uvāca | paryāye tāta kasmiṃś cid brāhmaṇyam iha vindati | tāta jīvaḥ asya jagataḥ antar anekāsu yoniṣu bhraman bāhulyena janma labhate | evaṃ janma-janmāntareṣu kadācit sa brāhmaṇatvaṃ prāpnoti |
シャクラ（インドラ）は言った。「愛しき子よ、時の巡りのうちに、この世のある転機において、ある存在はブラーフマナの位を得る。幾多の胎と生の形をさまよい歩き、身を帯びた自己は生まれてはまた生まれる。かくして重なる再生ののち、いつかブラーフマナたる境地を得るのだ。」
शक्र उवाच
Educational Q&A
Brahminhood is presented as something attained in due course through the long wandering of the jīva across many births—implying a moral-spiritual maturation shaped by karma and discipline rather than a merely accidental or momentary condition.
Indra (Śakra) is instructing a listener addressed as “tāta,” explaining how beings transmigrate through many forms and, at some point in that sequence of births, may attain the status of a brāhmaṇa.