Shloka 30
Chapter 7: Dvīpa–Varṣa–Meru-varṇana
Description of the Dvīpa, Varṣas, and Mount Meru
ब्रह्मलोकच्युता: सर्वे सर्वे सर्वेषु साधव: । तपस्तप्यन्ति ते तीव्र भवन्ति हार्ध्वरेतस: । रक्षणार्थ तु भूतानां प्रविशन्ते दिवाकरम्
sañjaya uvāca |
brhmalokacyutāḥ sarve sarve sarveṣu sādhavaḥ |
tapastapyanti te tīvraṃ bhavanti ūrdhvaretasaḥ |
rakṣaṇārthaṃ tu bhūtānāṃ praviśanti divākaram |
サンジャヤは言った。「彼らは皆、梵天界（ブラフマローカ）より降り来たる徳ある者たちであり、性は清らかにして、あらゆる者に慈しみ深く振る舞う。彼らは苛烈な苦行を修め、堅固なる梵行者（ūrdhvaretaḥ）として精気を守り保つ。やがて万有を護るため、太陽の中へと入り、その世界を支える力の一部となるのだ。」
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse links personal discipline (tapas and brahmacarya/ūrdhvaretas) with universal welfare: the power generated by ethical self-restraint is portrayed as sustaining and protecting all beings, even to the point of merging with the Sun’s life-giving function.
Sañjaya describes a class of highly virtuous ascetics said to have descended from Brahmaloka. Through intense austerity and celibate discipline, they become spiritually potent and then ‘enter the Sun’—a cosmological image for contributing their merit/energy to the Sun’s protective, sustaining role for living creatures.