Shloka 7
सरस्वतीतीर्थानुक्रमः — बलरामस्य तीर्थयात्रा
Sarasvatī Tīrtha Itinerary — Balarāma’s Pilgrimage
वैशम्पायन उवाच आसन पूर्वयुगे राजन् मुनयो भ्रातरस्त्रय:
vaiśampāyana uvāca | āsan pūrvayuge rājan munayo bhrātaras trayaḥ, brahmalokajitaḥ sarve tapasā brahmavādinaḥ |
ವೈಶಂಪಾಯನನು ಹೇಳಿದನು— “ರಾಜನೇ! ಪೂರ್ವಯುಗದಲ್ಲಿ ಮೂರು ಸಹೋದರರು ಮುನಿಗಳಾಗಿದ್ದರು. ಅವರು ಎಲ್ಲರೂ ಬ್ರಹ್ಮವಾದಿಗಳು; ತಪಸ್ಸಿನ ಬಲದಿಂದ ಬ್ರಹ್ಮಲೋಕವನ್ನು ಜಯಿಸಿ (ಅಂದರೆ ಅಲ್ಲಿ ಸೇರುವ ಅಧಿಕಾರವನ್ನು ಪಡೆದು) ಇದ್ದರು.”
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse foregrounds tapas (disciplined austerity) and brahma-vāda (right spiritual understanding/teaching) as means to the highest attainments, presenting spiritual authority as earned through practice and insight rather than birth or power.
Vaiśampāyana begins an illustrative account by telling the king that, in an earlier age, three brothers who were sages lived and, through austerities, attained Brahmaloka—setting up a precedent or exemplum for the discussion that follows.