Shloka 120
Adhyāya 284: Tapas as a Corrective to Household Attachment
Parāśara’s Instruction
हायिहायिहुवाहायिहाबुहायि तथा5सकृत् । गायन्ति त्वां सुरश्रेष्ठ सामगा ब्रह्म॒वादिन:
hāyihāyihuvāhāyihābuhāyi tathā sakṛt | gāyanti tvāṃ suraśreṣṭha sāmāgā brahmavādinaḥ ||
ಸುರಶ್ರೇಷ್ಠನೇ! ಸಾಮಗಾನ ಮಾಡುವ ವೇದವೇತ್ತ ಬ್ರಹ್ಮವಾದಿಗಳು ‘ಹಾಯಿ ಹಾಯಿ, ಹುವಾ ಹಾಯಿ, ಹಾಬು ಹಾಯಿ’ ಇತ್ಯಾದಿ ಧ್ವನಿಗಳನ್ನು ಮರುಮರು ಉಚ್ಚರಿಸಿ, ಸಾಮಸ್ವರಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ನಿರಂತರವಾಗಿ ನಿನ್ನ ಮಹಿಮೆಯನ್ನು ಹಾಡುತ್ತಾರೆ.
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights the dharmic power of sacred sound: learned Vedic chanters use Sāman melodies and ritual vocables to sustain continuous praise of the supreme divine, implying that disciplined recitation and devotion are themselves a form of worship.
Bhīṣma addresses the supreme deity as ‘best of the gods’ and describes how Sāma-chanters and Veda-scholars repeatedly intone characteristic Sāman syllables and thereby sing the deity’s greatness without interruption.