Shloka 37
Adhyaya 53 — Rudrasarga and the Measure of the Manvantaras: Svayambhuva Manu, Priyavrata’s Line, and the Seven Dvipas
विपर्ययो न तेष्वस्ति जरा मृत्युभयं न च ।
धर्माधर्मौ न तेष्वास्तां नोत्तमाधममध्यमाः ॥
viparyayo na teṣv asti jarā-mṛtyu-bhayaṃ na ca /
dharmādharmau na teṣv āstāṃ nottamādhamamadhyamāḥ
ಅವರಲ್ಲಿ ಯಾವುದೇ ವಿಪರ್ಯಾಸ (ಪತನ) ಇಲ್ಲ; ಜರೆಯೂ ಇಲ್ಲ, ಮರಣಭಯವೂ ಇಲ್ಲ. ಅವರಿಗೆ ಧರ್ಮವೂ ಇಲ್ಲ, ಅಧರ್ಮವೂ ಇಲ್ಲ; ಉತ್ತಮ-ಅಧಮ-ಮಧ್ಯಮ ಎಂಬ ಭೇದವೂ ಇಲ್ಲ.
FAQs
The verse distinguishes between karma-governed realms (where dharma/adharma operate) and perfected/pleasure realms where such dualities are not salient; it does not cancel ethics for humans but situates ethics within mortality and consequence.
‘Sthāna’—describing the conditions of beings in different cosmic regions.
Absence of ‘dharma/adharma’ and social ranking can symbolize a non-dual state beyond comparative identity; old age and death represent time-bound egoic limitation, here portrayed as transcended.