Shloka 41
सोमचक्रः, ग्रह-रथाः, ध्रुवबन्धनं, शिशुमारसंनिवेशः, विष्णु-सर्वात्मकता
Moon, Planets, Dhruva-Tethering, Śiśumāra, and Vishnu as All
वस्त्व् अस्ति किं कुत्रचिद् आदिमध्य पर्यन्तहीनं सततैकरूपम् यच् चान्यथात्वं द्विज याति भूयो न तत् तथा तत्र कुतो हि तत्त्वम्
vastv asti kiṃ kutracid ādimadhya paryantahīnaṃ satataikarūpam yac cānyathātvaṃ dvija yāti bhūyo na tat tathā tatra kuto hi tattvam
ಎಲ್ಲಿ ಆದಿ-ಮಧ್ಯ-ಅಂತ್ಯವಿಲ್ಲದ, ಸದಾ ಏಕರೂಪವಾದ ನಿಜವಾದ ವಸ್ತು ಯಾವುದಾದರೂ ಇದೆಯೇ? ಏಕೆಂದರೆ ಮತ್ತೆ ಬದಲಾವಣೆಗೆ ಒಳಗಾಗುವುದು, ಓ ದ್ವಿಜ, ಅದು ನಿಜವಾಗಿ ಹಾಗಲ್ಲ; ಬದಲಾವಣೆ ಇರುವಲ್ಲಿ ಸ್ಥಿರ ತತ್ತ್ವ ಹೇಗೆ ಇರಲಿದೆ?
Sage Parāśara (teaching Maitreya)
Speaker: Parasara
Topic: Criterion of true reality (tattva): that which is beginningless, endless, and unchanging; critique of changeful entities
Teaching: Philosophical
Quality: authoritative
Concept: Whatever undergoes change cannot be the ultimate tattva; true reality must be beginningless, endless, and ever the same.
Vedantic Theme: Maya
Application: Use impermanence as a daily meditation: observe change in body, moods, and possessions to cultivate detachment and turn toward the unchanging Lord.
Vishishtadvaita: Encourages discrimination between transient modes and the eternal ground; in Viśiṣṭādvaita, the unchanging tattva is Viṣṇu/Paramātman while changing cit-acit remain real but dependent.
Vishnu Form: Para-Brahman (philosophical)
FAQs
This verse argues that whatever undergoes alteration cannot be the final, abiding truth; it points toward a highest principle—identified in Vaishnava reading as Vishnu—whose nature is constant beyond temporal phases.
Parāśara frames change as a marker of conditioned existence: if a thing repeatedly becomes otherwise, it cannot claim the status of ultimate tattva, which must be steady and self-consistent.
The verse supports the Vaishnava conclusion that the Supreme (Vishnu/Nārāyaṇa) is the enduring ground of reality, while mutable phenomena belong to the realm of transformation within cosmic order.