Shloka 25
अध्याय ३३७ — ज्ञानमार्ग-वैविध्यप्रश्नः तथा व्यासस्य नारायणोद्भवकथा
Systems of Knowledge and Vyāsa’s Nārāyaṇa-Origin
कथं पश्येम हि वयं देवं नारायणं त्विति । अथ व्रतस्यावभूथे वागुवाचाशरीरिणी
kathaṁ paśyema hi vayaṁ devaṁ nārāyaṇaṁ tv iti | atha vratasya avabhūthe vāg uvāca aśarīriṇī ||
ഭീഷ്മൻ പറഞ്ഞു—“നാം ദേവനായ നാരായണനെ എങ്ങനെ ദർശിക്കുമെന്നു?” അപ്പോൾ വ്രതത്തിന്റെ അവഭൃതസ്നാനസമയത്ത് ഒരു അശരീരവാണി ഉച്ചരിച്ചു.
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights the human limitation in directly perceiving the supreme (Nārāyaṇa) and suggests that divine revelation often comes through grace, especially at moments of ritual and moral culmination—here, the completion of a vow marked by the avabhṛtha.
A question is raised—how they might behold Nārāyaṇa. Immediately after, at the concluding rite of the vow (avabhṛtha), a disembodied voice speaks, indicating a divine or supernatural response to the seekers’ longing.