Shloka 153

नागैः सह ब्राह्मणस्य अतिथिधर्म-व्रतसंवादः | The Brahmin’s Vow and the Nāgas’ Hospitality Appeal

Devanagari script

मनोभूतास्ततो भूत्वा प्रद्युम्न॑ प्रविशन्त्युत । फिर उनसे भी मुक्त होकर वे अनिरुद्धविग्रहमें स्थित होते हैं। फिर मनोमय होकर प्रद्युम्नमें प्रवेश करते हैं

Transliteration

manobhūtās tato bhūtvā pradyumnaṁ praviśanty uta |

Translation

പിന്നീട് അവർ മനോമയരായി പ്രദ്യുമ്നനിൽ പ്രവേശിക്കുന്നു. ഇത് സ്ഥൂലബന്ധങ്ങളിൽ നിന്നു കൂടുതൽ സൂക്ഷ്മാവസ്ഥയിലേക്കു നീങ്ങി, ഒടുവിൽ ദിവ്യതത്ത്വത്തിൽ ലയിക്കുന്നതിനെ സൂചിപ്പിക്കുന്നു.

Word by Word

मनोभूताःhaving become mind-formed / mental

ततःthen; thereafter; from that (state)

भूत्वाhaving become

प्रद्युम्नम्Pradyumna (into Pradyumna)

प्रविशन्तिthey enter

उतand; also; indeed

Speaker

नारद उवाच

Characters & Entities

Nārada

Pradyumna

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse conveys a stepwise interiorization: as one becomes free from grosser limitations, one assumes a subtler, mind-based mode of being and is absorbed into a higher divine principle (here named Pradyumna). It points to liberation as progressive dissolution of individuality into increasingly subtle realities.

What is happening in the narrative?

Narada is describing a cosmological/spiritual process of merging: certain beings, after attaining a subtle mental state (manobhūta), ‘enter’ Pradyumna—language that indicates absorption into a higher level of manifestation or divinity within a graded hierarchy.