Varaha Purana 142.39: Adhyaya 142, Shloka 39
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Uttara Bhāga · Soteriology (Result of Karma and Devotion)
कर्मणा यान्ति मत्स्थानं यान्ति मद्गाननिष्ठिताः ॥ यान्ति योगविदः स्थानं नास्ति चान्या परा गतिः ॥
karmaṇā yānti matsthānaṃ yānti madgānaniṣṭhitāḥ || yānti yogavidaḥ sthānaṃ nāsti cānyā parā gatiḥ ||
karmaNA yAnti matsthAnaM yAnti madgAnaniShThitAH || yAnti yogavidaH sthAnaM nAsti chAnyA parA gatiH
കർമത്തിലൂടെ അവർ എന്റെ ധാമം പ്രാപിക്കുന്നു; എന്റെ സ്തുതിഗാനത്തിൽ നിഷ്ഠരായവരും അതേ ധാമം പ്രാപിക്കുന്നു. യോഗവിദർ തങ്ങളുടെ സ്ഥാനം പ്രാപിക്കുന്നു; ഇതിന് അപ്പുറം മറ്റൊരു പരമഗതി ഇല്ല।
Sandhi Notes
- मत्स्थानं = मत् + स्थानम्
- मद्गाननिष्ठिताः = मत् + गान + निष्ठिताः
- नास्ति = न + अस्ति
- चान्या = च + अन्या
Varāha
Contemplative, seeking orientation about highest goal
Multiple disciplines—karma, bhakti (gāna), and yoga—lead to definitive higher attainments; beyond these there is no superior ‘gati’.
Choose a stable primary discipline aligned with temperament; integrate praise/remembering with duty; pursue yoga with clarity about its intended fruit.
Varāha defines multiple salvific routes (karma, kīrtana/bhakti, yoga) and their destinations, instructing Earth on spiritual cosmology of attainment.
Varāha as īśvara who apportions ‘stations’ (sthāna) according to sādhana: action consecrated to him, praise-singing devotion, and yogic realization each correspond to ordered cosmic outcomes.
Karma as yajña leading to ‘mat-sthāna’; gāna/kīrtana as offering of voice; yoga as inner sacrifice yielding a distinct yogin’s state.
Affirms graded soteriology within a theistic frame: devotion and consecrated action culminate in the Lord’s abode; yogic knowledge yields its own ‘sthāna’—suggesting sāyujya/kaivalya-type distinctions depending on doctrine.
Foreshadows later Vaiṣṇava bhakti idiom (kīrtana/gāna) strongly associated with Kṛṣṇa traditions, though not explicitly Mathurā here.
Varāha Purāṇa 142.42 (citta-yoga/karma-yoga); Varāha Purāṇa 142.44 (citta as basis of jñāna/yoga/sāṃkhya)
FAQs
It presents multiple disciplined approaches (action, praise/recitation, yoga) in a Purāṇic synthesis characteristic of later Sanskrit religio-philosophical literature.
No physical geography is named; the verse speaks of a metaphysical 'abode/station' (sthāna).
It valorizes disciplined action, devotional steadiness, and yogic knowledge as legitimate means toward the highest goal described by the speaker.
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