Shloka 158
Adhyāya 284: Tapas as a Corrective to Household Attachment
Parāśara’s Instruction
विश्वकृद् विश्वकृतां वरेण्यस्त्वं विश्ववाहो विश्वरूपस्तेजस्वी विश्वतोमुख: । चन्द्रादित्यौ चक्षुषी ते हृदयं च पितामह:
viśvakṛd viśvakṛtāṁ vareṇyas tvaṁ viśvavāho viśvarūpas tejasvī viśvatomukhaḥ | candrādityau cakṣuṣī te hṛdayaṁ ca pitāmahaḥ ||
भीष्म म्हणाले— आपण विश्वाचे कर्ते आहात आणि सृष्टी घडविणाऱ्यांमध्ये श्रेष्ठ आहात. आपण जगाचा भार वाहणारे, विश्वरूप, तेजस्वी आणि सर्वतोमुख आहात. चंद्र व सूर्य हे आपले नेत्र आहेत आणि पितामह ब्रह्मा हे आपले हृदय आहे.
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse teaches a devotional-metaphysical vision: the Supreme is the cosmic person whose body is the universe itself. Recognizing the Sun and Moon as His eyes and Brahmā as His heart frames all cosmic functions as expressions of one divine reality, encouraging reverence, humility, and dharmic living grounded in the awareness of divine immanence.
In Śānti Parva, Bhīṣma instructs and consoles Yudhiṣṭhira after the war. Here Bhīṣma offers a stuti (hymn of praise) describing the Lord’s all-pervading cosmic form, using grand identifications (Sun/Moon as eyes, Brahmā as heart) to convey the deity’s supremacy and omnipresence.