Shloka 62
Adhyaya 57 — The Ninefold Divisions of Bharata: Mountains, Rivers, and Peoples
प्रयाति कर्मभूर्ब्रह्मन् नान्या लोकेषु विद्यते । देवानामपि विप्रर्षे सदैष मनोरथः ॥
prayāti karmabhūr brahman nānyā lokeṣu vidyate | devānām api viprarṣe sadaiṣa manorathaḥ ||
हे ब्राह्मणा! हीच कर्मभूमी आहे; लोकांत यासारखी दुसरी नाही. हे मुनिश्रेष्ठा! देवांनाही हीच नित्य प्रिय अभिलाषा आहे.
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FAQs
The verse elevates embodied life as spiritually strategic: even devas lack the same scope for transformative effort, so one should not waste human opportunity.
Cosmological anthropology within manvantara/yuga framing: it distinguishes realms by their karmic functionality, a common Purāṇic explanatory layer.
‘Karmabhūmi’ implies the rare conjunction of freedom and limitation: enough constraint to generate tapas, enough agency to redirect destiny.