Shloka 32
Kālayavana’s Rise, Dvārakā’s Founding, and Muchukunda’s Awakening (Śaraṇāgati & Brahman-Stuti)
बुद्धिर् अव्याकृतं प्राणाः प्राणेशस् त्वं तथा पुमान् पुंसः परतरं यच् च व्याप्य् अजन्मविकल्पवत्
buddhir avyākṛtaṃ prāṇāḥ prāṇeśas tvaṃ tathā pumān puṃsaḥ parataraṃ yac ca vyāpy ajanmavikalpavat
तूच बुद्धी, तूच अव्याकृत; तूच प्राण आणि प्राणेश्वर आहेस. तू पुरुष आहेस आणि पुरुषापलीकडील परतत्त्वही; सर्वव्यापी, अजन्मा, विकल्प-भेदरहित स्थित आहेस.
Sage Parāśara (teaching Maitreya)
FAQs
It presents Vishnu as both the inner faculty of knowing (buddhi) and the unmanifest ground of nature (avyākṛta), implying that consciousness and the causal basis of the cosmos are upheld and pervaded by Him.
Parāśara frames Vishnu as the puruṣa (the conscious principle) and also as that which surpasses all limited personhood—an ultimate reality that cannot be confined to any single category of being.
It emphasizes Vishnu’s transcendence: though He pervades all phenomena, He remains aja (unborn) and not bound by conceptual oppositions, supporting the Purana’s view of Vishnu as the sovereign, supreme foundation of all existence.