Shloka 12

अव्यक्त–प्रकृति–इन्द्रियविचारः

The Unmanifest, Prakṛtis, and the Sense-Complex

Devanagari script

यथा भानुगतं तेजो मणि: शुद्ध: समाधिना । आदत्ते राजशार्दूल तथा योग: प्रवर्तते

Transliteration

yathā bhānugataṃ tejo maṇiḥ śuddhaḥ samādhinā | ādatte rājaśārdūla tathā yogaḥ pravartate nṛpaśreṣṭha ||

Translation

Парашара сказал: «Как чистый солнечный камень, посредством должного сосредоточения (самадхи), вбирает сияние, пребывающее в солнце, так и йога совершается, о тигр среди царей, о лучший из правителей: через самадхи практикующий принимает и постигает природу Брахмана».

Word by Word

• यथा: just as
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: यथा

• भानुगतम्: gone into / belonging to the sun
• भानुगतम्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: भानुगत
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Singular

• तेजः: splendour, radiance
• तेजः: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: तेजस्
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Singular

• मणिः: gem (sun-stone)
• मणिः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: मणि
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• शुद्धः: pure
• Type: Adjective
• Root: शुद्ध
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• समाधिना: by concentration (samadhi)
• समाधिना: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: समाधि
• Form: Masculine, Instrumental, Singular

• आदत्ते: takes, receives
• Type: Verb
• Root: आ + दा
• Form: Present, Third, Singular, Atmanepada

• राजशार्दूल: O tiger among kings
• Type: Noun
• Root: राजशार्दूल
• Form: Masculine, Vocative, Singular

• तथा: so, in the same way
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तथा

• योगः: yoga (discipline/union)
• योगः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: योग
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• प्रवर्तते: proceeds, comes into operation
• Type: Verb
• Root: प्र + वृत्
• Form: Present, Third, Singular, Atmanepada

• नृपश्रेष्ठ: O best of kings
• Type: Noun
• Root: नृपश्रेष्ठ
• Form: Masculine, Vocative, Singular

Speaker

पराशर उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Parāśara
• rājaśārdūla (addressed king)
• nṛpaśreṣṭha (addressed king)
• bhānu (sun)
• maṇi (sūryakānta sunstone)
• samādhi
• yoga
• Brahman (implied by the traditional gloss/meaning)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Yoga becomes effective through samādhi: when the mind is purified and steadily absorbed, it can ‘receive’ or directly realize the highest reality (Brahman), just as a pure sunstone draws the sun’s radiance.

What is happening in the narrative?

Parāśara is instructing a king (addressed honorifically as rājaśārdūla/nṛpaśreṣṭha) on the inner mechanics of spiritual practice, using a natural metaphor to explain how concentrated meditation enables realization.