Shloka 38
Aṣṭāvakra’s Visit to Kubera: Hospitality, Temptation, and the Ethics of Restraint (अष्टावक्र-वैश्रवणोपाख्यानम्)
गर्ग उवाच चतुःषष्ट्यड्रमददत् कलाज्ञानं ममाद्भुतम् | सरस्वत्यास्तटे तुष्टो मनोयज्ञेन पाण्डव
garga uvāca catuḥṣaṣṭy-aḍramadadat kalājñānaṃ mamādbhutam | sarasvatyās taṭe tuṣṭo manoyajñena pāṇḍava ||
गर्ग उवाच—पाण्डव, सरस्वत्यास्तटे मनोयज्ञेन शर्वं प्रसाद्याहम्। तेन तुष्टः स महादेवो मम चतुःषष्टिकलानामद्भुतं ज्ञानं ददौ॥
गर्ग उवाच
Educational Q&A
Inner worship (mānasa-yajña) and sincere devotion can be as spiritually efficacious as external ritual, leading to the bestowal of knowledge and divine favor.
Garga recounts to a Pāṇḍava that he performed a mental sacrifice on the Sarasvatī’s bank, pleased Śiva, and received from him extraordinary knowledge of the sixty-four arts as a boon.