प्रचेतसां तपः तथा विष्णु-स्तुतिः
The Pracetases’ Ocean Tapas and Hymn to Vishnu
अदीर्घह्रस्वम् अस्थूलम् अनण्व् अग्र्यम् अलोहितम् अस्नेहच्छायम् अतनुम् असक्तम् असमीरणम्
adīrghahrasvam asthūlam anaṇv agryam alohitam asnehacchāyam atanum asaktam asamīraṇam
न दीर्घं न ह्रस्वं न स्थूलं नाणु, नाग्र्यं न लोहितम्; अस्नेहच्छायम् अतनुम् असक्तम् असमीरणम्।
Sage Parāśara (teaching Maitreya)
Speaker: Parasara
Topic: Apophatic description (neti-neti style) of the Supreme beyond spatial measure and physical properties
Teaching: Philosophical
Quality: authoritative
Concept: The Supreme is beyond all physical predicates—size, mass, minuteness, color, shadow, contact, attachment, and motion—hence not an object among objects.
Vedantic Theme: Brahman
Application: In meditation, negate limiting images and rest awareness in the non-objectifiable ground; let this reduce attachment to bodily and sensory identifications.
Vishishtadvaita: Negations deny material limitation (prakṛta-dharmas) while leaving room for the Lord’s supramundane auspicious nature affirmed elsewhere in the Purāṇa.
Vishnu Form: Para-Brahman
Bhakti Type: Shanta
It denies spatial measurement and bodily limitation, asserting Vishnu as the unconditioned Supreme Reality beyond form and dimension.
By a chain of negations—gross/subtle, color, shadow, attachment, and motion—he indicates that the Supreme is not an object within nature but the ground of nature.
Vishnu is presented as Para Brahman: transcendent, untouched by material qualities, yet the ultimate sovereign principle underlying creation and cosmic order.