Varaha Purana 129.32: Adhyaya 129, Shloka 32
Initiation for the Four Social Orders, Sandhyā Mantra Procedure, and the Merit of Offering Water in a Copper Vessel
Uttara Bhāga (traditional division; chapter-level placement may vary by recension) · Bhakti–Vara-saṁvāda (devotion and boon-request dialogue)
चक्रेण वधमिच्छामि त्वया मुक्तेन केशव ॥
cakreṇa vadham icchāmi tvayā muktena keśava ||
chakreNa vadhamichChAmi tvayA muktena keshava
హే కేశవా! నీవు విడిచిన చక్రముచే నా వధ కావాలని నేను కోరుచున్నాను।
Guḍākeśa (devotee figure in the passage)
Grant me death by your Sudarśana (discus)—a death sanctified by direct divine agency.
A devotee may seek not longevity but a sanctified end—union with the Lord’s will—treating death as a gateway when held in devotion.
Practice remembrance of the Lord and cultivate detachment so that the end of life is faced with clarity, surrender, and dharmic readiness.
Sudarśana signifies divine ‘right vision’ and the cutting away of avidyā; requesting death by the discus frames liberation as removal of bondage by the Lord’s own power.
Discus as the wheel of ṛta/dharma and time (kāla-cakra) that severs impurity; the Lord’s release (mukta) implies grace initiating the final severance.
Mokṣa as the destruction of ignorance by divine knowledge/grace; ‘death’ here can be read as ego-death and termination of saṃsāra’s hold.
Keśava epithet connects to Viṣṇu/Kṛṣṇa identity broadly, but no Mathurā-specific allusion.
Varāha Purāṇa 129.34 (request for enduring bhakti as primary boon)
FAQs
It shows an extreme boon-request motif found in some Purāṇic narratives, where proximity to the divine is expressed through a request for a divinely mediated death.
None is specified in this line.
The verse foregrounds radical surrender; in archival terms it marks a narrative turn where devotion is expressed without worldly gain.
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