Varaha Purana 5.34: Adhyaya 5, Shloka 34
Reconciliation of Action and Knowledge: Offering All Acts to Nārāyaṇa and the Hymn to the Yajña-Puruṣa
आत्मा स प्रकृतिस्थश्च भूतानां संश्रयो भवेत् । भूय एषा जगत्सृष्टिस्तत्रैव जगतो भवेत् ॥ ५.३४ ॥
ātmā sa prakṛtisthaś ca bhūtānāṁ saṁśrayo bhavet | bhūya eṣā jagatsṛṣṭis tatraiva jagato bhavet || 5.34 ||
ఆ ఆత్మ ప్రకృతిలో స్థితమై భూతజీవులకు ఆధారమవుతుంది; మరల ఈ జగత్సృష్టి ఉద్భవిస్తుంది—అందులోనే జగత్తు అవతరిస్తుంది।
Varāha (default, as speaker not explicitly specified in fragment)
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It reflects a Purāṇic synthesis of cosmological discourse using terminology associated with classical Indian metaphysics (notably Ātman and Prakṛti), illustrating how Purāṇas transmit philosophical vocabulary within narrative teaching contexts.
No geographic location is named in this verse; the content is primarily metaphysical/cosmological rather than topographical.
The verse does not present a direct ethical injunction; its philosophical instruction emphasizes the Self as the sustaining ground of beings and frames creation as a recurring emergence grounded in an underlying principle.
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