Shloka 53

Devanagari script

तत्र च त्रितयं दृष्टं भविष्यति न संशय: । समस्ता हि वयं देवास्तस्य देहे वसामहे,हम सब देवता उनके श्रीविग्रहमें निवास करते हैं। अतः: उनका दर्शन करनेसे तीनों देवताओं (ब्रह्मा, विष्णु और शिव)-का दर्शन हो जाता है, इसमें संशय नहीं है

Transliteration

tatra ca tritayaṁ dṛṣṭaṁ bhaviṣyati na saṁśayaḥ | samastā hi vayaṁ devās tasya dehe vasāmahe ||

Translation

เมื่อได้เห็นพระองค์แล้ว ย่อมได้เห็นตรีเทพด้วย—หาใช่มีข้อสงสัยไม่; เพราะเหล่าเทพทั้งปวงล้วนสถิตอยู่ในพระวรกายของพระองค์

Word by Word

तत्रthere

चand

त्रितयम्the triad (group of three)

दृष्टम्seen

भविष्यतिwill be / will occur

नnot

संशयःdoubt

समस्ताःall (entire)

हिindeed / for

वयम्we

देवाःgods

तस्यof him / his

देहेin (his) body

वसामहेwe dwell / reside

Speaker

ईश्वर उवाच

Characters & Entities

Īśvara

devāḥ (the gods)

tritaya (Brahmā, Viṣṇu, Śiva)

tasya deha (his body)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse teaches the unity of divine presence: when the divine is truly embodied in a single revered form, beholding that form is equivalent to beholding the triad of Brahmā, Viṣṇu, and Śiva. It emphasizes faith (freedom from saṁśaya) and a non-sectarian vision of divinity.

What is happening in the narrative?

Īśvara declares that in the person being spoken about, all the gods reside. Hence, a devotee who gains his darśana simultaneously gains the darśana of the three principal deities, and this is asserted as certain (na saṁśayaḥ).