Shloka 19
Praise of Devotion to Viṣṇu
The Supremacy of Hari’s Name over All Tīrthas
विष्णुप्रसादनिर्माल्यं भुक्त्वा धृत्वा च मस्तके । विष्णुरेव भवेन्मर्त्यो यमशोकविनाशनः
viṣṇuprasādanirmālyaṃ bhuktvā dhṛtvā ca mastake | viṣṇureva bhavenmartyo yamaśokavināśanaḥ
ผู้เป็นมรรตย์เมื่อได้เสวยนิรมาลยะอันเป็นปรสาทของพระวิษณุ และน้อมวางไว้เหนือเศียร ย่อมประหนึ่งเป็นพระวิษณุเอง ผู้ทำลายความโศกแห่งยมะ (ความตายและการพิพากษา)
Not specified in the provided excerpt (context needed from Adhyaya 50 framing dialogue).
Concept: Honoring Viṣṇu’s prasāda (eating and placing on the head) grants identity-with-the-Lord in the sense of His protection and purity, dissolving fear of death and judgment.
Application: Receive prasāda with reverence; avoid treating worship as mere formality—let grace reshape habits, speech, and ethics, reducing anxiety about mortality through lived surrender.
Primary Rasa: shanta
Secondary Rasa: adbhuta
Type: temple
Visual Art Cues: {"scene_description":"Inside a lamp-lit shrine, a devotee receives Viṣṇu’s nirmālya—flower petals and sacred food—first tasting it, then touching it to the crown with closed eyes. Behind, a shadowy figure of Yama and his attendants dissolves into mist as a protective aura of conch-and-disc light surrounds the devotee.","primary_figures":["Viṣṇu (murti or radiant presence)","devotee receiving prasāda","Yama (fading, symbolic)","temple priest (optional)"],"setting":"Temple sanctum with garlanded Viṣṇu icon, brass lamps, incense smoke, and a small offering plate of prasāda and flowers.","lighting_mood":"temple lamp-lit","color_palette":["deep indigo","lamp-flame amber","marigold orange","pearl white","antique gold"],"tanjore_prompt":"Tanjore painting style: Viṣṇu in sanctum with tall crown, conch and discus, heavy gold leaf halo; foreground devotee tasting prasāda and touching nirmālya to the head; ornate pillars and arch, gem-like highlights on ornaments, gold leaf on lamps and garlands; Yama rendered as a faint dark silhouette dissolving at the border.","pahari_prompt":"Pahari miniature style: intimate indoor shrine scene with delicate lines; devotee seated respectfully, receiving a small leaf-bowl of prasāda; soft chiaroscuro from oil lamps; outside the doorway, a dark Yama-form recedes into night; refined facial expressions conveying relief and surrender.","kerala_mural_prompt":"Kerala mural style: frontal Viṣṇu icon with bold outlines and stylized eyes; devotee in profile lifting prasāda to lips and crown; rhythmic lamp motifs and floral bands; Yama depicted in the lower corner as a subdued figure fading into the mural’s background pigments.","pichwai_prompt":"Pichwai cloth painting style: central Viṣṇu/Śrīnāthajī-like shrine with elaborate floral borders; devotees offering and receiving prasāda; lotus and conch motifs repeating; deep blue ground with gold highlights; a symbolic Yama figure outside the sanctum boundary, kept at bay by a ring of lotus petals."}
Audio Atmosphere: {"recitation_mood":"devotional","suggested_raga":"Bhairavi","pace":"slow-meditative","voice_tone":"reverent-soft","sound_elements":["temple bells","conch shell (soft)","incense crackle","low drone (tanpura)","silence after cadence"]}
Sandhi Resolution Notes: विष्णुरेव→विष्णुः एव; भवेन्मर्त्यो→भवेत् मर्त्यः (त्+म→न् म्); अन्यत्र सन्धिः न्यूनः।
FAQs
It recommends honoring Viṣṇu’s prasāda/nirmālya by consuming it and reverently placing it on one’s head as a devotional act.
It presents a simple, embodied devotional observance—reverence for prasāda—as spiritually transformative, linking devotion to liberation from fear and grief around death.
To treat sacred offerings with faith and humility; accepting what is offered to Viṣṇu as grace is portrayed as purifying and protective, diminishing anxiety about death (Yama) and its sorrows.