Varaha Purana 136.25: Adhyaya 136, Shloka 25
A Sūtra-like Manual of Expiations for Ritual Transgressions
Pūrva Bhāga · Śaiva–Vaiṣṇava Dialogue (Yoga, Māyā, Restoration of Awareness)
तन्ममाचक्ष्व तत्त्वेन यत्पृष्टोऽसि मया भवान् ॥ स्मर योगं च मायां च पश्य विष्णोर्महात्मनः
tan mamācakṣva tattvena yat pṛṣṭo'si mayā bhavān || smara yogaṃ ca māyāṃ ca paśya viṣṇor mahātmanaḥ
tanmamAchakShva tattvena yatpRRiShTosi mayA bhavAn || smara yogaM cha mAyAM cha pashya viShNormahAtmanaH
ฉะนั้น จงบอกข้าตามสัจจะและตามตัตตวะในสิ่งที่ข้าถามท่าน จงระลึกถึงโยคะและมายา แล้วจงประจักษ์โยคศักติและมายาของพระวิษณุผู้มหาตมัน
Varāha
Implicitly: to state the truth of what was asked, grounded in remembering Viṣṇu’s yoga and māyā (i.e., the metaphysical basis behind the query).
Tattva is grasped by truthful speech and by remembering Viṣṇu’s yoga and māyā as the operative principles behind experience.
Before judging events or persons, recollect the divine governance (yoga) and the limits of appearances (māyā); then speak only what is true and beneficial.
Indirect: Varāha speaks as Viṣṇu’s avatāra, urging truthful disclosure and contemplation of Viṣṇu’s yoga and māyā.
Varāha’s voice functions as the revealer of tattva: the avatāra points beyond form to Viṣṇu’s yoga-māyā as the mechanism of cosmic manifestation and re-stabilization.
Yoga-māyā language aligns with Vedāntic accounts of īśvara’s upādhi: māyā as the power that projects names/forms while the great-souled Viṣṇu remains the ground of reality.
Speak truthfully and interpret events through the lens of Viṣṇu’s yoga (discipline/sovereign power) and māyā (cosmic projection).
Truth-aligned speech and right vision lead to clarity and restoration of order; ignoring it sustains delusion and ethical confusion.
Varāha Purāṇa: recurring yoga-māyā framing in cosmological instruction passages (general motif)
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It highlights key doctrinal vocabulary—yoga and māyā—used across Purāṇic and philosophical texts to explain cognition, power, and cosmic appearance.
None; the verse is doctrinal rather than topographical.
It instructs truthful speech (tattvena) and disciplined recollection (smara) as prerequisites for regaining discernment.
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