Varaha Purana 5.22: Adhyaya 5, Shloka 22
Reconciliation of Action and Knowledge: Offering All Acts to Nārāyaṇa and the Hymn to the Yajña-Puruṣa
परमात्मा त्वयं भूतैः क्रीडते भगवान् स्वयम् । क्रीता मृदा बलीवर्द्धास्तद्वदेतन्न संशयः ॥ ५.२२ ॥
paramātmā tvayaṃ bhūtaiḥ krīḍate bhagavān svayam | krītā mṛdā balīvarddhās tadvad etan na saṃśayaḥ || 5.22 ||
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Varāha (default, based on primary dialogue framework)
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It illustrates a common Purāṇic literary strategy: conveying metaphysical claims (the Supreme Self and divine agency) through everyday economic and agrarian imagery, reflecting the social world in which such texts circulated.
No specific geographic location is named in this verse; it is primarily philosophical and metaphorical rather than topographical.
The verse emphasizes a philosophical instruction about divine agency and the relative value of worldly transactions, using a rural metaphor to suggest that conventional measures of value and control are secondary to the overarching reality of the Supreme Self.
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