Shloka 22

Guru’s Instruction on Dream, Mind, Guṇas, and Knowing Brahman

Svapna–Manas–Guṇa–Brahma-vicāra

Devanagari script

विननाद महानादं क्षोभयन्‌ दैत्यदानवान्‌ | संनादिता येन लोका: सर्वाश्वैव दिशो दश

Transliteration

vinanāda mahānādaṁ kṣobhayann daityadānavān | saṁnāditā yena lokāḥ sarvāś caiva diśo daśa ||

Translation

تب اُس نے دیووں اور دانوؤں کو ہلا کر رکھ دینے والی ایک عظیم گرج دار للکار بلند کی؛ جس سے تمام جہان اور دسوں سمتیں گونج اٹھیں۔

Word by Word

• {'vinanāda': 'roared, sounded loudly (intensive of √nad, ‘to sound’)', 'mahānādam': 'a great roar

• mighty sound', 'kṣobhayann': 'agitating, throwing into turmoil, shaking (causative participle of √kṣubh)', 'daitya': 'Daitya

• a class of demons, often adversaries of the gods', 'dānava': 'Dānava

• another class of demons, often paired with Daityas', 'saṁnāditāḥ': 'made to resound

• reverberated', 'yena': 'by which (instrumental relative pronoun)', 'lokāḥ': 'worlds

• realms of beings', 'sarvāḥ': 'all (feminine plural

• here qualifying ‘diśaḥ’)', 'ca eva': 'and indeed, and also (emphatic conjunction)', 'diśaḥ': 'directions, quarters', 'daśa': 'ten'}

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Bhishma
• Daityas
• Dānavas
• Lokas (the worlds)
• Daśa diśaḥ (ten directions)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

When adharma becomes disruptive, dharma may be upheld not only through counsel but also through decisive, awe-inspiring assertion of rightful order; the verse symbolizes the moral universe responding to divine authority that restrains destructive forces.

What is happening in the narrative?

A supremely powerful being roars with tremendous force, causing the demon hosts (Daityas and Dānavas) to tremble and making all the worlds and the ten directions reverberate with the sound.