Manvantaras, Indras, Saptarṣis, and the Seven Sustaining Manifestations; Vyāsa as Nārāyaṇa
या सा नारायणतनुः प्रद्युम्नाख्या मुनीश्वराः / तया संमोहयेद् विश्वं सदेवासुरमानुषम्
yā sā nārāyaṇatanuḥ pradyumnākhyā munīśvarāḥ / tayā saṃmohayed viśvaṃ sadevāsuramānuṣam
Hỡi các bậc hiền thánh tối thượng, hình thân của Nārāyaṇa mang danh Pradyumna—chính nhờ năng lực ấy, Ngài làm mê hoặc toàn thể vũ trụ, gồm cả chư thiên, asura và loài người.
Lord Kurma (Vishnu) addressing the sages
Primary Rasa: adbhuta
Secondary Rasa: bhayanaka
It implies that the Supreme (Nārāyaṇa) manifests powers that can veil true knowledge; realizing the Self requires discerning the Lord beyond His deluding potency (moha/māyā).
The verse points to the need for viveka (discriminative insight) and steady contemplation to cross moha—principles aligned with the Kurma Purana’s yoga-oriented teaching: restraint of the mind, devotion to the Lord, and knowledge that pierces māyā.
By presenting the Lord’s cosmic power of delusion as a universal principle, it supports the Purana’s synthetic stance: the one Supreme Lord—named as Nārāyaṇa here and praised as Īśvara elsewhere—governs the same world-process that Shaiva and Vaishnava traditions describe.