Kurma Purana — Uttara Bhaga, Shloka 18
Devadāru (Dāruvana) Forest: The Delusion of Ritual Pride, the Liṅga Crisis, and the Teaching of Jñāna–Pāśupata Yoga
आसामथैषामपि वासुदेवो मायी मुरारिर्मनसि प्रविष्टः / करोति भोगान् मनसि प्रवृत्तिं मायानुभूयन्त इतिव सम्यक्
āsāmathaiṣāmapi vāsudevo māyī murārirmanasi praviṣṭaḥ / karoti bhogān manasi pravṛttiṃ māyānubhūyanta itiva samyak
Đối với những hữu tình ấy cũng vậy, Vāsudeva—Murāri, bậc vận dụng Māyā—đi vào trong tâm, khiến phát sinh các thọ dụng (bhoga) và sự hướng ngoại của tâm. Vì thế họ trải nghiệm Māyā, như thể, đúng theo cơ chế vận hành của nó.
Lord Kurma (Vishnu) instructing the sages (contextual teaching on mind, Maya, and inner rulership)
Primary Rasa: shanta
Secondary Rasa: adbhuta
FAQs
It presents Vāsudeva as the inner controller who, by entering the mind, governs experience and mental activity—showing the Supreme as immanent within cognition while remaining the Lord of Māyā.
The verse points to the yogic task of understanding and restraining manas-pravṛtti (outgoing mental movement) and recognizing bhoga as Māyā-driven experience—key for vairāgya and steadiness of mind in Yoga.
By emphasizing the Lord’s immanence and Māyā-governance (a theme shared across Śaiva and Vaiṣṇava Yoga-śāstra), it supports the Purāṇa’s non-sectarian synthesis: one Supreme reality functions as inner ruler beyond name-forms.