Shloka 30
Chapter 7: Dvīpa–Varṣa–Meru-varṇana
Description of the Dvīpa, Varṣas, and Mount Meru
ब्रह्मलोकच्युता: सर्वे सर्वे सर्वेषु साधव: । तपस्तप्यन्ति ते तीव्र भवन्ति हार्ध्वरेतस: । रक्षणार्थ तु भूतानां प्रविशन्ते दिवाकरम्
sañjaya uvāca |
brhmalokacyutāḥ sarve sarve sarveṣu sādhavaḥ |
tapastapyanti te tīvraṃ bhavanti ūrdhvaretasaḥ |
rakṣaṇārthaṃ tu bhūtānāṃ praviśanti divākaram |
三阇耶说道：“他们全都是从梵天界（Brahmaloka）降下的有德之众，性本贤善，对一切众生皆以慈和相待。他们修行严酷苦行，作为坚定的梵行者（ūrdhvaretaḥ）守持清净，摄护精气。随后，为护佑万类，他们进入太阳之中，成为其维系世界之力的一部分。”
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse links personal discipline (tapas and brahmacarya/ūrdhvaretas) with universal welfare: the power generated by ethical self-restraint is portrayed as sustaining and protecting all beings, even to the point of merging with the Sun’s life-giving function.
Sañjaya describes a class of highly virtuous ascetics said to have descended from Brahmaloka. Through intense austerity and celibate discipline, they become spiritually potent and then ‘enter the Sun’—a cosmological image for contributing their merit/energy to the Sun’s protective, sustaining role for living creatures.