तत् यथा महापथः आततः उभौ ग्रामौ गच्छति इमम् च अमुम् च एवम् एव एताः आदित्यस्य रश्मयः उभौ लोकौ गच्छन्ति इमम् च अमुम् च अमुष्मात् आदित्यात् प्रतायन्ते ताः आसु नाडीषु सृप्ताः आभ्यः नाडीभ्यः प्रतायन्ते ते अमुष्मिन् आदित्ये सृप्ताः
tat yathā mahāpathaḥ ātataḥ ubhau grāmau gacchati imam ca amum ca evam eva etāḥ ādityasya raśmayaḥ ubhau lokau gacchanti imam ca amum ca amuṣmāt ādityāt pratāyante tāḥ āsu nāḍīṣu sṛptāḥ ābhyaḥ nāḍībhyaḥ pratāyante te amuṣmin āditye sṛptāḥ
As a great road runs to both villages, to this one and to that, so the rays of the sun run to both worlds, to this one and to that. From yonder sun they stretch out and enter these channels; from these channels they stretch out and enter yonder sun.
1943c1ecb562 · प्रकाशित 26 जुल॰ 2026, 11:52:58 pm UTC
उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
The image of a highroad between two villages is of a brilliant simplicity: one road, two ends. The sun's rays are that same road: one end in the heart (they enter "these channels"), the other in the sun. Between a man's breast and the luminary there is no void but a taut, ever-working connection: a man is literally plugged into the sky.
Departure from the body, then, is not a leap into the unknown but a journey along a highroad long since laid. The two worlds — "this village and that" — are neighbours joined by a road; for a knower, death is a passage along a familiar way and not a wreck. Here the whole yogic science of the suṣumnā and the solar path is foreseen — and bhakti's whole faith that the Lord has not left the soul without a road home: the road is laid from his threshold to every heart.