Rna (The Three Debts)
(ऋण (तीन ऋण))Literal Meaning
Debt owed at birth
Etymology & Sanskrit Root
Sanskrit 'rna' (debt); the traditional teaching that every person is born owing three debts — to the sages (deva-rna, repaid through worship), to the ancestors (pitr-rna, repaid through offspring and rites), and to the sages (rishi-rna, repaid through study).
Spiritual Insight & Context
The three debts frame human existence as inherently relational and indebted from birth — one is never a self-made individual but always already obligated to divine, ancestral, and intellectual lineages.