Agni Purana — Yoga & Brahma-vidya, Shloka 4
अध्याय ३८० — गीतासारः
The Essence of the Gītā
अम्मोहात् स्मृतिविभ्रंशो बुद्धिनाशात् प्रणश्यति दुःसङ्गहानिः सत्सङ्गान्मोक्षकाभी च कामनुत्
ammohāt smṛtivibhraṃśo buddhināśāt praṇaśyati duḥsaṅgahāniḥ satsaṅgānmokṣakābhī ca kāmanut
মোহৰ পৰা স্মৃতিভ্ৰংশ হয়; বুদ্ধিনাশ হ’লে মানুহ বিনষ্ট হয়। দুঃসঙ্গৰ হানি সৎসঙ্গৰ দ্বাৰা দূৰ হয়, আৰু সৎসঙ্গৰ পৰা মোক্ষকামনা জাগে।
Lord Agni (instructing the sage Vasiṣṭha in the Agni Purana’s didactic discourse)
Primary Rasa: Shanta
Secondary Rasa: Karuna
Sandhi Resolution Notes: ammohāt इति पाठः सम्भवतः सम्मोहात्; सत्सङ्गान्मोक्षकाभी → सत्सङ्गात् + मोक्षकाभी (नकारागमः). अन्त्यपादे 'मोक्षकाभी, कामनुत्' इत्यत्र पाठभ्रंश/भेदसम्भावना.
FAQs
It imparts a practical spiritual-psychology teaching: delusion triggers loss of right memory, which destroys discernment and leads to ruin; the applied remedy is sat-saṅga (holy company), which removes the damage of duḥ-saṅga and awakens the aspiration for mokṣa.
Beyond rituals and cosmology, it preserves a concise model of moral-psychological causality (moha → smṛti-bhraṁśa → buddhi-nāśa → ruin) and pairs it with a behavioral intervention (satsaṅga), showing the Purana’s breadth in ethics, self-cultivation, and liberation doctrine.
Choosing sat-saṅga is presented as purificatory and transformative: it counteracts the karmically harmful pull of bad association and reorients the mind toward discrimination and liberation, making mokṣa-icchā (the longing for freedom) arise naturally.