Shloka 5
Adhyaya 45 — Jaimini’s Cosmological Questions and the Opening of Markandeya’s Account of Primary Creation
संसारेऽस्मिन् मनुष्याणां भ्रमतामतिसङ्कटे ।
भवद्विधैः समं सङ्गो जायते नातपस्विनाम् ॥
saṃsāre 'smin manuṣyāṇāṃ bhramatām atisaṅkaṭe | bhavadvidhaiḥ samaṃ saṅgo jāyate nātapasvinām ||
এই ভয়ংকর সংসারে, যেখানে মানুষ বিভ্রান্ত হয়ে ঘুরে বেড়ায়, যারা নিজে তপস্বী নয় তাদের পক্ষে আপনার মতো ঋষি-মুনিদের সৎসঙ্গ সহজে লাভ হয় না।
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FAQs
The verse stresses adhikāra (fitness): higher knowledge and transforming company (satsaṅga) typically comes to those who cultivate tapas, discipline, and sincerity; otherwise one continues to ‘wander’ in saṃsāra’s hazards.
Indirect prologue to purāṇic instruction; it prepares for pañcalakṣaṇa themes by establishing the student’s humility and the rarity of access to authoritative narrators before sarga/pratisarga/manvantara/vaṃśa/vaṃśānucarita are requested.
‘Wandering’ points to the mind’s saṅkalpa-vikalpa; tapas symbolizes inner heat that ripens receptivity, making the ‘meeting with sages’ an inner convergence of purified intellect with śāstra.