Varaha Purana 136.96: Adhyaya 136, Shloka 96
A Sūtra-like Manual of Expiations for Ritual Transgressions
मद्भक्तश्च विनीतश्च अपराधविवर्जितः ॥ मुक्तस्तु सर्वसंसारान्मम लोकं स गच्छति
madbhaktaś ca vinītaś ca aparādhavivarjitaḥ || muktas tu sarvasaṁsārān mama lokaṁ sa gacchati
Doch wer Mir ergeben ist, demütig und diszipliniert, frei von Verfehlungen—von allen Wanderungen im Samsara erlöst—gelangt in Meine Welt.
Varāha
Bhakti joined with vinaya (discipline/humility) and aparādha-tyāga (freedom from offenses) is the qualifying conduct for liberation.
Such a devotee is freed from samsaric cycles and attains the Lord’s loka; offenses and lack of discipline obstruct that ascent.
Varāha here functions as the supreme refuge: devotion (upāsanā) becomes the ‘tusk’ that lifts the jīva from samsāra, paralleling the Earth-lifting myth at the level of the soul.
Implicit: as Varāha lifts Earth from the abyss, so bhakti lifts the devotee from transmigration into the Lord’s realm.
Bhakti as a direct means to mokṣa through grace (anugraha), aligning with theistic Vedānta where liberation is entry into Bhagavat-loka rather than mere dissolution.
Devotion with humility and offense-free conduct culminates in liberation by divine grace.
Practice steady devotion, cultivate vinaya, avoid aparādhas (toward deity, guru, devotees, and dharma) to make bhakti ‘non-obstructed’.
Continuation of karmic warnings and ritual-ethics leading into liberation teaching (136.105–136.110)
FAQs
It articulates a bhakti-oriented soteriology characteristic of Vaiṣṇava Purāṇas, linking ethical comportment (vinaya, non-offense) with liberation language.
No earthly geographic location is named; “mama loka” is a cosmological/otherworldly designation.
Cultivate devotion, discipline, and avoidance of wrongdoing/offense as the stated pathway beyond saṁsāra.
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