Shloka 62
Sarasvatī–Tārkṣya Saṃvāda: Agnihotra-vidhi, Dāna-phala, and Mokṣa-prasaṅga (सरस्वती–तार्क्ष्यसंवादः)
अत्र ते कथयिष्यामि तदिहैकमना: शृणु । यथेहामुत्र च नर: सुखदुःखमुपाश्चुते,मनुष्य इहलोक या परलोकमें जिस प्रकार सुख और दुःख भोगता है, इसके विषयमें तुम्हें अपना विचार बताऊँगा। तुम एकाग्रचित्त होकर सुनो
atra te kathayiṣyāmi tad ihaikamanāḥ śṛṇu | yathehāmutra ca naraḥ sukhaduḥkham upāśnute ||
“Here I shall explain it to you—listen with a single, focused mind. I will tell you how a person, both in this world and in the next, comes to experience pleasure and pain—how these results are encountered as the fruits of one’s conduct.”
मार्कण्डेय उवाच
Educational Q&A
Mārkaṇḍeya introduces a moral explanation of how pleasure and pain are experienced in both this life and the next, implying a karmic linkage between one’s actions/choices and the results one undergoes.
Mārkaṇḍeya begins an instructive discourse, asking the listener to be attentive, and announces that he will explain the principle by which humans experience happiness and suffering across worldly and post-worldly states.