Shloka 42
Adhyaya 10 — Jaimini’s Questions on Birth, Death, Karma, and the Embodied Journey
ज्ञानदानफलं ह्येतद्यज्जातिस्मरणं मम ।
न ह्येतत्प्राप्यते तात त्रयीधर्माश्रितैर्नरैः ॥
jñānadānaphalaṃ hy etad yaj jātismaraṇaṃ mama | na hy etat prāpyate tāta trayīdharmāśritair naraiḥ ||
This memory of my former births is indeed the fruit of knowledge and of giving. For, dear father, men devoted only to the religion of the Vedic triad—mere ritualism—do not attain this.
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FAQs
Purāṇic teaching often ranks inner knowledge and selfless giving above mere ritual performance; extraordinary spiritual capacities (like jātismaraṇa) are linked to refined merit and insight.
Dharma/Upadeśa: a didactic valuation of jñāna-dāna over exclusive dependence on trayī (ritual orthopraxy).
‘Trayī-dharma’ here symbolizes outward sacrificial identity; jñāna-dāna indicates inward purification and de-centering of ego, which unveils latent memory (saṃskāra-jñāna).