Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 42, Shloka 1
Adhyaya 42 — Dattatreya on the Yogic Import of Oṃ (Praṇava): Matras, Worlds, and Liberation
इति श्रीमार्कण्डेयपुराणे योगिचर्यानामैकचत्वारिंशोऽध्यायः ।
द्विचत्वारिंशोऽध्यायः ।
दत्तात्रेय उवाच ।
एवं यो वर्तते योगी सम्यग्योगव्यवस्थितः ।
न स व्यावर्तितुं शक्यो जन्मान्तरशतैरपि ॥
iti śrīmārkaṇḍeyapurāṇe yogicaryānām aikacatvāriṁśo 'dhyāyaḥ / dvicatvāriṁśo 'dhyāyaḥ / dattātreya uvāca / evaṁ yo vartate yogī samyagyogavyavasthitaḥ / na sa vyāvartituṁ śakyo janmāntaraśatair api
Thus ends the forty-first chapter on the conduct of the yogin in the Śrī Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa. The forty-second chapter. Dattātreya said: The yogin who lives in this way, firmly established in right yoga, cannot be turned back—even across hundreds of births.
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FAQs
Right establishment in yoga creates a stable samskāra that resists regression; the moral emphasis is consistency—living the discipline, not merely studying it.
Still within mokṣa/dharma instruction rather than pancalakṣaṇa. The colophon marks a textual seam between chapters rather than a cosmological or genealogical unit.
The claim of ‘not being turned back’ points to niṣṭhā (firm abidance): once insight and practice cohere, even future embodiments tend toward liberation rather than entanglement.