Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 46, Shloka 19
Adhyaya 46 — Cosmic Dissolution, the Emergence of Brahma, and the Measures of Time (Yugas, Manvantaras, and Brahma’s Day)
अन्योन्यमिथुना ह्येते अन्योन्याश्रयिणस्तथा ।
क्षणं वियोगो नह्येषां न त्यजन्ति परस्परम् ॥
anyonyamithunā hy ete anyonyāśrayiṇas tathā | kṣaṇaṃ viyogo nahy eṣāṃ na tyajanti parasparam ||
Indeed these are paired with one another and mutually dependent. There is not even a moment of separation for them; they do not abandon one another.
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FAQs
No single cosmic function stands alone: creation, maintenance, and dissolution co-exist as a system. Ethically, it discourages one-sided absolutizing—balance and integration are closer to truth.
It provides the doctrinal glue for Sarga–Sthiti–Pratisarga, showing them as inseparable operations within cyclical time.
In practice, the mind’s clarity, activity, and inertia are always mixed; liberation is not merely suppressing one mode but seeing their interplay and resting in the witness beyond them.