Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 10, Shloka 10
Adhyaya 10 — Jaimini’s Questions on Birth, Death, Karma, and the Embodied Journey
वेदानधीष्व सुमते यथानुक्रममादितः ।
गुरुशुश्रूषणे व्यग्रो भैक्षान्नकृतभोजनः ॥
vedān adhīṣva sumate yathānukramam āditaḥ |
guruśuśrūṣaṇe vyagro bhaikṣānna-kṛta-bhojanaḥ ||
उसने कहा—“हे सुमति, आरम्भ से क्रमपूर्वक वेदों का अध्ययन करो। गुरु-सेवा में तत्पर रहो, और विधि के अनुसार भिक्षा से ही अन्न ग्रहण करो।”
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FAQs
Knowledge is framed as inseparable from discipline: learning the Veda requires humility (service), restraint (regulated food), and method (sequence).
This is dharma-śikṣā (instruction on conduct), a common Purāṇic function alongside pancalakṣaṇa narratives; it aligns especially with varṇāśrama-dharma teaching rather than cosmological cataloging.
The triad—svādhyāya, guru-sevā, and bhikṣā—purifies ego and senses, preparing the mind to grasp the ‘supreme secret’ behind birth/death that the chapter is moving toward.