Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 10, Shloka 41
Adhyaya 10 — Jaimini’s Questions on Birth, Death, Karma, and the Embodied Journey
पूर्वाभ्यासेन तेनैव सोऽहं तात जितेन्द्रियः ।
यतिष्यामि तथा कर्तुं न भविष्ये यथा पुनः ॥
pūrvābhyāsena tenaiva so ’haṃ tāta jitendriyaḥ | yatiṣyāmi tathā kartuṃ na bhaviṣye yathā punaḥ ||
हे प्रिय पिता, पूर्वजन्मों के उसी अभ्यास से मैं संयमी हो गया हूँ। मैं ऐसा आचरण करने का प्रयत्न करूँगा कि फिर पहले की तरह पुनर्जन्म न हो।
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FAQs
Spiritual progress is cumulative: prior discipline ripens into present self-mastery, and the aim of right effort is freedom from repeated rebirth (punarjanma).
Primarily Dharma/Upadeśa (ethical-philosophical instruction) rather than sarga/pratisarga/manvantara/vaṃśa; it supports the Purāṇic function of teaching liberation-oriented dharma.
‘Prior practice’ suggests saṃskāra continuity across births; ‘conquest of senses’ is the inner yajña that burns the seeds of future embodiment.