Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 10, Shloka 43
Adhyaya 10 — Jaimini’s Questions on Birth, Death, Karma, and the Embodied Journey
सोऽहं पूर्वाश्रमादेव निष्ठाधर्ममुपाश्रितः ।
एकान्तित्वमुपागम्य यतिष्याम्यात्ममोक्षणे ॥
so ’haṃ pūrvāśramād eva niṣṭhādharmam upāśritaḥ | ekāntitvam upāgamya yatiṣyāmy ātmamokṣaṇe ||
इसलिए मैं अपने पूर्व आश्रम से ही अचल धर्म की शरण में गया हूँ। एकाग्र एकान्त-निष्ठा प्राप्त करके मैं आत्म-मोक्ष के लिए प्रयत्न करूँगा।
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FAQs
Liberation is presented as the culmination of sustained commitment (niṣṭhā) and inner exclusivity (ekāntitva), implying that scattered living cannot yield mokṣa.
Dharma/Upadeśa with āśrama framing; not a cosmological or genealogical unit.
Ekāntitva hints at turning away from plurality (nānatva) toward the single reality of ātman/brahman; ‘former āśrama’ suggests continuity of vow across births.