Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 16, Shloka 59
Adhyaya 16 — The Son’s Counsel on Renunciation and the Anasuya–Mandavya Episode: The Suspension of Sunrise and the Power of Pativrata
स्वजातिविहितानेव लोकानाप्नोति मानवः ।
क्लेशेन महता साध्वि ! प्राजापत्यादिकान् क्रमात् ॥
svajāti-vihitān eva lokān āpnoti mānavaḥ | kleśena mahatā sādhvi prājāpatyādikān kramāt ||
मनुष्य अपने ही जाति/वर्ण के लिए नियत लोकों को ही प्राप्त करता है; हे साध्वी, महान प्रयत्न से क्रमशः प्राजापत्य आदि लोकों तक पहुँचा जाता है।
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FAQs
The verse emphasizes adhikāra (eligibility) and ordered progress: outcomes correspond to one’s disciplined performance of prescribed duty, often requiring sustained effort.
Touches cosmological geography of lokas (adjacent to sarga-style cosmology), but presented here as karmic pedagogy within dharma instruction.
‘Kramāt’ implies inner maturation: higher states are not seized abruptly; they unfold through graduated purification and consistent practice.