Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 16, Shloka 7
Adhyaya 16 — The Son’s Counsel on Renunciation and the Anasuya–Mandavya Episode: The Suspension of Sunrise and the Power of Pativrata
पितावाच वत्स योगं ममाचक्ष्व मुक्तिहेतुमतः परम् ।
येन भूतैः पुनर्भूतो नेदृगः खमवाप्नुयाम् ॥
pitā vāca vatsa yogaṃ mamācakṣva mukti-hetum ataḥ param |
yena bhūtaiḥ punar-bhūto nedṛgaḥ kham avāpnuyām ||
पिता ने कहा—वत्स, मुझे वह योग बताओ जो मोक्ष का परम कारण है, जिससे मैं प्राणियों में फिर होकर भी इस अस्तित्व-आकाश में वैसा दुःख न पाऊँ।
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FAQs
Humility and urgency are prerequisites: the father recognizes the insufficiency of ordinary life and explicitly seeks the ‘highest’ liberating means.
Dialogue-based teaching (upadeśa) rather than cosmological narration; a soteriological interlude typical of Purāṇic encyclopedism.
The ‘sky’ can be read as the vast field of saṃsāra; the plea is to transcend the subtle ‘space’ in which karmic impressions roam and precipitate rebirth.