Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 44, Shloka 16
Adhyaya 44 — Subahu’s Counsel to the King of Kashi and Alarka’s Renunciation through Yoga
सुहृदि स्वजने बन्धौ समर्थे योऽवसीदति ।
धर्मार्थकाममोक्षेभ्यो वाच्या स्ते तत्र न त्वसौ ॥
suhṛdi svajane bandhau samarthe yo 'vasīdati / dharmārthakāmamokṣebhyo vācyās te tatra na tv asau //
ಸಮರ್ಥ ಮಿತ್ರನಿಗೆ, ಸ್ವಜನರಿಗೆ ಅಥವಾ ಬಂಧುವಿಗೆ ಸಲ್ಲಬೇಕಾದ ಕರ್ತವ್ಯದಲ್ಲಿ ವಿಫಲನಾಗುವವನು ಧರ್ಮ, ಅರ್ಥ, ಕಾಮ, ಮೋಕ್ಷಗಳ ಉಪದೇಶಕ್ಕೂ ಅರ್ಹನಲ್ಲ; ಉಪದೇಶವು ಯೋಗ್ಯನಿಗೇ ಹೇಳಬೇಕು, ಅವನಿಗೆ ಅಲ್ಲ।
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FAQs
Scriptural counsel presumes basic ethical reliability. If one violates elementary obligations to friends and kin, higher teachings on the puruṣārthas become fruitless; instruction requires adhikāra—moral preparedness.
Non-pancalakṣaṇa material: it is didactic ethics within narrative dialogue (upadeśa), not cosmology, genealogy, or manvantara chronicle.
The verse implies a hierarchy of teachings: purification through right relationship precedes metaphysical instruction. ‘Mokṣa-talk’ without ethical grounding becomes mere words.