Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 58, Shloka 61
Adhyaya 58 — The Kurma-Form of Narayana: Mapping Bharata through Nakshatras, Regions, and Planetary Afflictions
आत्मन्यथाल्पपुण्यानां सर्वत्रैवातिपापिनाम् ।
नैकत्रापि ह्यपापानां भयमस्ति कदाचन ॥
ātmanyathālpapuṇyānāṃ sarvatraivātipāpinām / naikatrāpi hyapāpānāṃ bhayamasti kadācana
ಹೀಗೆ ಅಲ್ಪಪುಣ್ಯರು ಮತ್ತು ಮಹಾಪಾಪಿಗಳು ಎಲ್ಲೆಡೆ, ತಮ್ಮ ವಿಷಯದಲ್ಲಿಯೂ ಭಯಪಡುತ್ತಾರೆ; ಆದರೆ ನಿಷ್ಪಾಪರಿಗೆ ಎಂದಿಗೂ ಭಯವಿಲ್ಲ, ಒಂದೇ ಸ್ಥಳದಲ್ಲೂ ಇಲ್ಲ।
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FAQs
Ethical purity is presented as the deepest security: fear is not merely external but rooted in one’s karmic and moral condition.
Dharma-upadeśa embedded within a cosmological discourse; Purāṇas often interleave ethics with descriptions of time and fate.
Fearlessness (abhaya) is treated as an inner radiance born of non-contradiction with dharma; the ‘sinless’ are aligned with ṛta, hence unshaken by omens.