Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 10, Shloka 52
Adhyaya 10 — Jaimini’s Questions on Birth, Death, Karma, and the Embodied Journey
येनानृतानि नोक्तानि प्रीतिभेदः कृतो न च ।
आस्तिकः श्रद्धधानश्च स सुखं मृत्युमृच्छति ॥
yenānṛtāni noktāni prītibhedaḥ kṛto na ca / āstikaḥ śraddadhānaś ca sa sukhaṃ mṛtyum ṛcchati
ਜਿਸ ਨੇ ਝੂਠ ਨਹੀਂ ਬੋਲਿਆ ਅਤੇ ਜਿਸ ਨੇ ਪਿਆਰ ਦਾ ਟੁੱਟਣਾ ਨਹੀਂ ਕਰਵਾਇਆ—ਆਸਤਿਕ ਤੇ ਸ਼ਰਧਾ ਨਾਲ ਭਰਿਆ ਉਹ ਸ਼ਾਂਤੀ ਨਾਲ ਮੌਤ ਨੂੰ ਪ੍ਰਾਪਤ ਹੁੰਦਾ ਹੈ।
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FAQs
Truthfulness and preserving relationships are treated as death-facing virtues: they prevent inner fragmentation (guilt, fear, social enmity) and thus yield a composed, ‘easy’ passage at life’s end.
Ancillary dharma teaching; not a pancalakṣaṇa category proper.
‘Prīti’ (affection) indicates cohesion of the subtle body’s dispositions; avoiding prīti-bheda implies non-violence at the emotional level, reducing saṃskāric agitation that otherwise manifests as fear at death.