Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 37, Shloka 41
Adhyaya 37 — Alarka’s Crisis and the Teaching on Non-Attachment (Madālasa’s Instruction Recalled)
तस्मान्न मेऽरिर्न च मेऽस्ति दुःखं न मे सुखं नापि पुरं न कोषम् ।
न चाश्वनागादि बलं न तस्य नान्यस्य वा कस्यचिद्वा ममास्ति ॥
tasmān na me ’rir na ca me ’sti duḥkhaṃ na me sukhaṃ nāpi puraṃ na koṣam | na cāśva-nāgādi balaṃ na tasya nānyasya vā kasyacid vā mamāsti ||
ਇਸ ਲਈ ਮੇਰਾ ਕੋਈ ਵੈਰੀ ਨਹੀਂ; ਨਾ ਮੈਨੂੰ ਦੁੱਖ ਹੈ, ਨਾ ਸੁਖ। ਨਾ ਮੇਰਾ ਸ਼ਹਿਰ ਹੈ, ਨਾ ਖਜ਼ਾਨਾ। ਘੋੜਿਆਂ-ਹਾਥੀਆਂ ਆਦਿ ਦੀ ਤਾਕਤ ਵੀ ਮੇਰੀ ਨਹੀਂ—ਨਾ ਉਸ ਦੀ, ਨਾ ਕਿਸੇ ਹੋਰ ਦੀ ਕੋਈ ਚੀਜ਼ ‘ਮੇਰੀ’ ਹੈ।
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FAQs
Enmity and ownership are sustained by egoic identification. When ‘mine’ drops away, conflict loses its fuel and the person becomes inwardly free.
A liberation-oriented aside within the Purāṇa; not one of the five defining characteristics.
The verse moves from negating personal emotion (sukha/duḥkha) to negating political identity (city/treasury/army), implying a shift from jīva-identity to pure witnesshood.