Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 40, Shloka 24
Adhyaya 40 — The Yogin’s Impediments (Upasargas), Subtle Concentrations, and the Eight Siddhis
तस्माद्विदित्वा सूक्ष्माणि संसक्तानि परस्परम् ।
परित्यजति यो देही स परं प्राप्नुयात् पदम् ॥
tasmād viditvā sūkṣmāṇi saṃsaktāni parasparam /
parityajati yo dehī sa paraṃ prāpnuyāt padam
ਇਸ ਲਈ ਸੁਖਮ ਤੱਤਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਆਪਸ ਵਿੱਚ ਗੁੱਥੇ ਹੋਏ ਸਮਝ ਕੇ, ਜੋ ਦੇਹਧਾਰੀ ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਤਿਆਗ ਦਿੰਦਾ ਹੈ, ਉਹ ਪਰਮ ਅਸਥਾਨ ਨੂੰ ਪ੍ਰਾਪਤ ਹੁੰਦਾ ਹੈ।
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FAQs
Liberation requires recognizing that even subtle enjoyments and identifications are linked in a chain; cutting the chain means relinquishing the whole network of clinging, not merely gross pleasures.
Upadeśa section: practical soteriology (means to mokṣa) rather than cosmological genealogy.
‘Mutually entangled subtle principles’ can be read as tanmātra–bhūta–indriya interlock; the yogin disentangles identification from the entire apparatus of experience, revealing the ‘paraṃ padam’ beyond guṇas.