Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 45, Shloka 35
Adhyaya 45 — Jaimini’s Cosmological Questions and the Opening of Markandeya’s Account of Primary Creation
प्रलयस्यानु तेनेदं व्याप्तमासीदशेषतः ।
गुणसाम्यात्ततस्तस्मात् क्षेत्रज्ञाधिष्ठितान्मुने ॥
pralayasyānu tenedaṃ vyāptam āsīd aśeṣataḥ | guṇasāmyāt tatas tasmāt kṣetrajñādhiṣṭhitān mune ||
ਪ੍ਰਲਯ ਤੋਂ ਬਾਅਦ ਇਹ ਸਾਰਾ ਜਗਤ ਉਸ ਅਵ੍ਯਕਤ ਤੱਤ ਨਾਲ ਪੂਰੀ ਤਰ੍ਹਾਂ ਵਿਆਪਤ ਹੋ ਗਿਆ। ਫਿਰ, ਹੇ ਮੁਨੀ, ਖੇਤਰਜ੍ਞ (ਖੇਤਰ ਦਾ ਗਿਆਤਾ) ਦੀ ਅਧਿਸ਼ਠਾਨ-ਸੰਨਿਧੀ ਵਿੱਚ ਗੁਣਾਂ ਦੀ ਸਮ੍ਯ ਅਵਸਥਾ ਤੋਂ ਸ੍ਰਿਸ਼ਟੀ ਪ੍ਰਵਰਤਿਤ ਹੁੰਦੀ ਹੈ।
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FAQs
The verse frames creation as beginning when latent nature (with guṇas in equilibrium) is ‘activated’ under the witnessing/presiding consciousness (kṣetrajña). Ethically, it underlines that change arises from conditions; the seer (awareness) is distinct from the changing field.
Primarily Sarga (primary creation) stated against the backdrop of Pralaya (dissolution), describing the pre-creation condition and the trigger for emanation.
Guṇa-equilibrium symbolizes undifferentiated potential; the ‘presiding’ kṣetrajña points to consciousness as the illuminator/condition for manifestation, echoing Sāṅkhya-Yoga metaphysics.