Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 71, Shloka 12
Adhyaya 71 — The King’s Remorse and the Sage’s Counsel on the Necessity of a Wife
राजोवाच भगवन् ! किं करोम्येष विपाको मम कर्मणाम् । नानुकूलानुकूलस्य यस्मात्त्यक्ता ततो मया ॥
rājovāca bhagavan kiṃ karomy eṣa vipāko mama karmaṇām / nānukūlānukūlasya yasmāt tyaktā tato mayā
ਰਾਜਾ ਬੋਲਿਆ—ਹੇ ਭਗਵਨ, ਮੈਂ ਕੀ ਕਰਾਂ? ਇਹ ਮੇਰੇ ਕਰਮਾਂ ਦਾ ਫਲ ਹੈ। ਜੋ ਮਨਭਾਉਂਦੀ ਚੀਜ਼ ਲੱਭਣ ਵਾਲੇ ਨੂੰ ਵੀ ਰਾਸ ਨਾ ਆਈ, ਇਸ ਲਈ ਮੈਂ ਉਸ ਨੂੰ ਤਿਆਗ ਦਿੱਤਾ।
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FAQs
The king recognizes karmic consequence yet still frames his act as a response to inconvenience; the verse captures the common moral tension between accountability and self-justification.
Ethical narrative (vaṃśānucarita-style character episode) illustrating karma and dharma; not a technical pañcalakṣaṇa segment.
‘Not agreeable’ symbolizes aversion (dveṣa); abandoning duty due to aversion deepens bondage, and the felt ‘vipāka’ is the psyche meeting the moral law it tried to bypass.