Shloka 20
Snātaka and Gṛhastha-Dharma: Conduct, Marriage Norms, Daily Rites, and Liberating Virtues
येनास्य पितरो याता येन याताः पितामहाः / तेन यायात् सतां मार्गं तेन गच्छन् न रिष्यति
yenāsya pitaro yātā yena yātāḥ pitāmahāḥ / tena yāyāt satāṃ mārgaṃ tena gacchan na riṣyati
యే మార్గమున అతని పితరులు, పితామహులు నడిచిరో, అదే సత్పురుషుల మార్గము; ఆ మార్గమున నడిచినవాడు ఎప్పుడూ నాశమునకు లోనుకాడు।
Lord Kurma (Vishnu) instructing on dharma through ancestral and sādhujana precedent
Primary Rasa: shanta
Secondary Rasa: vira
FAQs
Indirectly: it frames spiritual safety as grounded in sat-mārga—ethical continuity and disciplined conduct—which in the Kurma Purana functions as the prerequisite purification (adhikāra) for deeper Self-knowledge.
This verse emphasizes the preparatory limb of practice: sadācāra and dharma as the stabilizing foundation for later yogic disciplines (such as restraint, purity, and devotion) taught elsewhere in the Kurma Purana’s integrated Shaiva–Vaishnava soteriology.
It does not name Shiva or Vishnu explicitly; instead it expresses a shared Purāṇic principle: the safe path is the sat-mārga validated by realized and righteous exemplars—an ethic compatible with the Kurma Purana’s synthesis of Shaiva and Vaishnava spiritual authority.