Shloka 42
Adhyaya 10 — Jaimini’s Questions on Birth, Death, Karma, and the Embodied Journey
ज्ञानदानफलं ह्येतद्यज्जातिस्मरणं मम ।
न ह्येतत्प्राप्यते तात त्रयीधर्माश्रितैर्नरैः ॥
jñānadānaphalaṃ hy etad yaj jātismaraṇaṃ mama | na hy etat prāpyate tāta trayīdharmāśritair naraiḥ ||
میری پچھلے جنموں کی یہ یادداشت علم اور دان کی ہی پھل ہے۔ اے عزیز باپ، جو لوگ صرف ویدوں کی تثلیث کے رسم و رواج والے دھرم میں لگے رہتے ہیں، وہ اسے حاصل نہیں کرتے۔
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FAQs
Purāṇic teaching often ranks inner knowledge and selfless giving above mere ritual performance; extraordinary spiritual capacities (like jātismaraṇa) are linked to refined merit and insight.
Dharma/Upadeśa: a didactic valuation of jñāna-dāna over exclusive dependence on trayī (ritual orthopraxy).
‘Trayī-dharma’ here symbolizes outward sacrificial identity; jñāna-dāna indicates inward purification and de-centering of ego, which unveils latent memory (saṃskāra-jñāna).