Markandeya Purana — Chapter 42
MkP 42.1
एवं यो वर्तते योगी सम्यग्योगव्यवस्थितः । न स व्यावर्तितुं शक्यो जन्मान्तरशतैरपि
evaṃ yo vartate yogī samyagyogavyavasthitaḥ / na sa vyāvartituṃ śakyo janmāntaraśatairapi
The yogin who conducts himself thus, rightly established in yoga, cannot be turned back (from it) even by hundreds of further births.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
MkP 42.2
दृष्ट्वा च परमात्मानं प्रत्यक्षं विश्वरूपिणम् । विश्वपादशिरोग्रीवं विश्वेशं विश्वभावनम्
dṛṣṭvā ca paramātmānaṃ pratyakṣaṃ viśvarūpiṇam / viśvapādaśirogrīvaṃ viśveśaṃ viśvabhāvanam
And having seen directly the supreme Self, who has the universe as his form, whose feet, head and neck are the universe, the lord of the universe, the bringer-forth of the universe —
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MkP 42.3
तत्प्राप्तये महत्पुण्यमोमित्येकाक्षरं जपेत् । तदेवाध्ययनं तस्य स्वरूपं शृण्वतः परम्
tatprāptaye mahatpuṇyamomityekākṣaraṃ japet / tadevādhyayanaṃ tasya svarūpaṃ śṛṇvataḥ param
For the attainment of that, one should recite the single syllable "om," of great merit; that alone is study for him who listens to (or: hears about) the supreme nature of that (Self).
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
MkP 42.4
अकारश्च तथोकारो मकारश्चाक्षरत्रयम् । एता एव त्रयो मात्राः सात्त्वराजसतामसाः
akāraśca tathokāro makāraścākṣaratrayam / etā eva trayo mātrāḥ sāttvarājasatāmasāḥ
The sound a, and likewise the sound u, and the sound m — these three syllables; these very three are the (three) measures, sattvic, rajasic and tamasic.
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MkP 42.5
निर्गुणा योगिगम्यान्या चार्धमात्रोर्ध्वसंस्थिता । गान्धारीति च विज्ञेया गान्धारस्वरसंश्रया
nirguṇā yogigamyānyā cārdhamātrordhvasaṃsthitā / gāndhārīti ca vijñeyā gāndhārasvarasaṃśrayā
But the other, devoid of the qualities, attainable (only) by yogins, is the half-measure standing above; it is to be known as "Gāndhārī," resting on the note gāndhāra.
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MkP 42.6
पिपीलिकागतिस्पर्शा प्रयुक्ता मूर्ध्नि लक्ष्यते । यथा प्रयुक्त ओङ्गारः प्रतिनिर्याति मूर्धनि
pipīlikāgatisparśā prayuktā mūrdhni lakṣyate / yathā prayukta oṅgāraḥ pratiniryāti mūrdhani
When employed, it is perceived in the head with a touch like the crawling of an ant; as the uttered om goes forth out through the head,
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MkP 42.7
तथोङ्कारमयो योगी त्वक्षरे त्वक्षरो भवेत् । प्राणो धनुः शरो ह्यात्मा ब्रह्म वेध्यमनुत्तमम्
tathoṅkāramayo yogī tvakṣare tvakṣaro bhavet / prāṇo dhanuḥ śaro hyātmā brahma vedhyamanuttamam
so the yogin, made of om, becomes imperishable in the imperishable. The breath is the bow, the self indeed the arrow, brahman the target to be pierced, than which there is nothing higher.
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MkP 42.8
अप्रमत्तेन वेद्धव्यं शरवत्तन्मयो भवेत् । ओमित्येतत् त्रयो वेदास्त्रयो लोकास्त्रयो ऽग्नयः
apramattena veddhavyaṃ śaravattanmayo bhavet / omityetat trayo vedāstrayo lokāstrayo 'gnayaḥ
It must be pierced by one who is not heedless; like the arrow, he becomes one with it. This "om" is the three Vedas, the three worlds, the three fires,
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MkP 42.9
विष्णुर्-ब्रह्मा-हरश्चैव ऋक्सामानि यजूंषि च । मात्राः सार्धाश्च तिस्त्रश्च विज्ञेयाः परमार्थतः
viṣṇur-brahmā-haraścaiva ṛksāmāni yajūṃṣi ca / mātrāḥ sārdhāśca tistraśca vijñeyāḥ paramārthataḥ
and Viṣṇu, Brahmā and Hara, and the Ṛg, Sāma and Yajus (verses); in the highest sense they are to be known as the three measures together with the half.
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MkP 42.10
तत्र युक्तस्तु यो योगी स तल्लयमवाप्नुयात् । अकारस्त्वथ भूर्लोक उकारश्चोच्यते भुवः
tatra yuktastu yo yogī sa tallayamavāpnuyāt / akārastvatha bhūrloka ukāraścocyate bhuvaḥ
The yogin who is joined to that attains dissolution in it. Now the sound a is the earth-world, and the sound u is said to be the mid-air (bhuvaḥ),
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MkP 42.11
सव्यञ्जनो मकारश्च स्वर्लोकः परिकल्प्यते । व्यक्ता तु प्रथमा मात्रा द्वितीयाव्यक्तसंज्ञिता
savyañjano makāraśca svarlokaḥ parikalpyate / vyaktā tu prathamā mātrā dvitīyāvyaktasaṃjñitā
and the sound m with its consonant is reckoned as the heaven-world. The first measure is the manifest, the second is called the unmanifest,
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MkP 42.12
मात्रा तृतीया चिच्छक्तिरर्धमात्रा परं पदम् । अनेनैव क्रमेणैता विज्ञेया योगभूमयः
mātrā tṛtīyā cicchaktirardhamātrā paraṃ padam / anenaiva krameṇaitā vijñeyā yogabhūmayaḥ
the third measure is the power of consciousness, and the half-measure is the supreme state. In just this order these are to be known as the stages of yoga.
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MkP 42.13
ओमित्युच्चारणात् सर्वं गृहीतं सदसद् भवेत् । ह्रस्वा तु प्रथमा मात्रा द्वितीया दैर्घ्यसंयुता
omityuccāraṇāt sarvaṃ gṛhītaṃ sadasad bhavet / hrasvā tu prathamā mātrā dvitīyā dairghyasaṃyutā
By the uttering of "om" all that is existent and non-existent is comprehended. The first measure is short, the second is joined with length,
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MkP 42.14
तृतीया च प्लुतार्धाख्या वचसः सा न गोचरा । इत्येतदक्षरं ब्रह्म परमोङ्कारसंज्ञितम्
tṛtīyā ca plutārdhākhyā vacasaḥ sā na gocarā / ityetadakṣaraṃ brahma paramoṅkārasaṃjñitam
and the third is the half called prolated; it is not within the range of speech. Thus this syllable is brahman, named the supreme om.
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MkP 42.15
यस्तु वेद नरः सम्यक् तथा ध्यायति वा पुनः । संसारचक्रमुत्सृज्य त्यक्तत्रिविधबन्धनः
yastu veda naraḥ samyak tathā dhyāyati vā punaḥ / saṃsāracakramutsṛjya tyaktatrividhabandhanaḥ
The man who rightly knows it, or again meditates upon it, casting off the wheel of transmigration, having abandoned the threefold bondage,
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MkP 42.16
प्राप्रोति ब्रह्मणि लयं परमे परमात्मनि । अक्षीणकर्मबन्धश्च ज्ञात्वा मृत्युमरिष्टतः
prāproti brahmaṇi layaṃ parame paramātmani / akṣīṇakarmabandhaśca jñātvā mṛtyumariṣṭataḥ
attains dissolution in brahman, in the supreme, in the highest Self. But he whose bondage of karma is not exhausted, having learnt of his death from the omens of death,
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MkP 42.17
उत्क्रान्तिकाले संस्मृत्य पुनर्योगित्वमृच्छति । तस्मादसिद्धयोगेन सिद्धयोगेन वा पुनः । ज्ञेयन्यरिष्टानि सदा येनोत्क्रान्तौ न सीदति
utkrāntikāle saṃsmṛtya punaryogitvamṛcchati / tasmādasiddhayogena siddhayogena vā punaḥ / jñeyanyariṣṭāni sadā yenotkrāntau na sīdati
recollecting (it) at the time of departure, comes again to the state of a yogin. Therefore, whether one's yoga is unaccomplished or accomplished, the omens are always to be known, by which one does not fail at the time of departure.
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