Brahma Vaivarta Purana Chapter 19:71-80

Brahma Vaivarta Purana

Käliya-damana-dävägni-mokñana

Subduing Käliya and Extinguishing the Forest Fire

Chapter 19: Verse 71-80

ENGLISH TRANSLATION 71.By My blessing not one of your descendants will fear Garuòa. 72.Child, ask for a boon. Give up your fears and ask a boon from Me, the person who has broken your fears to pieces. 73.Hearing Lord Kåñëa's words, Käliya trembled with fear. Folding his hands, he spoke. 74.Çri Käliya said: O Lord, O giver of boons, please give to me the boon that I will always remember and always be devoted to Your lotus feet birth after birth. I do not wish any other boon. 75.Whether I take birth in a brähmaëa's family or in an animal's womb, my life will be a great success if I remember Your lotus feet. 76.If I live in Svargaloka but cannot remember You, then my life is a great failure. The place where I can remember Your feet is the best of places. 77.Lasting for either a moment or ten million kalpas, a life spent in Your service is a great success. Otherwise it is a failure. 78.They who serve Your lotus feet never die. For them there is no birth, death, old-age, lamentation, pain, and fear. 79.Your devotees do not wish to become a demigod, an Indra, or a Brahmä if by doing so they cannot serve Your lotus feet. 80.Your devotees see the four kinds of liberation, what to speak of other things, as equal to a torn piece of cloth.