Brahma Vaivarta Purana
The Wedding of Durväsä and Kandali
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ENGLISH TRANSLATION
11.She was born without having to enter a mother's womb. She has the power to enchant the three worlds. She is the resting place of all beauty and all virtues. She has only one fault. 12.She is very quarrelsome and likes to speak angry and harsh words. Something that has many virtues should not be rejected because of a single fault. 13.Hearing Aurva's words, Durväsä became both happy and said. He gazed at the beautiful and virtuous girl standing before him, . . . 14.. . . whose face was an autumn moon, whose eyes were autumn lotus flowers, who smiled gently, whose breasts and hips were very full, . . . 15. . . . who was in the full bloom of youth, who wore jewel ornaments and garments pure like fire, and who with crooked eyes gazed at him. 16.Gazing at the girl, the sage became enchanted. Badly wounded by Kämadeva's arrows, and his heart trembling, he spoke to Aurva Muni. 17.Çri Durväsä said: The form of a woman is an obstacle blocking the path of austerity and liberation from the three material worlds. It is always the cause of bewilderment. 18.It is the unbearably heavy shackle that binds the conditioned souls to this world of birth and death, a shackle that even Lord Çiva and the great saints cannot cut open with the sword of knowledge, . . . 19.. . . a shackle that is a more persistent companion that one's own shadow, that the inevitable results of past karma, than the senses, than the resting place of the senses, than knowledge, than the mind. 20.One's shadow persists only as long as the body lives. The result of karma remain only as long as they are not used up. The body, senses, and knowledge stay only for a single lifetime. |
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