Brahma Vaivarta Purana
The Wedding of Durväsä and Kandali
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ENGLISH TRANSLATION
51.Without any provocation she spoke harshly to her husband again and again. The great sage that made the world tremble now trembled with anger at his wife. 52.Durväsä, who was an ocean of mercy, again and again instructed her. He kept count of how many times he tolerated her insults. 53.In time there were a hundred insults. Then there were more than a hundred insults. Out of kindness Durväsä continued to tolerate them. 54.Finally the sage's heart was completely burned by his wife's repeated harsh words. The results of her past karma had finally come to an end. 55.Finally the self-satisfied kindly sage could no longer control his anger. He angrily cursed his wife, Become a pile of ashes!" 56.At this hint from the sage, she was at once burned to ashes. They who are very proud cannot find happiness anywhere in the three worlds. 57.When the body was burned to ashes the spirit soul within flew into the sky and then humbly spoke to her husband. 58.The spirit soul said: O master, with eyes of knowledge you see and know everything. What do I know? 59.-60.Kind words, harsh words, anger, satisfaction, greed, bewilderment, lust, the desires beginning with hunger and thirst, greatness, smallness, destruction, birth, sight, and blindness all belong to the material body. They have nothing to do with either the individual soul or the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
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