Brahma Vaivarta Purana Chapter 25:1-10

Brahma Vaivarta Purana

Muni-mokñana

The Sage Is Rescued

Chapter 25: Verse 1-10

ENGLISH TRANSLATION 1.Çri Närada said: How wonderful are Lord Kåñëa's auspicious pastimes! Especially in your mouth they are very, very beautiful. 2.What did Aurva Muni do when his daughter died? O sage whose wealth is austerity, please tell me this? 3.Çri Näräyaëa Åñi said: As Aurva Muni was performing austerities on the Sarasvati's shore, an aggressive wind suddenly pulled away his upper garment. 4.When the cloth fell to the ground, the great sage suddenly stopped his austerities. By meditation he could understood everything of his daughter's calamity. 5.Overwhelmed with grief, and again and again dropping tears on the ground, he hurried to his son-in-law's äçrama. 6.Unhappy at heart, he approached the äçrama. Again and again he called out, O my child!" 7.Aware that his father-in-law had come, Durväsä became frightened. He ran outside and fell at his father-in-law's feet. 8.First bowing down before his father-in-law, grieving Durväsä told him the whole story from the beginning. 9.Hearing the news, the great philosopher Aurva Muni became filled with grief. He fell to the ground, unconscious. He was like a motionless corpse. 10.Worrying that he might have died, Durväsä carefully brought Aurva back to consciousness.