Brahma Vaivarta Purana
The Sage Is Rescued
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ENGLISH TRANSLATION
21.Speaking these words, lamenting, and again and again calling out, Child! O child!", Aurva Muni angrily returned to his home. 22.After Aurva Muni's departure, Durväsä lamented again and again. He tried with spiritual knowledge to forget his grief. It came back double. 23.In time the fire of grief became covered with the ashes of knowledge, but then the firewood of the memory of his wife made it blaze up again. 24.Remembering and remembering his dear wife, he lamented again and again. Then, thinking that he was deeply in illusion, he fixed his mind on performing austerities. 25.Thus I have told you the whole reason for Durväsä Muni's curse. In time he met with a defeat he could not avoid. 26.Çri Närada said: Durväsä is a partial incarnation of Lord Çiva. He is powerful like Lord Çiva Himself. Who was the powerful person that defeated him? 27.Çri Näräyaëa Åñi said: O sage, that powerful person was the great king Ambariña, who was born in the Sürya dynasty, and who fixed his thoughts always on Lord Kåñna's lotus feet. 28.Not for a moment did he place his thoughts on his kingdom, wives, children, citizens, royal assembly, or anything else earned by his previous karma. 29.Day and night, awake and asleep, he happily meditated on Lord Kåñëa. He was peaceful, noble, religious, and in control of his senses. He devotedly followed vows for the pleasure of Lord Kåñna. 30.He was especially devoted to the worship of Lord Kåñëa and the vow of fasting on ekädaçi. He did everything as an offering to Lord Kåñëa. |
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