Brahma Vaivarta Purana Chapter 25:61-70

Brahma Vaivarta Purana

Muni-mokñana

The Sage Is Rescued

Chapter 25: Verse 61-70

ENGLISH TRANSLATION 61.Child, run to another place. I cannot protect you. If you stay, the Sudarçana-cakra will kill you and me both. 62.What is Brahmaloka to the Lord's Sudarçana-cakra, which is as powerful as the Lord Himself and which can easily burn up the entire universe? Who can stop the Lord's cakra? 63.Hearing Lord Brahmä's words, the brähmaëa Durväsä fled. Trembling with fear, he took shelter of Lord Çiva on Mount Kailäsa. 64.Frightened Durväsä called out to Lord Çiva, Abode of mercy, please save me!" Lord Çiva, who already knew everything, did not ask about Durväsä's welfare. 65.Lord Çiva, the destroyer of the universe and the master of the poor, said to poor and wretched Durväsä, Be calm, O best of brähmaëas, and hear My words." 66.Lord Çiva said: You are the grandson of Lord Brahmä, the creator of the universe. You are the exalted son of Atri Muni. You are learned in the Vedas. Still, O all-knowing one, you acted like a fool. 67.You are like a fool who knows nothing of the Supreme Personality of Godhead described in all the Vedas, Puräëas, and Itihäsas. 68.-69.Brahmä, Yama, Indra, the Rudras, the Adityas, the Vasus, the Manus, the demigods, the great sages, and also I myself, are all manifest and unmanifest by the playful movement of Lord Kåñëa's eyebrow. Who will give you the power to kill a devotee that Lord Kåñëa considers more dear than life? 70.Neither Brahmä, Lakñmi, Durgä, Sarasvati, Rädhä, nor I am more dear to Lord Kåñna than his devotees.