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2024-04-27, 4:35 AM |
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Chapter
5: Durvâsâ
Saved:
the
Cakra-prayers of Ambarîsha
(1) S'rî S'uka said: 'Durvâsâ
['the difficulty of residing'] who being harassed by the cakra
thus was instructed by the Lord, approached Ambarîsha and clasped
sorrowfully his lotus feet. (2)
Seeing him thus engaged in touching his feet Ambarîsha felt
ashamed and therefore offered, most embarrassed as he was in his mercy,
prayers to the [disc] weapon of the Lord [see also 6.8:
23]. (3) Ambarîsha said: 'You are the fire, the supreme power
of the sun and the moon. You are the master of all the luminaries, the
waters, the earth, the sky, the air and the senses and their objects. (4)
Oh direct presence and auspicious vision [or Sudars'ana], you with your
thousands of spokes I offer my
obeisances oh love of the
Infallible One. You are the defeat of all weapons, please be favorable
unto this brahmin oh ruler of the world. (5)
You are the dharma, the
original
nature and the religion, you are the reality and the truth, you are the
sacrifice and the enjoyer of the sacrifice who maintains the worlds.
You are the soul of all and the prowess of the Transcendental Supreme
Personality. (6)
All my respects for you, the
auspicious center of spin, the measure for the complete of nature who
are like a fire of destruction to the unenlightened ones who lack in
pious conduct. You, the keeper of the three worlds with a wonderful effulgence, are of a supreme goodness and act as fast as the mind I try to voice. (7)
By your strength which carries all religiousness, the darkness
is dissipated and all directions
are illumined. Your glories are unsurpassable for the great personalities oh master of speech, your manifestation
comprises all things manifest and unmanifest, superior and lower. (8)
When you are sent to the fighters of the Daityas and
Dânavas by the
Transcendental Personality oh indefatigable one, you, staying on the
battlefield, never tire to sever their arms and bellies, necks, thighs
and legs. (9) You
oh protector of the universe, are
engaged by the all-powerful Wielder of the Mace [Lord Vishnu] to defeat
the wicked ones. Please be so good and have mercy with this scholar and
therewith
also have mercy with us and our dynasty! (10) If
there is
charity, if the worship of the deity and the duties are properly
performed and if our dynasty is blessed by the scholars, may this
brahmin then be free from having to burn [with you]? (11)
When the
one Supreme Lord, the reservoir of all qualities is satisfied about us, may then from His love as the true
self of all living beings, this
twice-born soul be spared
from the fire?'
(12) S'rî S'uka
said: 'When the disc weapon of the Lord named Sudars'ana thus was being
prayed to by the king, it because of his petitioning stopped to haress
the scholar from all sides.
(13) Durvâsâ,
being
freed
from
the
heat
of the fire of the weapon, most contented then praised the king,
that
ruler
of
the
earth,
with the best wishes. (14) Durvâsâ
said:
'What
a greatness
I may witness today of the servants of the Eternal One. Despite of the
wrong I perpetrated, you oh King, have prayed for my welfare! (15) What
indeed would be too difficult or
impossible to forsake, for those saintly, great souls, who
managed to achieve the leader Hari, the Supreme Lord of the Devotees? (16)
By simply hearing the holy
name of
Him
whose lotus feet are the holy places [the temples etc.], a person
becomes purified. What else would there remain for devotees to engage
in? (17)
Oh King, by what you did in response to my offenses you, by being so very kind, have favored me
very much and thus saved my life!'
(18) The King had been fasting when
Durvâsâ returned
and, wishing to please him, approached his feet and fed him sumptuously. (19)
After having eaten from the different foodstuffs that, catering to
every taste, were offered with the greatest care, he thus fully being
satisfied said to the king: 'Please join and eat with me' and thus
proved his respect. (20) [He
continued:] 'I'm very happy with your mercy. Seeing
you, a pure devotee with his intelligence fixed upon the Lord and
touching your feet, talking to you and enjoying your hospitality,
I am much obliged. (21) The purity of
the things you've done will for ever be sung by the women of heaven;
the world will never tire to sing the glory of your supreme
virtue!'
(22) S'rî
S'uka
continued:
'Durvâsâ thus glorifying
the king took, being satisfied in all respects,
permission to leave that place. Ascending to heaven he reached the
abode
of Brahmâ where ulterior motives have no place. (23)
With the great muni not
returning a whole year
passed in which
the king wishing to see him again, had restricted himself to drinking
water only. (24)
Upon Durvâsâ's
return Ambarîsha offered him the best food that was available and
would befit a brahmin. Upon seeing how the sage had
been released from the sin, he understood that he also owed his
strength to his devotion to the Supreme One [see also B.G. 6:
47]. (25) Thus
being blessed with all good
qualities the king was of devotion to the Supersoul, the Supreme
Spirit and to Vâsudeva with the many duties he observed, actions
from which [one realizes that] the higher you climb the deeper you fall
[compare 6.17: 28].'
(26) S'rî S'uka said: 'Ambarîsha, as the
wisest one, divided his kingdom among his
equally qualified sons, entered the forest to fix his mind upon the
True
Self of Vâsudeva and thus vanquished the waves [the gunas]
of
the ocean of matter. (27) Either by praising and reading this pious story or by
regularly meditating on it one becomes a
devotee of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. (28)
By the mercy of Lord Vishnu everyone who hears about the character of
this
great soul Ambarîsha will find liberation through his
devotion.'
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