Ch 15 Verse 1 Verse

Sanskrit Text

१.१५ पञ्चदशोऽध्यायः । शुकवैराग्यवर्णनम् । श्रीशुक उवाच । नाहं गृहं करिष्यामि दुःखदं सर्वदा पितः । वागुरासदृशं नित्यं बन्धनं सर्वदेहिनाम् ॥ १ ॥

English Translation

Hearing these words of Vyāsa Deva Śūka Deva said :-- O Father! I do not like at all to take to a householder’s life; as I see clearly that it fastens men, as a cord fastens animals, and is a source of incessant pain. O Father! Where can you expect happiness from a householder who is always loaded with anxiety how and whence to get wealth?

Ch 15 Verse 2 Verse

Sanskrit Text

धनचिन्तातुराणां हि क्व सुखं तात दृश्यते । स्वजनैः खलु पीड्यन्ते निर्धना लोलुपा जनाः ॥ २ ॥

English Translation

Those, who have greed for wealth, oppress their poor relatives, even; and extort money. Even one who is the lord of the three worlds, who is their Indra, he also is not so happy as a beggar, that has no desires. See, then, who else can be happy in this world?

Ch 15 Verse 3 Verse

Sanskrit Text

इन्द्रोऽपि न सुखी तादृग्यादृशो भिक्षुनिःस्पृहः । कोऽन्यः स्यादिह संसारे त्रिलोकीविभवे सति ॥ ३ ॥

English Translation

Whenever an ascetic is seen to practise severe asceticism, Indra, the lord of the Devas becomes anxious and sorry, and raises various obstacles in his way. See also that Brahmā is not happy with his big samsāra (his creation which is his house).

Ch 15 Verse 4 Verse

Sanskrit Text

तपन्तं तापसं दृष्ट्वा मघवा दुःखितोऽभवत् । विघ्नान्बहुविधानस्य करोति च दिवस्पतिः ॥ ४ ॥

English Translation

Bhagavān Viṣṇu, though He has got His beautiful Kamalā, the presiding Deity of all wealth and prosperity, is always suffering, since

Ch 15 Verse 5-6 Verse

Sanskrit Text

ब्रह्मापि न सुखी विष्णुर्लक्ष्मीं प्राप्य मनोरमाम् । खेदं प्राप्नोति सततं सङ्ग्रामैरसुरैः सह ॥ ५ ॥ करोति विपुलान्यत्नांस्तपश्चरति दुश्चरम् । रमापतिरपि श्रीमान्कस्यास्ति विपुलं सुखम् ॥ ६ ॥

English Translation

He is incessantly engaged in fighting with the Asuras; and though He is the husband of Lakṣmī and full of prosperity, He practises, almost, every now and then, terrible asceticism with great care and earnestness.

Ch 15 Verse 7 Verse

Sanskrit Text

शङ्करोऽपि सदा दुःखी भवत्येव च वेद्म्यहम् । तपश्चर्यां प्रकुर्वाणो दैत्ययुद्धकरः सदा ॥ ७ ॥

English Translation

So who else is there, who is possessed of constant happiness? I know also Bhagavān Śaṅkara, too, suffers incessant troubles and has to fight against the Daityās.

Ch 15 Verse 8 Verse

Sanskrit Text

कदाचिन्न सुखी शेते धनवानपि लोलुपः । निर्धनस्तु कथं तात सुखं प्राप्नोति मानवः ॥ ८ ॥

English Translation

So, then, O Father: how can a poor householder be happy when the rich householder cannot sleep happily, with his constant care for wealth.

Ch 15 Verse 9 Verse

Sanskrit Text

जानन्नपि महाभाग पुत्रं वा वीर्यसम्भवम् । नियोक्ष्यसि महाघोरे संसारे दुःखदे सदा ॥ ९ ॥

English Translation

O highly fortunate one! Knowing full well this truth of the world, why are you plunging me, your son, in this terrible Samsāra, full of pains and agonies.

Ch 15 Verse 10 Verse

Sanskrit Text

जन्मदुःखं जरादुःखं दुःखं च मरणे तथा । गर्भवासे पुनर्दुःखं विष्ठामूत्रमये पितः ॥ १० ॥

English Translation

O Father! What shall I say to you about the miseries of the world! There is pain in birth, pain in old age, pain in death, and pain in the life in the womb full of urines and faeces; but the pain, arising from desire and greed, is more terrible than all the pains mentioned above; and then, the pains experienced while asking for them are greater than the pangs of death.

Ch 15 Verse 11 Verse

Sanskrit Text

तस्मादतिशयं दुःखं तृष्णालोभसमुद्भवम् । याञ्चायां परमं दुःखं मरणादपि मानद ॥ ११ ॥

English Translation

Alas! There is no other way for the Brahmāns to earn their livelihood than to accept gifts from others.

Ch 15 Verse 12 Verse

Sanskrit Text

प्रतिग्रहधना विप्रा न बुद्धिबलजीवनाः । पराशा परमं दुःखं मरणं च दिने दिने ॥ १२ ॥

English Translation

Therefore the Brahmāns have to suffer daily death-like pangs in having to wait in expectation from others; can there be anything more regrettable than this?

Ch 15 Verse 13-14 Verse

Sanskrit Text

पठित्वा सकलान् वेदाञ्छास्त्राणि च समन्ततः । गत्वा च धनिनां कार्या स्तुतिः सर्वात्मना बुधैः ॥ १३ ॥ एकोदरस्य का चिन्ता पत्रमूलफलादिभिः । येनकेनाप्युपायेन सन्तुष्ट्या च प्रपूर्यते ॥ १४ ॥

English Translation

The Brahmāṇas, studying all the Vedas and Dharma Śāstras and acquiring wisdom, have got at last to go to the rich and praise them (in expectation of some money) carefully. O Father! if one does not become a householder, then what care is there to feed one’s own belly?

Ch 15 Verse 15 Verse

Sanskrit Text

भार्या पुत्रास्तथा पौत्राः कुटुम्बे विपुले सति । पूरणार्थं महद्दुःखं क्व सुखं पितरद्भुतम् ॥ १५ ॥

English Translation

If there be contentment in the mind, any how the belly can be filled with leaves, roots and fruits; but if there be wife, sons and grandsons and many dependent relatives, then to feed them all, much trouble and anxiety are experienced.

Ch 15 Verse 16 Verse

Sanskrit Text

योगशास्त्रं वद मम ज्ञानशास्त्रं सुखाकरम् । कर्मकाण्डेऽखिले तात न रमेऽहं कदाचन ॥ १६ ॥

English Translation

So how can you expect, O Father! perfect happiness in the world? So teach me, O Father! the Śāstras on Yoga and eternal truth that will give perfect happiness; no advice in karma kānḍa (the series of actions) will bring me pleasure.

Ch 15 Verse 17 Verse

Sanskrit Text

वद कर्मक्षयोपायं प्रारब्धं सञ्चितं तथा । वर्तमानं यथा नश्येत् त्रिविधं कर्ममूलजम् ॥ १७ ॥

English Translation

Now advise me how the karmas can be exhausted; how the root of the three sorts of karmas, Sancita, Prārabdha, and Vartamāna, giving torments of birth, death, etc., the Avidyā, the great ignorance, can be destroyed?

Ch 15 Verse 18 Verse

Sanskrit Text

जलूकेव सदा नारी रुधिरं पिबतीति वै । मूर्खस्तु न विजानाति मोहितो भावचेष्टितैः ॥ १८ ॥

English Translation

The fools do not understand how the women suck the blood out of persons like leeches, for they get themselves deluded by their gestures and postures!

Ch 15 Verse 19-20 Verse

Sanskrit Text

भोगैर्वीर्यं धनं पूर्णं मनः कुटिलभाषणैः । कान्ता हरति सर्वस्वं कः स्तेनस्तादृशोऽपरः ॥ १९ ॥ निद्रासुखविनाशार्थं मूर्खस्तु दारसङ्ग्रहम् । करोति वञ्चितो धात्रा दुःखाय न सुखाय च ॥ २० ॥

English Translation

The lady of the house, whom the people call kāntā, the beautiful one, steal away the semen virile, the strength and energy in the way of giving them happiness as sexual intercourse, and their minds and wealth and everything by their crooked love conversations; so see what greater thief can there be than a woman? In my opinion, those that are ignorant are certainly deluded by the Creator; they accept wife to destroy their own pleasure of happiness.

Ch 15 Verse 21 Verse

Sanskrit Text

सूत उवाच । एवंविधानि वाक्यानि श्रुत्वा व्यासः शुकस्य च । सम्प्राप महतीं चिन्तां किं करोमीत्यसंशयम् ॥ २१ ॥

English Translation

They can never understand that the women can never be the source of pleasure; they are the source of all miseries. Hearing these words of Śūka, Vyāsa became merged in the deep sea of cares and anxieties, thinking what to do then.

Ch 15 Verse 22 Verse

Sanskrit Text

तस्य सुस्रुवुरश्रूणि लोचनादुःखजानि च । वेपथुश्च शरीरेऽभूद्ग्लानिं प्राप मनस्तथा ॥ २२ ॥

English Translation

The incessant tears of pain flowed from his eyes; his whole body began to shiver and his mind became too much worried.

Ch 15 Verse 23 Verse

Sanskrit Text

शोचन्तं पितरं दृष्ट्वा दीनं शोकपरिप्लुतम् । उवाच पितरं व्यासं विस्मयोत्फुल्ललोचनः ॥ २३ ॥

English Translation

Seeing this distressed and sorrowful state of his father, Śūkdeva, with eyes full of wonder, said :-- Oh! What a power has Māyā got?

Ch 15 Verse 24 Verse

Sanskrit Text

अहो मायाबलं चोग्रं यन्मोहयति पण्डितम् । वेदान्तस्य च कर्तारं सर्वज्ञं वेदसम्मितम् ॥ २४ ॥

English Translation

Oh! He, whose words are accepted by all, with great love and care as equivalent to the Vedas, who is the author of the Vedānta Darśana, and before whom nothing is veiled in ignorance, Oh! that greatest Pundit, the knower of all the Tattvas, is now deluded by Māyā?

Ch 15 Verse 25 Verse

Sanskrit Text

न जाने का च सा माया किंस्वित्सातीव दुष्करा । या मोहयति विद्वांसं व्यासं सत्यवतीसुतम् ॥ २५ ॥

English Translation

Oh! what is that Māyā who has been able to delude Vyāsa Deva, the son of Satyavati, so skilled in the knowledge of Brahmā Vidyā; I also do not know how, with what great care, one is to practise Sādhanā towards Her.

Ch 15 Verse 26 Verse

Sanskrit Text

पुराणानां च वक्ता च निर्माता भारतस्य च । विभागकर्ता वेदानां सोऽपि मोहमुपागतः ॥ २६ ॥

English Translation

Alas! He who has composed eighteen Mahā Purāṇas and the great Mahā Bhārata, who has divided the Vedas in four parts, the same Veda Vyās has today been deluded by the power of Māyā! What to speak of other persons!

Ch 15 Verse 27-28 Verse

Sanskrit Text

तां यामि शरणं देवीं या मोहयति वै जगत् । ब्रह्मविष्णुहरादींश्च कथान्येषां च कीदृशी ॥ २७ ॥ कोऽप्यस्ति त्रिषु लोकेषु यो न मुह्यति मायया । यन्मोहं गमिताः पूर्वे ब्रह्मविष्णुहरादयः ॥ २८ ॥

English Translation

Oh! Māyā has deluded Brahmā, Viṣṇu, Maheśvara and others and the whole universe; then who is there in the three worlds that is not fascinated by Her influence! I therefore, take refuge unto the Internal Governess, the Devī Mahā Māyā.

Ch 15 Verse 29 Verse

Sanskrit Text

अहो बलमहो वीर्यं देव्या खलु विनिर्मितम् । माययैव वशं नीतः सर्वज्ञ ईश्वरः प्रभुः ॥ २९ ॥

English Translation

Oh! what wonderful power She wields? By her own Māyic power, She has kept God even under Her control, who is omniscient and the Controller of all.

Ch 15 Verse 30 Verse

Sanskrit Text

विष्ण्वंशसम्भवो व्यास इति पौराणिका जगुः । सोऽपि मोहार्णवे मग्नो भग्नपोतो वणिग्यथा ॥ ३० ॥

English Translation

The Pundits, who know the Purāṇas say, that Vyāsa Deva is born of the part of Viṣṇu; but, see the wonder, that he is today plunged in the sea of delusion like a merchant whose ship has been wrecked.

Ch 15 Verse 31 Verse

Sanskrit Text

अश्रुपातं करोत्यद्य विवशः प्राकृतो यथा । अहो मायाबलं चैतद्दुस्त्यजं पण्डितैरपि ॥ ३१ ॥

English Translation

Alas! How great is the wonderful power of Māyā! The all-knowing Vyāsa is today under the control of Māyā and is weeping like an ordinary man! So I have come to the firm conclusion that the wise Pundits are incapable to surpass the strength of Māyā. What a great error arises through the power of Māyā!

Ch 15 Verse 32 Verse

Sanskrit Text

कोऽयं कोऽहं कथं चेह कीदृशोऽयं भ्रमः किल । पञ्चभूतात्मके देहे पितापुत्रेति वासना ॥ ३२ ॥

English Translation

See! indeed!! who is he and who am I? What for we have come here? There is no certainty, nothing whatsoever, about that. And, see, also, how he has got the nice idea of “father” on his body and the idea of “his son” in my body, that are composed of five elements.

Ch 15 Verse 33 Verse

Sanskrit Text

बलिष्ठा खलु मायेयं मायिनामपि मोहिनी । ययाभिभूतः कृष्णोऽपि करोति रोदनं द्विजः ॥ ३३ ॥

English Translation

This is now quite evident to me that, when the Brāhmin Maharṣi Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyan is weeping under the influence of Māyā, She is the strongest of all; even those who are skilled in the great Māyā fall under Her prey.

Ch 15 Verse 34-35 Verse

Sanskrit Text

सूत उवाच । तां नत्वा मनसा देवीं सर्वकारणकारणाम् । जननीं सर्वदेवानां ब्रह्मादीनां तथेश्वरीम् ॥ ३४ ॥ पितरं प्राह दीनं तं शोकार्णवपरिप्लुतम् । अरणीसम्भवो व्यासं हेतुमद्वचनं शुभम् ॥ ३५ ॥

English Translation

Then Śūka Deva bowed down mentally to the Devī, Mahā Māyā, who is the Creatrix of Brahmā and the other Devas and who is the Controller of them all; and then began to speak the following auspicious words pregnant with reason, to his father Vyāsa Deva, greatly distressed and plunged in the sea of sorrows :--

Ch 15 Verse 36 Verse

Sanskrit Text

पाराशर्य महाभाग सर्वेषां बोधदः स्वयम् । किं शोकं कुरुषे स्वामिन्यथाज्ञः प्राकृतो नरः ॥ ३६ ॥

English Translation

“O Father! you are exceedingly fortunate, for you are the son of the high souled Parāśara and you yourself are the instructor of real truth, the tattva jñāna, to all persons; so, O Lord! why are you giving vent to sorrows, like an ordinary bewildered man?

Ch 15 Verse 37 Verse

Sanskrit Text

अद्याहं तव पुत्रोऽस्मि न जाने पूर्वजन्मनि । कोऽहं कस्त्वं महाभाग विभ्रमोऽयं महात्मनि ॥ ३७ ॥

English Translation

O Mahābhāga! why are you plunging yourself in this great error, though you are a high souled personage! See, it is quite true that now I am born as your son; but this I don’t know what relation existed between you and me in my previous birth?

Ch 15 Verse 38 Verse

Sanskrit Text

कुरु धैर्यं प्रबुध्यस्व मा विषादे मनः कृथाः । मोहजालमिमं मत्वा मुञ्च शोकं महामते ॥ ३८ ॥

English Translation

So, O highly intelligent one! Open your eyes of wisdom, and be patient; do not throw yourself, in vain, in the sea of sorrows.

Ch 15 Verse 39 Verse

Sanskrit Text

क्षुधानिवृत्तिर्भक्ष्येण न पुत्रदर्शनेन च । पिपासा जलपानेन याति नैवात्मजेक्षणात् ॥ ३९ ॥

English Translation

All this universe is like a net of delusion; knowing this, abandon all your grief; why are you feeling yourself so much weak and distressed, for your attachment towards your son? Hunger is satisfied by eating something, and thirst is satisfied by the drinking of water; hunger is not satisfied by seeing the son.

Ch 15 Verse 40 Verse

Sanskrit Text

घ्राणं सुखं सुगन्धेन कर्णजं श्रवणेन च । स्त्रीसुखं तु स्त्रिया नूनं पुत्रोऽहं किं करोमि ते ॥ ४० ॥

English Translation

So the organ of scent is satisfied by smelling sweet scents; and the organ of hearing is satisfied by hearing sweet music; and when thirst arises to enjoy women, that is satisfied only by sexual intercourse; but what satisfaction can a son give? So what shall I do to you by remaining as your son? The son, in fact, is not the cause of any satisfaction to one’s self.

Ch 15 Verse 41 Verse

Sanskrit Text

अजीगर्तेन पुत्रोऽपि हरिश्चन्द्राय भूभुजे । पशुकामाय यज्ञार्थे दत्तो मौल्येन सर्वथा ॥ ४१ ॥

English Translation

For this reason, in ancient days, the poor Brahmin Ajigarta gave his son to the king Hariscandra, for necessary equivalent price in money, who wanted a man for his sacrifice where human beings are to be sacrificed as victims.

Ch 15 Verse 42 Verse

Sanskrit Text

सुखानां साधनं द्रव्यं धनात्सुखसमुच्चयः । धनमर्जय लोभश्चेत्पुत्रोऽहं किं करोम्यहम् ॥ ४२ ॥

English Translation

In fact, those things that are urgently required as necessities give happiness; and all these articles can be obtained by wealth; so if you want to enjoy happiness, then earn money; of what use shall I be to you as your son?

Ch 15 Verse 43 Verse

Sanskrit Text

मां प्रबोधय बुद्ध्या त्वं दैवज्ञोऽसि महामते । यथा मुच्येयमत्यन्तं गर्भवासभयान्मुने ॥ ४३ ॥

English Translation

O Muni! you can see subtle things and you are greatly intelligent; so I pray to you, to look upon me as your son and open my eyes of wisdom, that I can be free for ever from this womb of birth.

Ch 15 Verse 44-45 Verse

Sanskrit Text

दुर्लभं मानुषं जन्म कर्मभूमाविहानघ । तत्रापि ब्राह्मणत्वं वै दुर्लभं चोत्तमे कुले ॥ ४४ ॥ बद्धोऽहमिति मे बुद्धिर्नापसर्पति चित्ततः । संसारवासनाजाले निविष्टा वृद्धिगामिनी ॥ ४५ ॥

English Translation

O Sinless one! To get a human birth in this land of Karma (in India) is very difficult; again to get a Brāhmin birth is extremely rare; so when I have got this so very rare birth, why shall I spend my time in vain? O Father! Though I have served many spiritual teachers, fraught with wisdom, for many years, yet the firm idea “I am, as it were, bound up in this net of Samsāra” the notion covered with dark darkness of ignorance, caused by desires, this net of Samsāra does not leave me.

Ch 15 Verse 46-47 Verse

Sanskrit Text

सूत उवाच । इत्युक्तस्तु तदा व्यासः पुत्रेणामितबुद्धिना । प्रत्युवाच शुकं शान्तं चतुर्थाश्रममानसम् ॥ ४६ ॥ व्यास उवाच । पठ पुत्र महाभाग मया भागवतं कृतम् । शुभं न चातिविस्तीर्णं पुराणं ब्रह्मसम्मितम् ॥ ४७ ॥

English Translation

When the son Śūka Deva of extraordinary power and intelligence spoke thus, Vyāsa saw that his son was strongly inclined to take to the four Āśram, that of Sannyāsa and spoke thus :-- O Son! If your mind has become so, then read Bhāgavat Purāṇa, composed by me, highly auspicious, voluminous, and the second Vedas.

Ch 15 Verse 48 Verse

Sanskrit Text

स्कन्धा द्वादश तत्रैव पञ्चलक्षणसंयुतम् । सर्वेषां च पुराणानां भूषणं मम सम्मतम् ॥ ४८ ॥

English Translation

In this you have the chapters on Creation (Sarga) and secondary creation (upa sarga), etc., the five characteristics as in other Purāṇas and it is sub-divided into twelve Skandhas. Hearing of this Bhāgavata brings up to the mind that Brahmā alone is real and all the universe is unreal and knowledge both intuitive and indirect springs up. For this very reason, the Bhāgavata treatise is considered as the ornament of the Purāṇas.

Ch 15 Verse 49-50 Verse

Sanskrit Text

सदसज्ज्ञानविज्ञानं श्रुतमात्रेण जायते । येन भागवतेनेह तत्पठ त्वं महामते ॥ ४९ ॥ वटपत्रशयानाय विष्णवे बालरूपिणे । केनास्मि बालभावेन निर्मितोऽहं चिदात्मना ॥ ५० ॥

English Translation

Therefore, O highly intelligent one! you better study the Purāṇa. O Child! In days of yore, at the end of a Kalpa, Bhagavān Hari was lying, as a small child on a floating leaf of a banyan tree, and was thinking thus :--

Ch 15 Verse 51 Verse

Sanskrit Text

किमर्थं केन द्रव्येण कथं जानामि चाखिलम् । इत्येवं चिन्त्यमानाय मुकुन्दाय महात्मने ॥ ५१ ॥

English Translation

:-- “Who is the Intelligent One that has created me a small child? What is His object? Of what stuff am I made of? and how am I created? whence can I know all this?”

Ch 15 Verse 52 Verse

Sanskrit Text

श्लोकार्धेन तया प्रोक्तं भगवत्याखिलार्थदम् । सर्वं खल्विदमेवाहं नान्यदस्ति सनातनम् ॥ ५२ ॥

English Translation

At this moment the Devī Bhagavatī Who is all caitanya, seeing the high-souled Bhagavān Hari musing thus, spoke out in the form of a celestial voice in the following half-stanza:--

Ch 15 Verse 53 Verse

Sanskrit Text

तद्वचो विष्णुना पूर्वं संविज्ञातं मनस्यपि । केनोक्ता वागियं सत्या चिन्तयामास चेतसा ॥ ५३ ॥

English Translation

“All this that is seen is I Myself; there is existent nothing other that is eternal.” Bhagavān Viṣṇu, then, began to think deeply the above celestial voice :--

Ch 15 Verse 54 Verse

Sanskrit Text

कथं वेद्मि प्रवक्तारं स्त्रीपुंसौ वा नपुंसकम् । इति चिन्ताप्रपन्नेन धृतं भागवतं हृदि ॥ ५४ ॥

English Translation

:-- “Who has uttered this word, pregnant of truth, to me? How shall I come to know the speaker, whether that is female, male or a hermaphrodite?”

Ch 15 Verse 55 Verse

Sanskrit Text

पुनः पुनः कृतोच्चारस्तस्मिनेवास्तचेतसा । वटपत्रे शयानः सन्नभूच्चिन्तासमन्वितः ॥ ५५ ॥

English Translation

Pondering over this for a long time, when he could not come to a definite conclusion, he began to repeat (make japam) frequently that word of Bhagavatī with a whole heart.

Ch 15 Verse 56-57 Verse

Sanskrit Text

तदा शान्ता भगवती प्रादुरास चतुर्भुजा । शङ्खचक्रगदापद्मवरायुधधरा शिवा ॥ ५६ ॥ दिव्याम्बरधरा देवी दिव्यभूषणभूषिता । संयुता सदृशीभिश्च सखीभिः स्वविभूतिभिः ॥ ५७ ॥

English Translation

When Hari, lying on a banyan tree leaf, became very anxious to know what the above words implied, then the all-auspicious Devī Bhagavatī with a beautiful face, calm and quiet appearance, appeared before Bhagavān Viṣṇu, of unrivalled splendour, in the form of Mahā Lakṣmī, who is all of Sattva Guṇa, surrounded by Her Vibhūtis, Her manifestations of attendents,

Ch 15 Verse 58 Verse

Sanskrit Text

प्रादुर्बभूव तस्याग्रे विष्णोरमिततेजसः । मन्दहास्यं प्रयुञ्जाना महालक्ष्मीः शुभानना ॥ ५८ ॥

English Translation

Her smiling companions of the same age, decked with ornaments, and wearing divine clothings, and holding each in their four divine hands, conch shell, disc, club, and lotus.

Ch 15 Verse 59-61 Verse

Sanskrit Text

सूत उवाच । तां तथा संस्थितां दृष्ट्वा हृदये कमलेक्षणः । विस्मितः सलिले तस्मिन्निराधारा मनोरमाम् ॥ ५९ ॥ रतिर्भूतिस्तथा बुद्धिर्मतिः कीर्तिः स्मृतिर्धृतिः । श्रद्धा मेधा स्वधा स्वाहा क्षुधा निद्रा दया गतिः ॥ ६० ॥ तुष्टिः पुष्टिः क्षमा लज्जा जृम्भा तन्द्रा च शक्तयः । संस्थिताः सर्वतः पार्श्वे महादेव्याः पृथक्पृथक् ॥ ६१ ॥

English Translation

The lotus eyed Viṣṇu was very much surprised to see that beautiful Devī, standing without anything to rest on that water; He saw that on four sides of the Devī, were staying Rati, Bhūti, Buddhi, Mati, Kīrti, Smriti, Dhriti, Śraddhā, Medhā, Svadhā, Svāhā, Kshudhā, Nidrā, Dayā, Gati, Tuṣṭi, Puṣṭi, Kṣamā, Lajjā, Jrimbhā Tandrā and other personified forces, each possessing a clear distinct form, and endowed with a clear distinct feeling.

Ch 15 Verse 62 Verse

Sanskrit Text

वरायुधधराः सर्वा नानाभूषणभूषिताः । मन्दारमालाकुलिता मुक्ताहारविराजिताः ॥ ६२ ॥

English Translation

In the hands of them all were divine weapons; on their necks, necklaces and garlands of Mandāra flowers; and all the limbs of their bodies were decorated with divine ornaments.

Ch 15 Verse 63 Verse

Sanskrit Text

तां दृष्ट्वा ताश्च संवीक्ष्य तस्मिन्नेकार्णवे जले । विस्मयाविष्टहृदयः सम्बभूव जनार्दनः ॥ ६३ ॥

English Translation

Seeing in that one mass of ocean the Devī Lakṣmī and Her Śaktis, Bhagavān Janārdan, the soul of all, became greatly astonished and thought within Himself thus :-- “What is this? Is this Māyā that I am witnessing?

Ch 15 Verse 64-65 Verse

Sanskrit Text

चिन्तयामास सर्वात्मा दृष्टमायोऽतिविस्मितः । कुतो भूताः स्त्रियः सर्वाः कुतोऽहं वटतल्पगः ॥ ६४ ॥ अस्मिन्नेकार्णवे घोरे न्यग्रोधः कथमुत्थितः । केनाहं स्थापितोऽस्म्यत्र शिशुं कृत्वा शुभाकृतिम् ॥ ६५ ॥

English Translation

Whence have appeared these women? and whence have I come here, lying on this banyan leaf? How has the banyan tree come to existence in this one mass of ocean? And who is it, that has placed me here in the form of a child? Is this my Mother? Or is this some Māyā that can create impossible things? Why has She made Herself manifest before me now? Or is there some hidden motive that She has appeared thus? What ought I to do now? Or shall I go to some other place?

Ch 15 Verse 66-67 Verse

Sanskrit Text

ममेयं जननी नो वा माया वा कापि दुर्घटा । दर्शनं केनचित्त्वद्य दत्तं वा केन हेतुना ॥ ६६ ॥ किं मया चात्र वक्तव्यं गन्तव्यं वा न वा क्वचित् । मौनमास्थाय तिष्ठेयं बालभावादतन्द्रितः ॥ ६७ ॥

Sanskrit Colophon

इति श्रीमद्देवीभागवते महापुराणेऽष्टादशसाहस्र्यां संहितायां प्रथमस्कन्धे शुकवैराग्यवर्णनं नाम पञ्चदशोऽध्यायः ॥ १.१५॥

English Translation

Why has She made Herself manifest before me now? Or is there some hidden motive that She has appeared thus? What ought I to do now? Or shall I go to some other place? or shall I continue remaining here in this form of the child, silent and with vigilance. Thus ends the fifteenth chapter of the 1st Skandha on the dispassion of Śūka and the instructions of Bhagavatī to Hari in the Mahāpurāṇa Śrī Mad Devī Bhāgavatam of 18,000 verses by Maharṣi Veda Vyāsa.