Ch 30 Verse 1-2 Verse

Sanskrit Text

६.३० त्रिंशोऽध्यायः । मायाप्राबल्यवर्णनम् । नारद उवाच । मां दृष्ट्वा नारदं विप्रं विस्मितोऽसौ महीपतिः । क्व गता मम भार्या सा कुतोऽयं मुनिसत्तमः ॥ १ ॥ विललाप नृपस्तत्र हा प्रियेति मुहुर्मुहुः । क्व गता मां परित्यज्य विलपन्तं वियोगिनम् ॥ २ ॥

English Translation

Nārada said :-- O Best of Munis! The King was greatly astonished to see me dip in the tank in a female figure and get up from the tank in a male figure and thought, “Where is my dearest wife? And how is this Nārada Muni suddenly come here!” The King, not seeing his wife, lamented very much and cried frequently, “O my dear Wife! Where have you gone, leaving me here thus.

Ch 30 Verse 3-4 Verse

Sanskrit Text

विना त्वां विपुलश्रोणि वृथा मे जीवितं गृहम् । राज्यं कमलपत्राक्षि किं करोमि शुचिस्मिते ॥ ३ ॥ न प्राणा मे बहिर्यान्ति विरहेण तवाधुना । गतो वै प्रीतिधर्मस्तु त्वामृते प्राणधारणात् ॥ ४ ॥

English Translation

Without you, O One of spacious hips! My life, palace and kingdom, all, are quite useless. O Lotus-eyed one! What shall I do? O Smiling One! Why is not my life getting out of my body, suffering thus from thy separation? Without you, my sentiment of love has left me for ever.

Ch 30 Verse 5 Verse

Sanskrit Text

विलपामि विशालाक्षि देहि प्रत्युत्तरं प्रियम् । क्व गता सा मयि प्रीतिर्याभूत्प्रथमसङ्गमे ॥ ५ ॥

English Translation

O Large-eyed One! Now I am lamenting for you. O Dear! Better give me your sweet reply; the love that you expressed at our first union, where has it gone now?

Ch 30 Verse 6-7 Verse

Sanskrit Text

निमग्ना किं जले सुभ्रूर्भक्षिता मत्स्यकच्छपैः । गृहीता वरुणेनाशु मम दौर्भाग्ययोगतः ॥ ६ ॥ धन्या सुचारुसर्वाङ्गि या त्वं पुत्रैः समागता । अकृत्रिमस्तु पुत्रेषु स्नेहस्तेऽमृतभाषिणि ॥ ७ ॥

English Translation

O One with good eyebrows! Are you sunk in the water and have you given up your life? Or are you devoured by fishes or crocodiles? Or are you carried away by Varuṇa, the Deva of the waters, to my great misfortune? O One of beautiful limbs!

Ch 30 Verse 8-9 Verse

Sanskrit Text

न युक्तमधुना यन्मां विहाय त्रिदिवं गता । विलपन्तं पतिं दीनं पुत्रस्नेहेन यन्त्रिता ॥ ८ ॥ उभयं मे गतं कान्ते पुत्रास्त्वं प्राणवल्लभा । तथापि मरणं नास्ति दुःखितस्य भृशं प्रिये ॥ ९ ॥

English Translation

You are blessed, as you have gone away with your sons; O sweet-speaking One! Your affection for them was not artificial. Is it right for you to go up to the Heavens, attached by affection for your sons, leaving me your distressed husband alone, thus weeping for your separation?

Ch 30 Verse 10 Verse

Sanskrit Text

किं करोमि क्व गच्छामि रामो नास्ति महीतले । रामाविरहजं दुःखं जानाति रघुनन्दनः ॥ १० ॥

English Translation

O Dear! I have lost both, you and my sons; yet death is not carrying me away; O! How hard is my lot! What to do? Where to go? Rāma is not now in this world. He knew what was the pain caused by the separation from one’s dearest wife.

Ch 30 Verse 11 Verse

Sanskrit Text

विधिना निष्ठुरेणात्र विपरीतं कृतं भुवि । दम्पत्योर्मरणं भिन्नं सर्वथा समचित्तयोः ॥ ११ ॥

English Translation

Oh! The cruel Fate has ordained very unwisely with great inconsistency the periods of parting from one another at different periods; when their minds and all other things are exactly the same in all circumstances of pleasure and pain.

Ch 30 Verse 12-13 Verse

Sanskrit Text

उपकारस्तु नारीणां मुनिभिर्विहितः किल । यदुक्तं धर्मशास्त्रेषु ज्वलनं पतिना सह ॥ १२ ॥ एवं विलपमानं तं राजानं भगवान्हरिः । निवारयामास तदा वचनैर्युक्तियोजितैः ॥ १३ ॥

English Translation

The practice of Satī (burning with one’s deceased husband), as ordained by the Munis, is certainly for the good of the chaste women; but it would have been good no doubt, were there such practices allowed for the men to burn themselves with their deceased wives.” Bhagavān Hari then spoke to the lamenting King in reasonable words and consoled him thus :--

Ch 30 Verse 14 Verse

Sanskrit Text

श्रीभगवानुवाच । किं विषीदसि राजेन्द्र क्व गता ते प्रियाङ्गना । न श्रुतं किं त्वया शास्त्रं न कृतोऽसौ बुधाश्रयः ॥ १४ ॥

English Translation

:-- “O King! Why are you thus troubling yourself with pain and sorrow? Where has gone your dearest wife? Have you not heard anything of Śāstras? or Have you not taken any shelter of any wise man!

Ch 30 Verse 15 Verse

Sanskrit Text

का सा कस्त्वं क्व संयोगो वियोगः कीदृशस्तव । प्रवाहरूपे संसारे नृणां नौतरतामिव ॥ १५ ॥

English Translation

Who was your wife? Who are you? Of what nature was your union and disunion and where did it take place? The union of wives and sons in this Śamsāra is momentary like the meetings of persons on boats, while crossing a river.

Ch 30 Verse 16 Verse

Sanskrit Text

गृहे गच्छ नृपश्रेष्ठ वृथा ते रुदितेन किम् । संयोगश्च वियोगश्च दैवाधीनः सदा नृणाम् ॥ १६ ॥

English Translation

O King! Now go home, there is no use in your weeping thus in vain; the union and disunion of men are always under the control of Fate, the Daiva; therefore the wise should not lament for them.

Ch 30 Verse 17 Verse

Sanskrit Text

अनया सह ते राजन् संयोगस्त्विह संवृतः । भुक्ता त्वया विशालाक्षी सुन्दरी तनुमध्यमा ॥ १७ ॥

English Translation

O King! Your union with the woman took place here; and now you have lost that beautiful, thin-bodied, large-eyed woman here also.

Ch 30 Verse 18 Verse

Sanskrit Text

न दृष्टौ पितरावस्यास्त्वया प्राप्ता सरोवरे । काकतालीप्रसङ्गेन यद्भूतं तत्तथा गतम् ॥ १८ ॥

English Translation

Her father and mother you have not seen; you have got her like what is heard in the story of the crow and the Tāl fruit; as you got her wonderfully, so you have lost her wonderfully.

Ch 30 Verse 19-20 Verse

Sanskrit Text

मा शोकं कुरु राजेन्द्र कालो हि दुरतिक्रमः । कालयोगं समासाद्य भुङ्क्ष्व भोगान् गृहे यथा ॥ १९ ॥ यथागता गता सा तु तथैव वरवर्णिनी । यथा पूर्वं तथा तत्र गच्छ कार्यं कुरु प्रभो ॥ २० ॥

English Translation

O King! Do not grieve; Time cannot be ruled over; go home and enjoy yourself subservient to Time. That beautiful woman has gone away in the manner she came to you; you ought to do your stately affairs in the way as you used to do before as the ruler of all.

Ch 30 Verse 21-22 Verse

Sanskrit Text

रुदितेन तवाद्यैव नागमिष्यति कामिनी । वृथा शोचसि पृध्वीश योगयुक्तो भवाधुना ॥ २१ ॥ भोगः कालवशादेति तथैव प्रतियाति च । नात्र शोकस्तु कर्तव्यो निष्फले भववर्त्मनि ॥ २२ ॥

English Translation

O King! Consider that if you weep day and night, that women will never return; why then are you giving vent to your sorrows in vain? Go now and have recourse to the path of the Yoga and thus while away your time.

Ch 30 Verse 23 Verse

Sanskrit Text

नैकत्र सुखसंयोगो दुःखयोगस्तु नैकतः । घटिकायन्त्रवत्कामं भ्रमणं सुखदुःखयोः ॥ २३ ॥

English Translation

The enjoyable things come in course of time and they go away again in due course; therefore in this world of no gain whatsoever, the wise should never lament. Continuous pleasure or continuous pain does not always take place; pleasure and pain are never steady; they rotate always like a rotary instrument.

Ch 30 Verse 24 Verse

Sanskrit Text

मनः कृत्वा स्थिरं भूप कुरु राज्यं यथासुखम् । अथवा न्यस्य दायादे वनं सेवय साम्प्रतम् ॥ २४ ॥

English Translation

Therefore, O King! Make your mind calm and quiet and rule happily your kingdom; or make over the charge of the kingdom to your sons and retire to the forest.

Ch 30 Verse 25 Verse

Sanskrit Text

दुर्लभो मानुषो देहः प्राणिनां क्षणभङ्गुरः । तस्मिन्प्राप्ते तु कर्तव्यं सर्वथैवात्मसाधनम् ॥ २५ ॥

English Translation

This human body is seldom obtained; it is frail; therefore getting that body it is advisable to practise the realisation of the Supreme.

Ch 30 Verse 26 Verse

Sanskrit Text

जिह्वोपस्थरसो राजन् पशुयोनिषु वर्तते । ज्ञानं मानुषदेहे वै नान्यासु च कुयोनिषु ॥ २६ ॥

English Translation

O King! This organ of generation and this tongue reside also with the beasts, the peculiarity of human body is that knowledge can be realised in it; not in any other inferior births.

Ch 30 Verse 27 Verse

Sanskrit Text

तस्माद्गच्छ गृहं त्यक्त्वा शोकं कान्तासमुद्भवम् । मायेयं भगवत्यास्तु यया सम्मोहितं जगत् ॥ २७ ॥

English Translation

Therefore leave your home, leave your sorrows for your wife; all this is the Māyā of Bhagavān; by Her the world is deluded.”

Ch 30 Verse 28 Verse

Sanskrit Text

नारद उवाच । इत्युक्तो हरिणा राजा प्रणम्य कमलापतिम् । कृत्वा स्नानविधिं सम्यग्जगाम निजमन्दिरम् ॥ २८ ॥

English Translation

Nārada said :-- Bhagavān Hari speaking thus, the King bowed down to Him, the Deva of the Devas and finishing the bathing duties returned to his home.

Ch 30 Verse 29 Verse

Sanskrit Text

दत्त्वा राज्यं स्वपौत्राय प्राप्य निर्वेदमद्भुतम् । वनं जगाम भूपालस्तत्त्वज्ञानमवाप च ॥ २९ ॥

English Translation

He then became possessed of dispassion and discrimination and making over the charge of his kingdom to his grandsons retired to the forest and realised the Supreme Knowledge.

Ch 30 Verse 30 Verse

Sanskrit Text

गते राजन्यहं वीक्ष्य भगवन्तमधोक्षजम् । तमब्रवं जगन्नाथं हसन्तं मां पुनः पुनः ॥ ३० ॥

English Translation

When the King went away, the Bhagavān began to laugh and laugh, seeing me again and again. I then told him, “O Deva! You have deceived me.

Ch 30 Verse 31 Verse

Sanskrit Text

वञ्चितोऽहं त्वया देव ज्ञातं मायाबलं महत् । स्मरामि चरितं सर्वं स्त्रीदेहे यत्कृतं मया ॥ ३१ ॥

English Translation

I now come to know how great is the power of Māyā. O Janārdana! Now I remember all that I did in my feminine form.

Ch 30 Verse 32 Verse

Sanskrit Text

ब्रूहि मे देवदेवेश प्रविष्टोऽहं सरोवरे । विगतं पूर्वविज्ञानं स्नानादेव कथं हरे ॥ ३२ ॥

English Translation

Tell me, O Hari! O Deva of the Devas! How I lost my previous consciousness, when I got down into the tank and bathed in it.

Ch 30 Verse 33 Verse

Sanskrit Text

योषिद्देहं समासाद्य मोहितोऽहं जगद्गुरो । पतिं प्राप्य नृपश्रेष्ठं पुलोमी वासवं यथा ॥ ३३ ॥

English Translation

O Lord of the world! Why was I enchanted, when I got the female form and when I got the King as my husband like Śacī’s getting Indra.

Ch 30 Verse 34 Verse

Sanskrit Text

मनस्तदेव तच्चित्तं देहः स च पुरातनः । लिङ्गं तदेव देवेश स्मृतेर्नाशः कथं हरे ॥ ३४ ॥

English Translation

The same mind I had; the old Jivātmā was there and the previous subtle body was there; how, then, I lost their memories?

Ch 30 Verse 35 Verse

Sanskrit Text

विस्मयोऽयं महान्मेऽत्र ज्ञाननाशं प्रति प्रभो । कथयाद्य रमाकान्त कारणं परमं च यत् ॥ ३५ ॥

English Translation

O Lord! Give out the cause of it and clear my doubts; a great doubt has arisen in my mind.

Ch 30 Verse 36 Verse

Sanskrit Text

नारीदेहं मया प्राप्य भुक्ता भोगा ह्यनेकशः । सुरापानं कृतं नित्यं विधिहीनं च भोजनम् ॥ ३६ ॥

English Translation

Many enjoyments I had in my female form, drinking liquor and other prohibited things I tasted; O Slayer of Madhu! What is the cause of all these?

Ch 30 Verse 37 Verse

Sanskrit Text

मया तदेव न ज्ञातं नारदोऽहमिति स्फुटम् । जानाम्यद्य यथा सर्वं विविक्तं न तथा तदा ॥ ३७ ॥

English Translation

I could not know then that I was Nārada, as I now recognise clearly what I was in and what I did in my female form. Say the Why of all these things.”

Ch 30 Verse 38 Verse

Sanskrit Text

विष्णुरुवाच । पश्य नारद मायावी विलासोऽयं महामते । देहेषु सर्वजन्तूनां दशाभेदा ह्यनेकशः ॥ ३८ ॥

English Translation

Viṣṇu said :-- “Know, O Intelligent Nārada! That all this is merely the Pastime of Māyā. There are many states going on in the bodies of all the living beings.

Ch 30 Verse 39 Verse

Sanskrit Text

जाग्रत्स्वप्नसुषुप्तिश्च तुरीया देहिनां दशा । तथा देहान्तरे प्राप्ते सन्देहः कीदृशः पुनः ॥ ३९ ॥

English Translation

The embodied beings have got their waking, dream, deep sleep and Tūriya (beyond all the three above-mentioned) states; then why you doubt that when there is another body, there would be also the change in the states?

Ch 30 Verse 40 Verse

Sanskrit Text

सुप्तो नरो न जानाति न शृणोति वदत्यपि । पुनः प्रबुद्धो जानाति सर्वं ज्ञातमशेषतः ॥ ४० ॥

English Translation

When a man sleeps, he knows not anything, he does not hear anything; but when he gets awake, he again comes to know everything completely.

Ch 30 Verse 41 Verse

Sanskrit Text

निद्रया चाल्यते चित्तं भवन्ति स्वप्नसम्भवाः । नानाविधा मनोभेदा मनोभावा ह्यनेकशः ॥ ४१ ॥

English Translation

The Chitta gets itself moved by sleep; then mind gets different states by dreams and there arises a variety of feelings.

Ch 30 Verse 42 Verse

Sanskrit Text

गजो मां हन्तुमायाति न शक्तोऽस्मि पलायने । किं करोमि न मे स्थानं यत्र गच्छामि सत्वरः ॥ ४२ ॥

English Translation

A mad elephant is coming to kill me, and I am not able to fly away. What to do? Where to go? There is no place where I can quickly go; thus, in dreams, there arise different mental states.

Ch 30 Verse 43 Verse

Sanskrit Text

मृतं पितामहं स्वप्ने पश्यति स्वगृहागतम् । संयोगस्तेन वार्ता च भोजनं सह मन्यते ॥ ४३ ॥

English Translation

Sometimes we see in dreams that our departed grandfathers are come in our houses. I am seeing them, talking with them and I am dining with them.

Ch 30 Verse 44 Verse

Sanskrit Text

प्रबुद्धः खलु जानाति स्वप्ने दृष्टं सुखासुखम् । स्मृत्वा सर्वं जनेभ्यस्तु विस्तरात्प्रवदत्यपि ॥ ४४ ॥

English Translation

Whatever pain and pleasure are felt in dreams, when they awake, they know of what happened in their dreams and can also describe in details, recollecting what had then happened.

Ch 30 Verse 45 Verse

Sanskrit Text

स्वप्नेकोऽपि न जानाति भ्रमोऽयमिति निश्चयः । तथा तथैव विभवो मायाया दुर्गमः किल ॥ ४५ ॥

English Translation

O Nārada! Know the power of Māyā incomprehensible as the things seen in dreams cannot be certainly known that all those are false.

Ch 30 Verse 46 Verse

Sanskrit Text

नाहं नारद जानामि पारं परमदुर्घटम् । गुणानां किल मायाया नैव शम्भुर्न पद्मजः ॥ ४६ ॥

English Translation

O Muni! Neither I, nor Śambhu, nor Brahmā can measure the power wielded by Māyā and Her three Guṇas, very hard to fathom. How, then, can any ordinary mortal know them! Therefore, O Nārada! None is able to fathom the Māyā.

Ch 30 Verse 47-49 Verse

Sanskrit Text

कोऽन्यो ज्ञातुं समर्थोऽभून्मानतो मन्दधीः पुनः । मायागुणपरिज्ञानं न कस्यापि भवेदिह ॥ ४७ ॥ गुणत्रयकृतं सर्वं जगत्स्थावरजङ्गमम् । विना गुणैर्न संसारो वर्तते किञ्चिदप्यदः ॥ ४८ ॥ अहं सत्त्वप्रधानोऽस्मि रजस्तमसमन्वितः । न कदाचित्त्रिभिर्हीनो भवामि भुवनेश्वरः ॥ ४९ ॥

English Translation

This world, moving and non-moving, is fashioned out of the triple Guṇas of the Māyā; nothing whatsoever can exist without them. The predominant Guṇa in Me is Sāttva; but Rājas and Tāmas exist in me; being the Lord of this world, I cannot override the three Guṇas.

Ch 30 Verse 50 Verse

Sanskrit Text

तथा ब्रह्मा पिता तेऽत्र रजोमुख्यः प्रकीर्तितः । तमःसत्त्वसमायुक्तो न ताभ्यामुज्झितः किल ॥ ५० ॥

English Translation

So your father, Brahmā, is predominant in Rājo Guṇa; but Sāttva and Tāmas never leave Him,

Ch 30 Verse 51 Verse

Sanskrit Text

शिवस्तथा तमोमुख्यो रजःसत्त्वसमावृतः । गुणत्रयविहीनस्तु नैव कोऽपि मया श्रुतः ॥ ५१ ॥

English Translation

Our Mahā Deva is predominant in Tāmo Guṇa, but Sāttva and Rājo are always with him. Therefore, no being can exist as separate from the three Guṇas; this point I have settled in Śruti.

Ch 30 Verse 52 Verse

Sanskrit Text

तस्मान्मोहो न कर्तव्यः संसारेऽस्मिन्मुनीश्वर । मायाविनिर्मितेऽसारेऽपारे परमदुर्घटे ॥ ५२ ॥

English Translation

Therefore, O Lord of the Munis! Quit this endless Moha for the world, caused by Māyā, and very hard to get over and worship Bhagavatī, Who is of the nature of Brāhmaṇ.

Ch 30 Verse 53 Verse

Sanskrit Text

दृष्टा माया त्वयाद्यैव भुक्ता भोगा ह्यनेकशः । किं पृच्छसि महाभाग तस्याश्चरितमद्भुतम् ॥ ५३ ॥

Sanskrit Colophon

इति श्रीमद्देवीभागवते महापुराणेऽष्टादशसाहस्र्यां संहितायां षष्ठस्कन्धे मायाप्राबल्यवर्णनं नाम त्रिंशोऽध्यायः ॥ ६.३०॥

English Translation

O Intelligent One! Now you have seen the power of Māyā; and you have enjoyed many things produced by Māyā and you have realised the extremely wonderful nature of Her. Then why do you ask me further on this point?” Here ends the Thirtieth Chapter of the Sixth Book on the glory of Mahā Māyā in the Mahāpurāṇam Śrī Mad Devi Bhāgavatam of 18,000 verses by Maharṣi Veda Vyāsa.