pratyākhyāto viriñcena
pratyākhyāto viriñcena
viṣṇu-cakropatāpitaḥ
durvāsāḥ śaraṇaṁ yātaḥ
śarvaṁ kailāsa-vāsinam
When Durvāsā, who was greatly afflicted by the blazing fire of the Sudarśana cakra, and was refused by Lord Brahmā, he took shelter of Lord Śiva, living in Kailāsa.
|| 9.4.56 ||
śrī-śaṅkara uvāca
vayaṁ na tāta prabhavāma bhūmni
yasmin pare 'nye 'py aja-jīva-kośāḥ
bhavanti kāle na bhavanti hīdṛśāḥ
sahasraśo yatra vayaṁ bhramāmaḥ
Lord Śiva said: My dear son! We cannot compete with the Supreme Lord within whom the thousands of universes in which we wander in bewilderment arise and are destroyed with time.
The universes (kośāḥ), which are coverings on the jīva and even Brahmā, are created and destroyed within the Supreme Lord. In those universes we who think we are controllers of the planets wander around bewildered.
|| 9.4.57-59 ||
ahaṁ sanat-kumāraś ca
nārado bhagavān ajaḥ
kapilo 'pāntaratamo
devalo dharma āsuriḥ
marīci-pramukhāś cānye
siddheśāḥ pāra-darśanāḥ
vidāma na vayaṁ sarve
yan-māyāṁ māyayāvṛtāḥ
tasya viśveśvarasyedaṁ
śastraṁ durviṣahaṁ hi naḥ
tam evaṁ śaraṇaṁ yāhi
haris te śaṁ vidhāsyati
I, Sanat-kumāra, Nārada, the most revered Lord Brahmā, Kapila, Vyāsadeva, Devala, Yamarāja, Āsuri, Marīci and many saintly persons headed by him, as well as many others who have achieved perfection, though knowing everything, do not know the māyā of the Lord since we are covered by māyā. This cakra is intolerable even to us. Go to the Supreme Lord. He will create auspiciousness.
“How can you who are omniscient be bewildered?” Though we know everything (pāradarśinaḥ) we do not know the Lord’s māyā.
|| 9.4.60 ||
tato nirāśo durvāsāḥ
padaṁ bhagavato yayau
vaikuṇṭhākhyaṁ yad adhyāste
|
