ayaṁ hy ātmābhicāras te
upāyaṁ kathayiṣyāmi
tava vipra śṛṇuṣva tat
ayaṁ hy ātmābhicāras te
yatas taṁ yāhi mā ciram
sādhuṣu prahitaṁ tejaḥ
prahartuḥ kurute 'śivam
O brāhmaṇa! I will tell you the method for your protection. Please listen. Go immediately to Ambarīṣa because of whom you uttered a curse. One's so-called prowess, when employed against the devotee, certainly harms the person who employs it.
I will clearly tell you the method of deliverance. Please listen. Go to Ambarīṣa whom you cursed in order to kill. He is merciful and will save you. No one else can. You should not think that Ambarīṣa will harm you since he is a devotee (sādhuṣu).
|| 9.4.70 ||
tapo vidyā ca viprāṇāṁ
niḥśreyasa-kare ubhe
te eva durvinītasya
kalpete kartur anyathā
For a brāhmaṇa, austerity and learning are certainly auspicious, but when acquired by a person of bad conduct, such austerity and learning give opposite results.
“How is it possible that a kṣatriya like Ambarīṣa is capable of delivering me, endowed with austerity and knowledge?” Austerity and knowledge cannot exist in you, since you are not qualified. Rather they become the opposite. Knowledge and austerity in a person of bad conduct produce opposite results.
|| 9.4.71 ||
brahmaṁs tad gaccha bhadraṁ te
nābhāga-tanayaṁ nṛpam
kṣamāpaya mahā-bhāgaṁ
tataḥ śāntir bhaviṣyati
O brāhmaṇa! You should therefore go immediately to King Ambarīṣa, the son of Mahārāja Nābhāga. I wish you all good fortune. Satisfy the great devotee and you will have peace.
Thus ends the commentary on the Fourth Chapter of the Ninth Canto of the Bhāgavatam for the pleasure of the devotees, in accordance with the previous ācāryas.
Chapter Five
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