ananya-bhāvaika-gatiṁ
āvṛṅkte patim ambikā
ananya-bhāvaika-gatiṁ
śaktiḥ supteva pūruṣam
Satī, who had attachment to no one else, again chose Śiva, as her one goal and as her beloved husband. She was like the sleeping energy at the time of universal dissolution, who then takes shelter of the Supreme Lord.
Āvṛṅkte means chose. She had love for no one else (ananya-bhāvā). Śiva was her only goal (eka-gatim). At the time of devastation, the sleeping śakti takes shelter of the Supreme Lord who is awake (and then she becomes revived).
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etad bhagavataḥ śambhoḥ
karma dakṣādhvara-druhaḥ
śrutaṁ bhāgavatāc chiṣyād
uddhavān me bṛhaspateḥ
O Vidura! I heard this story of Śiva, destroyer of Dakṣa’s sacrifice, from the devotee Uddhava, a disciple of Bṛhaspati.
He heard it from Uddhava, the disciple of Bṛhaspati.
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idaṁ pavitraṁ param īśa-ceṣṭitaṁ
yaśasyam āyuṣyam aghaugha-marṣaṇam
yo nityadākarṇya naro 'nukīrtayed
dhunoty aghaṁ kaurava bhakti-bhāvataḥ
O Vidura! The person who, after constantly hearing Viṣṇu’s and Śiva’s pure activities of, which give fame and long life and destroy piles of sin, narrates the story with devotion destroys all his sin.
Thus ends the commentary on the Seventh Chapter of the Fourth Canto of the Bhāgavatam for the pleasure of the devotees, in accordance with the previous ācāryas.
Chapter Eight
Dhruva Goes to the Forest
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maitreya uvāca
sanakādyā nāradaś ca
ṛbhur haṁso 'ruṇir yatiḥ
naite gṛhān brahma-sutā
hy āvasann ūrdhva-retasaḥ
Maitreya said: The four Kumāras headed by Sanaka, as well as Nārada, Ṛbhu, Haṁsa, Aruṇi and Yati, all sons of Brahmā, did not get married, but became ūrdhva-retā, or naiṣṭhika-brahmacārīs.
In the Eighth Chapter, Dhruva, burned by the poison of his stepmother’s words, and inspired by the nectar of his mother’s words, pleases the Lord by austerities in Madhuvana.
The lineages from Manu’s daughters were described, and the lineages from Brahmā’s sons such as Marīci were also mentioned in the process. Though Manu’s sons should now be described, first the remaining sons of Brahmā are described briefly.
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