sva-bhartrā kaśyapena vai
Aditi’s Vow Fulfilled
|| 8.17.1 ||
śrī-śuka uvāca
ity uktā sāditī rājan
sva-bhartrā kaśyapena vai
anv atiṣṭhad vratam idaṁ
dvādaśāham atandritā
Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O King! After Aditi was thus advised by her husband, Kaśyapa, she performed the payo-vrata without laziness.
In the Seventeenth Chapter Aditi performs the vow, sees Viṣṇu and praises him. He comforts her by saying that he will appear as her son. Brahmā then praises the Lord in her womb.
|| 8.17.2-3 ||
cintayanty ekayā buddhyā
mahā-puruṣam īśvaram
pragṛhyendriya-duṣṭāśvān
manasā buddhi-sārathiḥ
manaś caikāgrayā buddhyā
bhagavaty akhilātmani
vāsudeve samādhāya
cacāra ha payo-vratam
Thinking of the Lord with concentrated intelligence, controlling the senses which are like horses with the reins of the mind, along with the intelligence and the driver, she performed the payo-vrata, offering the mind to the Vāsudeva, the soul of all beings, with fixed intelligence.
She controlled the senses, like horses, by her mind, which were the reins. It has already been said mano rasmir buddhi-sūtaḥ: the mind is the reins and intelligence is the driver. (SB 4.29.19) She offered the mind, controlled by concentrated intelligence, to Vāsudeva.
|| 8.17.4 ||
tasyāḥ prādurabhūt tāta
bhagavān ādi-puruṣaḥ
pīta-vāsāś catur-bāhuḥ
śaṅkha-cakra-gadā-dharaḥ
My dear King! The Supreme Lord, the original person, dressed in yellow garments and bearing a conch, disc, club and lotus in his four hands, then appeared before Aditi.
|| 8.17.5 ||
taṁ netra-gocaraṁ vīkṣya
sahasotthāya sādaram
nanāma bhuvi kāyena
daṇḍavat-prīti-vihvalā
Seeing the Supreme Lord, Aditi, overwhelmed by bliss, stood up and then fell to the ground like a rod to offer the Lord her respectful obeisances.
|| 8.17.6 ||
sotthāya baddhāñjalir īḍituṁ sthitā
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