dustyajo vā mahātmanām
duṣkaraḥ ko nu sādhūnāṁ
dustyajo vā mahātmanām
yaiḥ saṅgṛhīto bhagavān
sātvatām ṛṣabho hariḥ
What is impossible to do, and what is impossible to give up, for devotees who have achieved the Supreme Lord, the master of the pure devotees?
What mercy is impossible for them to give, and what offense is impossible for them to overlook? Just as others take wealth, they take the Lord. But the Lord, after being taken, steals their hearts.
|| 9.5.16 ||
yan-nāma-śruti-mātreṇa
pumān bhavati nirmalaḥ
tasya tīrtha-padaḥ kiṁ vā
dāsānām avaśiṣyate
What is impossible for the servants of the Lord, whose feet are like holy places? Merely by hearing their names a person becomes completely purified.
|| 9.5.17 ||
rājann anugṛhīto 'haṁ
tvayātikaruṇātmanā
mad-aghaṁ pṛṣṭhataḥ kṛtvā
prāṇā yan me 'bhirakṣitāḥ
O King! I have been favored by you, who are so merciful since you have overlooked my offenses and saved my life.
|| 9.5.18 ||
rājā tam akṛtāhāraḥ
pratyāgamana-kāṅkṣayā
caraṇāv upasaṅgṛhya
prasādya samabhojayat
Expecting the return of Durvāsā Muni, the King had not taken his food. Therefore, when the sage returned, the King fell at his feet, pleased him, and fed him sumptuously.
|| 9.5.19 ||
so 'śitvādṛtam ānītam
ātithyaṁ sārva-kāmikam
tṛptātmā nṛpatiṁ prāha
bhujyatām iti sādaram
Durvāsā Muni, after eating varieties of palatable food brought with respect, was so satisfied that with great affection he requested the King to eat also, saying, "Please take your meal."
Durvāsā ate the food (ātithyam) brought with respect.
|| 9.5.20 ||
prīto 'smy anugṛhīto 'smi
tava bhāgavatasya vai
darśana-sparśanālāpair
ātithyenātma-medhasā
I am very pleased, being favored by my intelligence, by your hospitality, and by seeing, touching and speaking with you, a great devotee of the Lord.
I have been favored by seeing you, and thus I am pleased. Asmi is in the present tense. This indicates the previously I was not favored by seeing you, and not pleased, since I became blind with anger and created a demon to burn you, though you were sinless. If there is seeing of the devotee arising from bhakti, caused by actions of the devotee, then those events will give mercy to the brāhmaṇas having austerity and knowledge. There is no other way. I am the example of that. If I did not have intelligence to accept the hospitality of Ambarīṣa, how could I become saved? The pain inflicted by the cakra was my great benefactor, delivering me from saṁsāra, and showing the path of bhakti.
|| 9.5.21 ||
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