Varaha Purana

ततो विप्रवचः श्रुत्वा तूष्णीमासीन्मुनिस्तदा 125.

Hearing the Brahmin's words, the sage then sat in silence.

एतस्मिन्नंतरे देवि स च ब्राह्मणपुंगवः

Meanwhile, O goddess, that eminent Brahmin also—

कथमेतावतङ्कालं मामूचुर्ब्राह्मणाश्च किम् कथं कालेऽनुसम्प्राप्तः किमेतदिति भाषते

How has so much time passed? What did the Brahmins say to me? How did this moment arrive? What is this, he speaks thus.

एतस्मिन्नंतरे देवि ब्राह्मणाय ततो मया

Meanwhile, O goddess, to that Brahmin, then by me—

किमिदं भ्रांतरूपोऽसि किं वा त्वं दृष्टवानसि

What is this, you appear bewildered? Or what have you seen?

एवमुक्तः स तु मया भूमौ कृत्वा शिरः स्वकम्

Thus addressed by me, he placed his own head upon the ground.

अहो देव द्विजा एते मां वदन्ति जगद्गुरो आगतोऽस्यपराह्ने किं स्थलं विस्मृतवानसि

Ah, O god, O twice-born, these Brahmins speak to me, O teacher of the world: you have arrived in the afternoon, what place have you forgotten?

अहं व्याधस्य वै भूत्वा भार्या च व्याधयोनिजा

I became a hunter, and my wife was born in the hunter's lineage.

तस्माच्चैव त्रयः पुत्रास्तिस्रश्चापि च कन्यकाः

From her, three sons were born, and also three daughters.

स्नातुं कदाचिद्गङ्गायां गतोऽहं तीरभूमिगः उन्मज्य स्वयं पुनश्चैव प्राप्तो रूपं मुनिस्तुतम्

Once, I went to bathe in the Ganges, as one dwelling by the riverbank; emerging, I myself again attained the form praised by sages.

किं मया विकृतं कर्म सेवमानेन माधव 125.

What wrongful act have I committed while serving Madhava?

भक्षितं किमकर्मण्यं सेवमानेन चाच्युत

What improper thing have I consumed while serving Achyuta?

एतदाचक्ष तत्त्वेन येनाहं नरकं गतः

Tell me this truthfully, by which I have gone to hell.

मायालुब्धेन हि मया पूर्वं विज्ञापितो ह्यसि

Indeed, I have previously informed you, being deceived by illusion.

ततस्तस्य वचः श्रुत्वा कारुण्यपरिदेवितम्

Then, hearing his words, full of lamentation and compassion—

मा दुःखं कुरु विप्रेन्द्र आत्मदोषसमुद्भवम् येन दुःखमनुप्राप्तं तिर्यग्योनिं च वै गतः

Do not grieve, O foremost of Brahmins, for suffering arising from your own fault, by which you have attained sorrow and entered the animal womb.

उक्तमेव मया पूर्वं शृणु ब्राह्मणपुङ्गव

I have already spoken before; listen, O eminent Brahmin.

ददामि दिव्यभोगान्वै भौमान्वापि तवेप्सितम्

I grant you divine enjoyments, or earthly ones as you desire.

दृष्टा तु वैष्णवी माया या त्वया ब्राह्मणेप्सिता वर्षाणि चैव पंचाशान्निषादस्य गृहेऽपि न

The Vaiṣṇava illusion has been seen, which you, O Brahmin, desired; and for fifty years, not even in the house of the hunter.

अन्यच्च ते प्रवक्ष्यामि तच्छृणुष्व द्विजोत्तम

Moreover, I will tell you something else—listen to this, O best of twice-born.

त्वया न तत्कृतं किंचिच्छुभं वाशुभमेव वा 125.

You have not performed any act, whether auspicious or inauspicious.

यत्त्वया दुष्कृतं कर्म व्यभिचारश्च तत्र वै

Whatever wrongful deeds or transgressions you have committed—

भवान्तरे कृतं यच्च येनेदं प्राप्तवान्महत्

And whatever was done by you in a previous existence, by which you have now attained this great state—

मम भक्ता द्विजाः शुद्धा यत्त्वया नाभिवादिताः

The pure twice-born who are my devotees, whom you did not greet—

ये च भागवताः शुद्धास्ते नूनं मम मूर्त्तयः विदितोऽस्मीह विप्रेन्द्र तैरहं नात्र संशयः

And those pure devotees of Bhagavan are truly my embodiments; I am known here, O best of Brahmins, by them—of this there is no doubt.

मम दर्शनकामा ये ते मे भक्ता द्विजास्तथा

Those twice-born who desire to see me, they too are my devotees.

विशेषेण कलौ ब्रह्मन्द्विजरूपो ह्यवस्थितः

Especially in the Kali age, I am present in the form of a Brahmin.

यो मां प्राप्तमिहेच्छेत यस्यावाच्यं न विद्यते

Whoever wishes to attain me here, for him there is nothing unutterable.

गच्छ ब्राह्मण सिद्धोऽसि यदा प्राणान्विमोक्ष्यसि

Go, O Brahmin—you are perfected; when you relinquish your life-breath, you shall attain.