Varaha Purana

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.

एवमुक्त्वा वरारोहे तत्रैवान्तर्हितोऽभवम् कृत्वा सुदुष्करं कर्म श्वेतद्वीपमुपागतः

Having spoken thus, O fair one, I vanished right there, and after performing a most difficult deed, I reached Śvetadvīpa.

धन्वी तूणी शरी खड्गी मायाबलपराक्रमः 125.

Armed with bow, quiver, arrows, and sword, endowed with the power and prowess of illusion.

मायया किं तव धरे न मायां ज्ञातुमर्हसि

By illusion—what is there for you, O Earth? You are not fit to know my illusion.

एतत्ते कथितं भूमे मायाख्यानं महौजसम्

Thus, O Earth, this account of my illusion, endowed with great power, has been told to you.

आख्यानानां महाख्यानं तपसां च परन्तपः

Among stories, it is the greatest story; among austerities, it is supreme, O scorcher of foes.

नित्यं पठेद्यो भक्तेषु अभक्तेषु न कीर्तयेत्

Whoever recites this always among devotees, but does not proclaim it among non-devotees—

अग्रतः पृच्छता शूद्रमद्भक्तेषु तथाग्रतः

And who, when asked, recites it before my devotees, even if they are Śūdras—

कल्यमुत्थाय यो भूमे पठते च दृढव्रतः

Whoever, rising at dawn, O Earth, recites it with firm resolve—

अथ पूर्णेन कालेन पुमान्पंचत्वमागतः

Then, after the full course of time, the man reached his end.

य एवं शृणुयान्नित्यं महाख्यानं वसुन्धरे

Whoever listens daily to this great narrative, O Earth,