Text 25]
Dakṣa Curses Lord Śiva
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TEXT 24
विद्याबुद्धिरविद्यायां कर्ममय्यामसौ जडः । संसरन्त्वह ये चामुमनु शर्वावमानिनम् ॥२४॥
vidyā-buddhir avidyāyām karma-mayyām asau jaḍaḥ saṁsarantv iha ye cāmum anu śarvāvamāninam
vidyā-buddhiḥ—materialistic education and intelligence; avidyāyām—in nescience; karma-mayyām—formed of fruitive activities; asau—he (Dakṣa); jaḍaḥ—dull; saṁsarantu—let them take birth again and again; iha—here in this world; ye—who; ca—and; amum—Dakṣa; anu—following; śarva—Śiva; avamāninam—insulting.
TRANSLATION
Those who have become as dull as matter by cultivating materialistic education and intelligence are nesciently involved in fruitive activities. Such men have purposely insulted Lord Śiva. May they continue in the cycle of repeated birth and death.
PURPORT
The three curses mentioned above are sufficient to make one as dull as stone, void of spiritual knowledge and preoccupied with materialistic education, which is nescience. After uttering these curses, Nandīśvara then cursed the  brāhmaṇas  to continue in the cycle of birth and death because of their supporting Dakṣa in blaspheming Lord Śiva.
TEXT 25
गिरः श्वतायाः पुष्पिण्या मधुगन्धेन भूरिणा । मध्ना चोन्मथितात्मानः सम्प्रुहन्तु हरद्विषः ॥२५॥
giraḥ śrutāyāḥ puṣpiṇyā madhu-gandhena bhūriṇā mathnā conmathitātmānaḥ sammuhyantu hara-dviṣaḥ
giraḥ—words; śrutāyāḥ—of the Vedas; puṣpiṇyāḥ—flowery; madhu-gandhena—with the scent of honey; bhūriṇā—profuse; mathnā—enchant-