Text 11]
Talks Between Lord Śiva and Satī
89
TRANSLATION
My sisters, the sisters of my mother and their husbands and other affectionate relatives must be assembled there, so if I go I shall be able to see them, and I shall be able to see the flapping flags and the performance of the sacrifice by the great sages. For these reasons, my dear husband, I am very much anxious to go.
PURPORT
As stated before, the tension between the father-in-law and son-in-law persisted for a considerable time. So Satī had not gone to her father's house for a long while. Thus she was very anxious to go to her father's house, particularly because on that occasion her sisters and their husbands and her mother's sisters would be there. As is natural for a woman, she wanted to dress equally to her other sisters and also be accompanied by her husband. She did not, of course, want to go alone.
TEXT 11
त्वय्येतदाश्वर्यमजात्ममायया 
    विनिर्मितं भाति गुणत्रयात्मकम् । 
    तथाप्यहं योषिदतत्त्वविच्च ते 
    दीना दिद्धक्षे भव मे भवक्षितिम् ॥११॥
tvayy etad āścaryam ajātma-māyayā 
    vinirmitam bhāti guṇa-trayātmakam 
    tathāpy aham yoṣid atattva-vic ca te 
    dīnā didṛkṣe bhava me bhava-kṣitim
tvayi—in you; etat—this; āścaryam—wonderful; aja—O Lord Śiva; ātma-māyayā—by the external energy of the Supreme Lord; vinirmitam—created; bhāti—appears; guṇa-traya-ātmakam—being an interaction of the three modes of material nature; tathāpi—even so; aham—I; yoṣit—woman; atattva-vit—not conversant with the truth; ca—and; te—your; dīnā—poor; didṛkṣe—I wish to see; bhava—O Lord Śiva; me—my; bhava-kṣitim—place of birth.
TRANSLATION
Although this cosmic manifestation is a wonderful creation of the interaction of the three material modes, or the external energy of the Supreme Lord, the truth is fully known to you. Yet I am a poor woman, and, as