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The Sacrifice Performed by Dakṣa
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gratitude to him. Sometimes a father punishes his child, and when the child is grown up and comes to his senses, he understands that the father's punishment was not actually punishment but mercy. Similarly, Dakṣa appreciated that the punishment offered to him by Lord Śiva was a manifestation of his mercy. That is the symptom of a person who is making progress on the path of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. It is said that a devotee in Kṛṣṇa consciousness never takes any miserable condition of life to be condemnation by the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He accepts the miserable condition to be the grace of the Lord. He thinks, "I would have been punished or put into a more dangerous condition of life due to my past misdeeds, but the Lord has protected me. Thus I have received only a little punishment as token execution of the law of  karma ." Thinking of His grace in that way, a devotee always surrenders to the Supreme Personality of Godhead more and more seriously and is not disturbed by such so-called punishment.
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मैत्रेय उवाच
क्षमाप्यैवं स मीढ्वांसं ब्रह्मणा चानुमन्त्रितः । कर्म सन्तानयामास सोपाध्यायत्विगादिभिः ॥१६॥
maitreya uvāca
kṣamāpyaivaṁ sa mīḍhvāṁsaṁ
brahmaṇā cānumantritaḥ
karma santānayāmāsa
sopādhyāyartvig-ādibhiḥ
maitreyaḥ —the sage Maitreya;  uvāca —said;  kṣamā —forgiveness;  āpya —receiving;  evam —thus;  saḥ —King Dakṣa;  mīḍhvāṁsaṁ —unto Lord Śiva;  brahmaṇā —along with Lord Brahmā;  ca —also;  anumantritaḥ —being permitted;  karma —the sacrifice;  santānayāmāsa —began again;  sa —along with;  upādhyāya —learned sages;  ṛtvik —the priests;  ādibhiḥ —and others.
TRANSLATION
The great sage Maitreya said: Thus being pardoned by Lord Śiva, King Dakṣa, with the permission of Lord Brahmā, again began the performance of the yajña, along with the great learned sages, the priests and others.