Text 11] Talks Between Lord Siva and Sati 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 Sati 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.
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fafafad atta qoeraraay |
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drat fea wa F wafafay 112 211
tvayy etad ascaryam ajatma-mayaya
vinirmitam bhati guna-trayatmakam
tathapy aham yosid atattva-vic ca te
dina didrkse bhava me bhava-ksitim
tvayi—in you; etat—this; ascaryam—wonderful; aja—O Lord Siva; atma-
mayaya—by the external energy of the Supreme Lord; vinirmitam—
created; bhati— appears; guna-traya-atmakam—being an interaction of the
three modes of material nature; tathapi—even so; aham—1; yosit—woman;
atattva-vit—not conversant with the truth; ca—and; te—your; dina—poor;
didrkse—| wish to see; bhava—O Lord Siva; me—my ; bhava-ksitim—place of
birth.
TRANSLATION
Although this cosmic manifestation is a wonderful creation of the inter-
action 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
