Baal Kaanda
18 - Sati's visit to Daksa's sacrifice
Chaupais
Description
Lord Siva replied, Your suggestion is good and has commended itself to Me as well. But the anomaly is that Your father has sent no invitation to us. Dak¦a has invited all his other daughters; but because of the grudge he bears to us you too have been ignored. In the court of Brahm he once took offence at our behaviour; that is why he insults us even now. If you go there uninvited, Bhavns, all decorum, affection and honour will be cast to the winds. It is no doubt true one should call on ones friend, master, father or teacher without waiting for a formal invitation; yet where someone nurses a grudge against you, you reap no good by going there. Sambhu expostulated with Sats in so many ways; but as fate had willed it wisdom would not dawn on Her. The Lord repeated once more that if She went to Her fathers place uninvited. He anticipated no good results from it. (1-4)