Baal Kaanda
20 - Descent of Goddess Parvati and Her penance
Chaupais
Description
Nevertheless I tell you one remedy: this may avail if Heaven helps you. Um will undoubtedly get such a husband as I have described to you. But whatever demerits I have shown in her bridegroom exist in Siva so far as I can guess. If her marriage takes place with Sarkara, everyone will call the demerits as good as virtues. Even though Sri Hari uses the serpent-god Se¦a as His couch and sleeps thereon, the wise do not blame Him for the same. Even so the sun and fire absorb moisture in all forms, but no one calls them names. Again, water of every description, pure as well as impure, flows into the Ganga; yet no one calls the heavenly stream impure. Even like the sun, fire and the Ganga, the mighty incur no blame. (1-4)