Baal Kaanda
25 - The god's prayer to Siva for marriage; the seven seers' visit to Parvati
Chaupais
Description
Hearing this, Bhavns smiled and said, O great and illumined sages, you have spoken aright. According to your belief it is only now that Sambhu has burnt the god of love and that till now He was smitten with love. To my mind, however, Siva is eternally in rapport with the Infinite, unbegotten, irreproachable, passionless and without enjoyment. Knowing Him as such, if I have served Him lovingly in thought, word and deed, then hear, O great sages: the gracious Lord will accomplish my vow. Your statement that Hara has burnt the god of love betrays woeful lack of thought in you. Fire, my friends, possesses this inherent property that frost can never approach it: in case it does it must inevitably perish. Similar is the case with the god of love and the great Lord Siva. (1-4)