Uttar Kaanda
210 - Kakabhusundi narrates the story of his previous lives and tells Garuda the glory of the Kali age
Chaupais
Description
Listen, O enemy of serpents : I went to Ujjain-miserable, downcast, penniless and afflicted. When sometime had elapsed, I acquired some wealth and after that I began worshipping Lord Sambhu at that very place. There was a Brahmana there who constantly worshipped Lord Siva according to the Vedic rites and had no other occupation. He was an extremely pious soul and a knower of the highest truth, a votary of Lord Sambhu but no reviler of Sri Hari. I served him though with a guileful heart. The Brahmana was very kind-hearted and an abode of piety. Seeing me outwardly so humble, my Lord, the Brahmana taught me as his own son. The great Brahmana imparted to me a mystic formula sacred to Lord Sambhu and gave me every kind of good advice. I used to go to a temple of Lord Siva and repeat the formula there with unbounded ostentation and conceit in my heart.