Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Srimad Bhagavatam 9.6.52

ekas tapasvy aham athambhasi matsya-sangat

pancasad asam uta panca-sahasra-sargah

nantam vrajamy ubhaya-kritya-manorathanam

maya-gunair hrita-matir vishaye 'rtha-bhavah

SYNONYMS

ekah -- one only; tapasvi -- great sage; aham -- I; atha -- thus; ambhasi -- in the deep water; matsya-sangat -- by associating with the fish; pancasat -- fifty; asam -- got wives; uta -- and what to speak of begetting one hundred sons in each of them; panca-sahasra-sargah -- procreation of five thousand; na antam -- no end; vrajami -- I can find; ubhaya-kritya -- duties of this life and the next; manorathanam -- mental concoctions; maya-gunaih -- influenced by the modes of material nature; hrita -- lost; matih vishaye -- great attraction for material things; artha-bhavah -- matters of self-interest.

TRANSLATION

In the beginning I was alone and engaged in performing the austerities of mystic yoga, but later, because of the association of fish engaged in sex, I desired to marry. Then I became the husband of fifty wives, and in each of them I begot one hundred sons, and thus my family increased to five thousand members. By the influence of the modes of material nature, I became fallen and thought that I would be happy in material life. Thus there is no end to my material desires for enjoyment, in this life and the next.

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