Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.3.25

yadi vrajiṣyasy atihāya mad-vaco

bhadraḿ bhavatyā na tato bhaviṣyati

sambhāvitasya sva-janāt parābhavo

yadā sa sadyo maraṇāya kalpate

SYNONYMS

yadi — if; vrajiṣyasi — you will go; atihāya — neglecting; mat-vacaḥ — my words; bhadram — good; bhavatyāḥ — your; na — not; tataḥ — then; bhaviṣyati — will become; sambhāvitasya — most respectable; svajanāt — by your own relative; parābhavaḥ — are insulted; yadā — when; saḥ — that insult; sadyaḥ — immediately; maraṇāya — to death; kalpate — is equal.

TRANSLATION

If in spite of this instruction you decide to go, neglecting my words, the future will not be good for you. You are most respectable, and when you are insulted by your relative, this insult will immediately be equal to death.

Thus end the Bhaktivedanta purports of the Fourth Canto, Third Chapter, of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, entitled "Talks Between Lord Śiva and Satī."

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