Canto 9: LiberationChapter 6: The Downfall of Saubhari Muni

Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.6.41-42

sa vicintyāpriyaḿ strīṇāḿ

jaraṭho 'ham asan-mataḥ

valī-palita ejat-ka

ity ahaḿ pratyudāhṛtaḥ

sādhayiṣye tathātmānaḿ

sura-strīṇām abhīpsitam

kiḿ punar manujendrāṇām

iti vyavasitaḥ prabhuḥ

SYNONYMS

saḥhe, Saubhari Muni; vicintya — thinking to himself; apriyam — not liked; strīṇām — by the women; jaraṭhaḥ — being infirm because of old age; ahamI; asat-mataḥ — not desired by them; valī — wrinkled; palitaḥ — grey-haired; ejat-kaḥ — with the head always trembling; itiin this way; ahamI; pratyudāhṛtaḥ — rejected (by them); sādhayiṣyeI shall act in such a way; tathāas; ātmānam — my body; sura-strīṇāmto the celestial women of the heavenly planets; abhīpsitam — desirable; kim — what to speak of; punaḥ — yet; manuja-indrāṇām — of the daughters of worldly kings; itiin this way; vyavasitaḥ — determined; prabhuḥSaubhari, the greatly powerful mystic.

TRANSLATION

Saubhari Muni thought: I am now feeble because of old age. My hair has become grey, my skin is slack, and my head always trembles. Besides, I am a yogī. Therefore women do not like me. Since the King has thus rejected me, I shall reform my body in such a way as to be desirable even to celestial women, what to speak of the daughters of worldly kings.

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