SB 4.19.34 · Srimad-Bhagavatam

Devanagari

मास्मिन्महाराज कृथा: स्म चिन्तांनिशामयास्मद्वच आद‍ृतात्मा यद्ध्यायतो दैवहतं नु कर्तुंमनोऽतिरुष्टं विशते तमोऽन्धम् ॥ ३४ ॥

Verse text

māsmin mahārāja kṛthāḥ sma cintāṁ niśāmayāsmad-vaca ādṛtātmā yad dhyāyato daiva-hataṁ nu kartuṁ mano ’tiruṣṭaṁ viśate tamo ’ndham

Synonyms

mā — do not ; asmin — in this ; mahā — rāja — O King ; kṛthāḥ — do ; sma — as done in the past ; cintām — agitation of the mind ; niśāmaya — please consider ; asmat — my ; vacaḥ — words ; ādṛta — ātmā — being very respectful ; yat — because ; dhyāyataḥ — of him who is contemplating ; daiva — hatam — that which is thwarted by providence ; nu — certainly ; kartum — to do ; manaḥ — the mind ; ati — ruṣṭam — very angry ; viśate — enters ; tamaḥ — darkness ; andham — dense .

Translation

My dear King, do not be agitated and anxious because your sacrifices have not been properly executed due to providential impediments. Kindly take my words with great respect. We should always remember that if something happens by providential arrangement, we should not be very sorry. The more we try to rectify such reversals, the more we enter into the darkest region of materialistic thought.

Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)

O King! Being respectful, hearing my words, do not worry about the incomplete sacrifice, because the angry mind of one who mediates on doing what is destroyed by fate enters into deepest illusion. He speaks to Pṛthu who is meditating on the incomplete sacrifice. Certainly the mind of the person who mediates on doing what is destroyed by fate enters into the deepest illusion. He does not attain peace.

Purport

Sometimes the saintly or very religious person also has to meet with reversals in life. Such incidents should be taken as providential. Although there may be sufficient cause for being unhappy, one should avoid counteracting such reversals, for the more we become implicated in rectifying such reversals, the more we enter into the darkest regions of material anxiety. Lord Kṛṣṇa has also advised us in this connection: we should tolerate things instead of becoming agitated.