Devishataka 51_40

51_40

(Apparent Contradiction [virodhābhāsa]) / O Devī, whatever men have their minds steeped in devotion to you, whose intellects are perfumed by your service, here in this world, in the triad of worlds—in the three realms—of them alone do I consider the attainment of birth, their state of having taken birth, to be debtless, with the three debts destroyed. The meaning is: that freedom from debt in this world towards the seers, ancestors, and gods which is accomplished through celibacy, offspring, and sacrifice, is attained through devotion to the Devī. The apparent contradiction lies in 'atraye traye' and 'anṛṇāṃ nṛṇām'. (51)