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Bhagavatapurana 3.31.9

Bhāgavatapurāṇa 3.31.9

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Sanskrit

3.31.9

akalpaḥ svāṅga-ceṣṭāyāṃ śakunta iva pañjare /
tatra labdha-smṛtir daivāt karma janma-śatodbhavam /
smaran dīrgham anucchvāsaṃ śarma kiṃ nāma vindate //

9. Like a bird in the cage it is helpless, it cannot move its own limbs (cannot make use of its limbs in moving about), and there (in that condition) it acquires the power of memory through the will of Providence, recollects its own Karma done in hundreds of previous lives and breathlessly suffers endless pain; (and in that plight) what happiness, what pleasurable feeling, could it have?

S. Subba Rau 1928, The Srimad Bhagavatam

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