Bhagavatapurana 5.8.26

5.8.26

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evam aghaṭamāna-manorathākula-hṛdayo mṛga-dārakābhāsena svārabdha-karmaṇā yogārambhaṇato vibhraṃśitaḥ sa yoga-tāpaso bhagavad-ārādhana-lakṣaṇāc ca katham itarathā jāty-antara eṇa-kuṇaka āsaṅgaḥ sākṣān niḥśreyasa-pratipakṣatayā prāk-parityakta-dustyaja-hṛdayābhijātasya tasyaivam antarāya-vihata-yogārambhaṇasya rājarṣer bharatasya tāvan mṛgārbhaka-poṣaṇa-pālana-prīṇana-lālanānuṣaṅgeṇāvigaṇayata ātmānam ahir ivākhu-bilaṃ duratikramaḥ kālaḥ karāla-rabhasa āpadyata //

26. Thus his heart bewildered with unpracticable wishes under the force of his Prarabdha Karma fructifying in the form of a young deer, he fell back from his yogic practices and also from the habit of worshipping the Almighty Lord; how could he otherwise feel such

an overwhelming attachment to the young deer, a creature of a different species? The inevitable time of fearful speed, like unto a serpent coming up to a rat's hole, overtook him, the saintly king Bharata, who had once considered his own sons a great hindrance to salvation and separated himself from them, though it is hard to do so, whose yogic course was interrupted by obstacles and who had forgotten himself in his busy attention to the bringing up, protecting, gratifying and caressing of the young one of a deer.