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Devibhagavatapurana 1.5.42

Devībhāgavatapurāṇa 1.5.42

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Sanskrit

1.5.42

indra uvāca |
daivameva paraṃ manye dhikpauruṣamanarthakam |
viṣṇorapi śiraśchinnaṃ surāṇāṃ caiva paśyatām ||

Indra said:-- Fie to your exertion when, before our eyes, the head of Bhagavân Visnu Himself has been carried off! Fie, Fie to your prowess and intelligence! Fate is in my opinion, the supreme.
Brahmâ said:-- Whatever, auspicious or inauspicious, is ordained Daiva (Fate), every one must bear that; no one can go beyond the Daiva. When one has taken up a body, one must experience pleasure and pain; there is no manner of doubt in this. See, in long-past days, by the irony of Fate, S’ambhu severed my head; His generative organ, too, dropped down through curse. Similarly Hari's head has, to-day, fallen into the salt ocean. By the influence of time, Indra, the Lord of Sachi, had thousand genital marks over his body, was expelled from Heaven and had to live in the Mânas sarovar in the lotuses and had to suffer many other miseries.

Swami Vijnanananda 1921, The Sri Mad Devi Bhagavatam

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