उपायं कथयिष्यामि तव विप्र शृणुष्व तत् । अयं ह्यात्माभिचारस्ते यतस्तं याहि मा चिरम् । साधुषु प्रहितं तेज: प्रहर्तु: कुरुतेऽशिवम् ॥ ६९ ॥
upayam kathayisyami tava vipra srnusva tat ayam hy atmabhicaras te yatas tam yahi ma ciram sadhusu prahitam tejah prahartuh kurute ’sivam
- upayam
- the means of protection in this dangerous position
- kathayisyami
- I shall speak to you
- tava
- of your deliverance from this danger
- vipra
- O brahmana
- srnusva
- just hear from me
- tat
- what I say
- ayam
- this action taken by you
- hi
- indeed
- atma-abhicarah
- self-envy or envious of yourself (your mind has become your enemy)
- te
- for you
- yatah
- because of whom
- tam
- to him (Maharaja Ambarisa)
- yahi
- immediately go
- ma ciram
- do not wait even a moment
- sadhusu
- unto devotees
- prahitam
- applied
- tejah
- power
- prahartuh
- of the executor
- kurute
- does
- asivam
- inauspiciousness
O brahmana, let Me now advise you for your own protection. Please hear from Me. By offending Maharaja Ambarisa, you have acted with self-envy. Therefore you should go to him immediately, without a moment’s delay. One’s so-called prowess, when employed against the devotee, certainly harms he who employs it. Thus it is the subject, not the object, who is harmed.