Shloka 178

उमामहेश्वरव्रतं—पञ्चाक्षरमन्त्रस्य माहात्म्यं, न्यासः, जपविधिः, सदाचारः, विनियोगः

Devanagari script

मिथ्या न कारयेद्देवि क्रियया च गुरोः सदा दुर्गुणे ख्यापिते तस्य नैर्गुण्यशतभाग्भवेत्

Transliteration

mithyā na kārayeddevi kriyayā ca guroḥ sadā durguṇe khyāpite tasya nairguṇyaśatabhāgbhavet

Translation

O Devi, one should never, by any contrived act, fabricate falsehood regarding the Guru. If one publicizes the Guru’s supposed faults, one incurs a hundredfold share of that very demerit—thus intensifying impurity and bondage (pāśa).

Word by Word

• मिथ्या: falsely, untruthfully

• न: not

• कारयेत्: should cause/do (make happen)

• देवि: O Goddess

• क्रियया: by an act/deed, by a performed action

• च: and

• गुरोः: of the Guru

• सदा: always

• दुर्गुणे: in (regard to) a fault/vice

• ख्यापिते: when proclaimed, made known, advertised

• तस्य: of that (person)

• नैर्गुण्य: demerit, lack of virtue, moral defect

• शतभाग्: a hundredfold share

• भवेत्: becomes, results

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the Purana; verse framed as a Devi-address within the teaching)