Shloka 27
Kapila’s Advent: Brahmā’s Confirmation, the Marriage of the Nine Daughters, and Kardama’s Renunciation
अहो पापच्यमानानां निरये स्वैरमङ्गलै: । कालेन भूयसा नूनं प्रसीदन्तीह देवता: ॥ २७ ॥
aho pāpacyamānānāṁ niraye svair amaṅgalaiḥ kālena bhūyasā nūnaṁ prasīdantīha devatāḥ
Kardama Muni dit : « Ô ! Après bien longtemps, les demi-dieux de cet univers se sont assurément montrés favorables aux âmes souffrantes qui, par leurs propres méfaits, sont prises dans l’enchevêtrement matériel et brûlent en enfer. »
This material world is a place for suffering, which is due to the misdeeds of the inhabitants, the conditioned souls themselves. The sufferings are not extraneously imposed upon them; rather, the conditioned souls create their own suffering by their own acts. In the forest, fire takes place automatically. It is not that someone has to go there and set a fire; because of friction among various trees, fire occurs automatically. When there is too much heat from the forest fire of this material world, the demigods, including Brahmā himself, being harassed, approach the Supreme Lord, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and appeal to Him to alleviate the condition. Then the Supreme Personality of Godhead descends. In other words, when the demigods become distressed by the sufferings of the conditioned souls, they approach the Lord to remedy the suffering, and the Personality of Godhead descends. When the Lord descends, all the demigods become enlivened. Therefore Kardama Muni said, “After many, many years of human suffering, all the demigods are now satisfied because Kapiladeva, the incarnation of Godhead, has appeared.”
FAQs
This verse states that sinners are ‘cooked’ in hell by the results of their own inauspicious actions, showing that suffering is a consequence of karma and not random.
It indicates that cosmic order is maintained through kāla (time): when reactions are experienced over time, the administrators of the universe are considered satisfied that justice has been carried out.
Choose dharmic actions and avoid harmful habits; the verse warns that ‘self-chosen’ inauspicious deeds create long-term consequences that time will inevitably bring to fruition.