Shloka 54
Kardama Muni’s Mystic Opulence, Devahūti’s Rejuvenation, and the Turning Toward Fearlessness
इन्द्रियार्थेषु सज्जन्त्या प्रसङ्गस्त्वयि मे कृत: । अजानन्त्या परं भावं तथाप्यस्त्वभयाय मे ॥ ५४ ॥
indriyārtheṣu sajjantyā prasaṅgas tvayi me kṛtaḥ ajānantyā paraṁ bhāvaṁ tathāpy astv abhayāya me
ਇੰਦ੍ਰਿਆਂ ਦੇ ਵਿਸ਼ਿਆਂ ਨਾਲ ਜੁੜੀ ਰਹਿੰਦਿਆਂ, ਤੇਰੇ ਪਰਮ ਸਰੂਪ ਨੂੰ ਨਾ ਜਾਣਦਿਆਂ ਵੀ ਮੈਂ ਤੇਰੇ ਨਾਲ ਮੋਹ ਜੋੜ ਲਿਆ। ਫਿਰ ਵੀ ਤੇਰੇ ਲਈ ਬਣੀ ਇਹ ਲਗਨ ਮੇਰਾ ਸਾਰਾ ਡਰ ਦੂਰ ਕਰੇ।
Devahūti is lamenting her position. As a woman, she had to love someone. Somehow or other, she came to love Kardama Muni, but without knowing of his spiritual advancement. Kardama Muni could understand Devahūti’s heart. Generally all women desire material enjoyment; they are called less intelligent because they are mostly prone to material enjoyment. Devahūti laments because her husband had given her the best kind of material enjoyment, but she did not know that he was so advanced in spiritual realization. Her plea was that even though she did not know the glories of her great husband, because she had taken shelter of him she must be delivered from material entanglement. Association with a great personality is most important. In Caitanya-caritāmṛta Lord Caitanya says that sādhu-saṅga, the association of a great saintly person, is very important, because even if one is not advanced in knowledge, simply by association with a great saintly person one can immediately make considerable advancement in spiritual life. As a woman, as an ordinary wife, Devahūti became attached to Kardama Muni in order to satisfy her sense enjoyment and other material necessities, but actually she associated with a great personality. Now she understood this, and she wanted to utilize the advantage of the association of her great husband.
FAQs
This verse teaches that even a person attached to sense enjoyment can become fearless through transformative association (satsanga) with a spiritually elevated person, which redirects the heart toward the supreme reality.
Devahuti acknowledges her prior material attachment and expresses gratitude that her connection with Kardama—though she did not fully understand his exalted spiritual stature—may still grant her fearlessness through that sanctifying association.
Choose regular company and teachings that elevate consciousness—devotional communities, scripture study, and guidance from sincere practitioners—so that even habitual sense-driven tendencies gradually lose their hold and inner fear diminishes.