Shloka 4
Adhyaya 92 — Devi’s Assurance of Protection and the Fruits of Reciting the Devi Mahatmyam
न तेषां दुष्कृतं किञ्चिद् दुष्कृतोत्था न चापदः ।
भविष्यति न दारिद्र्यं न चैवेष्टवियोजनम् ॥
na teṣāṃ duṣkṛtaṃ kiñcid duṣkṛtotthā na cāpadaḥ |
bhaviṣyati na dāridryaṃ na caiveṣṭaviyojanam ||
اُن کے لیے کوئی ایسا بدعمل باقی نہیں رہتا جو پھل دے، نہ بدعملی سے پیدا ہونے والی کوئی مصیبت؛ نہ تنگ دستی، نہ محبوب چیزوں سے جدائی۔
FAQs
Devotion is framed as a force that restrains harmful action and mitigates karmic fallout—encouraging ethical living aligned with worship, not worship as a substitute for ethics.
Dharma and its fruits (phala): a prescriptive assurance about karmic and worldly well-being tied to worshipful conduct.
‘No duṣkṛta’ can imply purification of saṃskāras: sustained śakti-bhakti reduces impulses that generate demerit, thereby preventing ‘duṣkṛtotthā’ disturbances—outer crises mirror inner ethical disorder.