Shloka 15
Devahūti’s Prayers, Kapila’s Departure, and Devahūti’s Liberation
Siddhapada
प्रजापते: कर्दमस्य तपोयोगविजृम्भितम् । स्वगार्हस्थ्यमनौपम्यं प्रार्थ्यं वैमानिकैरपि ॥ १५ ॥
prajāpateḥ kardamasya tapo-yoga-vijṛmbhitam sva-gārhasthyam anaupamyaṁ prārthyaṁ vaimānikair api
Gia thất và vật dụng trong nhà của Kardama—một vị Prajāpati—được phát triển nhờ uy lực khổ hạnh và yoga huyền nhiệm đến mức vô song. Sự phú quý ấy ngay cả những kẻ du hành không gian bằng vimāna cũng ao ước, và đôi khi họ còn ganh tị.
The statement in this verse that Kardama Muni’s household affairs were envied even by persons who travel in outer space refers to the denizens of heaven. Their airships are not like those we have invented in the modern age, which fly only from one country to another; their airplanes were capable of going from one planet to another. There are many such statements in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam from which we can understand that there were facilities to travel from one planet to another, especially in the higher planetary system, and who can say that they are not still traveling? The speed of our airplanes and space vehicles is very limited, but, as we have already studied, Kardama Muni traveled in outer space in an airplane which was like a city, and he journeyed to see all the different heavenly planets. That was not an ordinary airplane, nor was it ordinary space travel. Because Kardama Muni was such a powerful mystic yogī, his opulence was envied by the denizens of heaven.
FAQs
This verse praises Kardama Muni’s household life as incomparable because it was empowered by tapasya and yoga—so pure and elevated that even heavenly beings would desire such a life.
Because his family life was not ordinary enjoyment; it was spiritually “expanded” by austerity and yogic discipline, making it a rare example of household life aligned with divine purpose.
Make home life a sādhana-space: keep discipline, simplicity, and spiritual practice (japa, study, service), so duties become uplifting rather than binding.