Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 9.18.36
शुक्रस्तमाह कुपित: स्त्रीकामानृतपूरुष ।
त्वां जरा विशतां मन्द विरूपकरणी नृणाम् ॥ ३६ ॥
śukras tam āha kupitaḥ
[shukras tam aaha kupitah]
strī-kāmānṛta-pūruṣa
[stree-kaamaanrita-poorusha]
tvāṁ jarā viśatāṁ manda
[tvaam jaraa vishataam manda]
virūpa-karaṇī nṛṇām
[viroopa-karanee nrinaam]
Word-for-word
śukraḥ
—
Śukrācārya
tam
—
unto him (King Yayāti)
āha
—
said
kupitaḥ
—
being very angry at him
strī-kāma
—
O you who have lusty desires for women
anṛta-pūruṣa
—
O untruthful person
tvām
—
unto you
jarā
—
old age, invalidity
viśatām
—
may enter
manda
—
you fool
virūpa-karaṇī
—
which disfigures
nṛṇām
—
the bodies of human beings.
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
śukras tam āha kupitaḥ
śukraḥ
Śukrācārya
tam
unto him (King Yayāti)
āha
said
kupitaḥ
being very angry at him
strī-kāmānṛta-pūruṣa
strī-kāma
O you who have lusty desires for women
anṛta-pūruṣa
O untruthful person
tvāṁ jarā viśatāṁ manda
tvām
unto you
jarā
old age, invalidity
viśatām
may enter
manda
you fool
virūpa-karaṇī nṛṇām
virūpa-karaṇī
which disfigures
nṛṇām
the bodies of human beings.
Śukrācārya was extremely angry. “You untruthful fool, lusting after women! You have done a great wrong,” he said. “I therefore curse you to be attacked and disfigured by old age and invalidity.”
Gauḍīya Ācāryas
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura
Gauḍīya
Translation
Śukrācārya in anger said, "O untruthful man! O desirer of women! O fool! May old age which disfigures humanity afflict you."
Personal Guidance
Śukrācārya curses Yayāti with immediate old age and disfigurement. Some lusts are cured only by a stripping away of the very body that pursued them — and that stripping itself becomes the teaching.
Reflection Questions
- Where in my own life has aging or illness arrived as a quiet 'curse on the lust' that drove me?
- Could I receive that bodily lesson with humility rather than fight to reverse it?
My note
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