Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam — Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
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taṁ śaśāpa kulācāryaḥ
kṛtāgasam akāmataḥ
na kṣatra-bandhuḥ śūdras tvaṁ
karmaṇā bhavitāmunā

WORD BY WORD — PALABRA POR PALABRA



TRANSLATION — TRADUCCION

Although Pṛṣadhra had committed the sin unknowingly, his family priest, Vasiṣṭha, cursed him, saying, “In your next life you shall not be able to become a kṣatriya. Instead, you shall take birth as a śūdra because of killing the cow.”Aunque Pṛṣadhra había cometido el pecado inconscientemente, el sacerdote de su familia, Vasiṣṭha, le maldijo diciendo: «Por haber matado una vaca, en tu siguiente vida no podrás ser kṣatriya, sino que nacerás como śūdra».

PURPORT — SIGNIFICADO

It appears that Vasiṣṭha was not free from tamo-guṇa, the mode of ignorance. As the family priest or spiritual master of Pṛṣadhra, Vasiṣṭha should have taken Pṛṣadhra’s offense very lightly, but instead Vasiṣṭha cursed him to become a śūdra. It is the duty of a family priest not to curse a disciple but to give him relief through the performance of some sort of atonement. Vasiṣṭha, however, did just the opposite. Therefore Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura says that he was durmati; in other words, his intelligence was not very good.Parece ser que Vasiṣṭha no estaba libre de la modalidad de la ignorancia, tamo-guṇa. Como sacerdote familiar o maestro espiritual de Pṛṣadhra, Vasiṣṭha no debía haber dado importancia a la ofensa de Pṛṣadhra; sin embargo, le maldijo a nacer śūdra. El deber del sacerdote familiar no es maldecir a su discípulo, sino liberarle de la reacción mediante alguna práctica expiatoria. Vasiṣṭha, sin embargo, hizo todo lo contrario. Por esa razón, Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura dice que era durmati; en otras palabras, no tenía mucha inteligencia.
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