Sri Vasista

1. O Rāma, when Sukra spoke thus in that regretable manner, Bhagawaan Kāla said thus in deep sombre tones.

Sri Kala

2. O gentle saint, cast away the body of the ‘tapasi’ on the ‘Samanga’ coast and enter this (original) body like on entering a city.

3. O sinless one, continue your penance with this body and become the ‘Guru’ of Rakshasa tribes.  It is your duty.

4. When the time of great aeonic dissolution  occurs, cast away this body like a faded flower so that you do not have to take a body again.

5. After attaining the state of ‘Sivanmukta’, take a body with the same form as now and assure the ‘guruship’ of noble Rakshasas.

6. May you be blessed!  I am going in the direction of my liking when someone’s mind goes towards a certain thing, that thing will not become unliked.

7. -8. As he said thus, the two (Sukra and Bhrigu) were touched by affection and were moved to tears.  The sky became red with the setting sun.  Bhagawan Kāla left leaving the two behind to do what is to be done in the coming future.  The Bhrigus went into thoughts about the invincibility of the law of existence.

9. Sukra then entered his body, which declined due to some exigencies of time like spring entering a tender creeper.  ‘This body is going to be the cause of many auspicious events.’

10. At that time the body of the brahmin on the ‘Samanga’ banks fell to pieces like a creeper to its roots.

11. -12. Then the great sage Bhrigu sprinkled the sacred water from him ‘kamandalu’ on the body of his son.  Then all the nervous and other systems of the body became full with energy like a river being filled with waters in rainy season.

13. The body looked fully alive and developed like lotuses in spring.  Nails and hair shore lustrously.

14. Then Sukra stood up with all the vital airs flowing though the body in full force and rhythm.  It was like an ocean rising in tide due to the airs blowing across its surface.

15. Seeing his father before him, he bowed to him, the most sacred one.  It was like a mountain being pleased by the first thunder from a cloud.

16. -18. Then the father embraced his son with great affection like a cloud embracing a mountain.  He felt pleased with his son looking at it with intense love – ‘this body as due to me’.

19. -20 There was seen intense togetherness between father and son like a lotus garden and sun at the end of night.  They were like two Chakravaka birds on the advent of a cloud.

21. -22 They stood in ecstasy for a while struck by the long established affinity between them and the separation that they suffered.  They rose to leave that place for the ‘Samanga’ coast where lay the corpse of ‘Vasudara’ the brahmin-incarnation of Sukra.  They burnt that body to ashes according to the ordained rites.

22. Later, they continued their penance on the Mandara hill shining like sun and moon.

24. -26. Knowing what should be known, liberated while-in-life the two teachers of the world lived on unaffected by happiness or sorrows.  In course of time Sukra became the ‘Guru’ of Rakshasas.   Sage Bhrigu remained in that Supreme state (as Prajapti).  Thus Sukra, who originally lived in that Supreme state of self, slipped into other lower states due to a loss of memory of his original state.