It is natural for an advocate to sing the glories of his client, whether the latter
is worthy of such praise or not. It’s a part of their profession. Likewise, the bards and
poets are inclined to raise to the heaven their patrons who have engaged them, no
matter if the concerned patron is not even worth the while paying any attention. This
seems to be the case with you. You are criticizing Lord Shiva because you may not be
pleased with him, or he may not have done your bidding at some point of time. So
you want to avenge it. I request you to please go away from here and stop nagging me
further.]’ (65)
Then Parvati turned to her companion once again and said, ‘Oh friend! Tell
him that it is getting late and he should proceed to his other destination. Look, let him
not think of some other mischief or lecture me with some new illogical reasoning and
utter some further nonsense. [I am fed up with him, so tell him to scoot from here.]’
(66)
Shiva reveals himselftfu dgfga dNq fcijhr tkur çhfr jhfr u ckr dhA
flo lk/kq fuandq ean vfr tksm lquS lksm cM+ ikrdhAA
lqfu cpu lksf/k lusgq rqylh lk¡p vfcpy ikouksA
Hk, çxV d#ukfla/kq lad# Hkky pan lqgkouksAA8AA
jani kahahiṁ kachu biparīta jānata prīti rīti na bāta kī.
siva sādhu nindaku manda ati jō'u sunai sō'u baṛa pātakī.
suni bacana sōdhi sanēhu tulasī sām̐ca abicala pāvanō.
bha'ē pragaṭa karunāsindhu saṅkaru bhāla canda suhāvanō. 8.
Chanda 8. What to say of courteous manners and a civilized way of talking about
others, this fellow (the Batu) does not even know the essential etiquettes of talking
with a stranger. [Parvati is chiding the Batu of talking irrelevant and irreverent things
about Lord Shiva even though she has not asked him for his advice. Why is he
thrusting himself upon her when she does not like to see his face and hear a single
more word from him?]
He must not speak uninvited; he must abstain from saying uncivilised,
impolite and unpleasant thing about others, especially Lord Shiva, and instead keep
quiet. Those who criticise or speak ill of Shiva and saints are indeed very sinful, mean
and lowly^1. Anyone who hears that sort of mean talk is also very sinful himself.
[Doesn’t this fellow know this—that it is very sinful and unholy to speak bad about
Lord Shiva who is worshipped by even the Gods, and is honoured by them with the
venerated title of being a ‘Maha-deva’, the Great God. Has this Batu lost his mind? In
my opinion, it is not Shiva but this Batu who is crazy and eccentric because he is
talking like one.]’
Tulsidas says that upon hearing these words, and recognising the genuinness
and steadfastness of love, affection and devotion that Parvati had for her Lord Shiva,
the Batu revealed his true form as Shiva himself, the Lord who is like an ocean of
compassion, kindness and grace. The moon was adorning his forehead.
[As we have already read in Chanda no. 5, Shiva wanted to test the sincerity
and integrity of Parvati himself, and so he assumed the form of a Batu, a celibate
young Brahim, and went to her. After telling Parvati all the negative things one never
imagine that a prospective groom will have, and then discovering her steadfastness