2 - The curse pronounced by Parvati on the Gods

Narayana said - Lord Mahadeva advised the gods after leaving the conjugal pleasure to run away from the place. He said: "You at once flee from his place.” 

The gods who were terrified from the curse of Parvati fled away from the place and lord Shiva also started trembling for fear of Parvati. 

Durga got up from the bed and after doing so she did not find the gods there. At once she felt enraged but she contained her anger in the body itself. 

But getting immensely annoyed Parvati pronounced a curse on the gods, that their semen should become infructuous and they shall no able to produce children thereafter. Shiva looked at Parvati who was standing there with her eyes turned red and was crying at the same time. She stood there still. Shiva, finding Parvati in anger and her eyes turned red was disturbed at heart. He then held her hand and embraced her; getting terrified he spoke to her in a sweet voice. 

Shiva said - О daughter of the mountains, you are quite graceful and attract the mind, you are my fortune and the goddess of my heart, О mother of the universe, you let me know your desire. I am sure to fulfil the same. 

There is nothing beyond our reach in this universe. 

Therefore, О beautiful one, you forgive me, since I am quite innocent. I have committed a crime unknowingly. You please forgive me; I am Shiva only in union with you and can bestow welfare to all.

Without you I am like a dead body and become the cause of miseries, О best of the goddess, you are Prakruti, intelligence, prowess, forgiveness, mercy, satisfaction, support, sleep, peace, anger, shadow, drowsiness and faith.

О Shiva, you are the base for all, the seed for all; therefore, you speak in a pleasant voice, wearing a smile on your face. 

Because of the poison of your anger I have been burnt alive. You bring me back to life. On hearing the words of Shiva, Parvati who always believed in forgiveness, spoke the pleasant words. 

Parvati said - What shall I talk to you? You are all knowledgeable, the form of everything, the one who pervades the soul, accomplish all deeds and pervades the body of everyone. 

A damsel reveals her mind to her husband but you are the one who knows the minds of all; therefore, what can I speak to you since you know everything? 

O Mahesha, I am telling you something which is quite secretive, shameful and beyond expression. 

О best of the gods, it is a matter of great pleasure for ladies to enjoy the company of their husbands in secluded places. 

And there is no other mental agony for a lady when she is deprived of it because the separation from her husband is quite unbearable for the ladies. О lord, as the moon goes on reducing during the black fortnight, similarly a lady without the husband goes on reducing. Worry is the cause of mental agony for all, for the costumes the summer season is unbearable and for the chaste lady, the separation from husband is quite painful and for the horses, the love making is painful. 

The disturbance in conjugal pleasure and the second painful experience is the fall of your semen on the ground and the third painful experience is that I have no son. 

I don’t have a son inspire of achieving you the lord of the three worlds as my husband. Such of the ladies who have no sons, their life is said to be of no consequence. 

The merit earned by performing tapas and charity provides pleasure after many births but a son born in the high race, provides pleasure in this world and even beyond. 

A son born from the husband who provides pleasure is like a husband and if he happens to be a wicked son, he serves like a burning flame. He creates mental agony. 

The lords of the noble ladies appear from their womb by uniting with their husbands and the chaste lady always thinks of welfare of all like a mother. 

An unchaste woman produces sons who provide mental agony like an enemy. The wicked women are of three types viz., those who speak unchaste words, those who indulge in unholy contacts and those who are unchaste by nature. 

О lord of the yogis, you are the ocean of remedies and provide the result of the tapas. Therefore, you tell me what I should do. 

Thus, speaking Parvati cast her head downwards and Shiva smilingly consoled her. 

Lord Shiva started speaking pleasant words which removed her mental agony. His eyes were filled with love, quite pleasant and appeared to be the cause of having a noble son.