9 - Sight of child Ganesha 

Narayana said - О sage, after the disappearance of the lord from the scene, both Durga and Shiva went in search of the Brahmana in all directions. 

Parvati said - O extremely old Brahmana, you were quite hungry; where have you gone? O father, O illustrious one, you appear before me and save my life. O Shiva, get up at once and search for the Brahmana. He appeared before us for a moment only. O lord, the houseolder from whose house a hungry and thirsty guest goes away without adoration, the life of the same house-holder becomes of no consequence.

Because the manes do not accept the offering the pindas and offering made in fire from his hands. The gods also do not accept the flower and water offered from his hand.

Не performing of yajna offering of flowers, water and other articles become impure beside the pindas. The merits vanish with the touch of such a person. In the meantime, a divine voice was heard from the sky when Durga was feeling immensely grieved. It said, "O mother of the universe, be peaceful." You go to your son who is the lord of Goloka and is the form of lord Krishna completely and who happens to be the best of the humans. 

He happens to be the result of the Supunyakavrata performed by you and whom the great yogis meditate upon always with a pleasant mind. 

He is the one who is adored first by the gods like Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva and Vaisnava gods in every kalpa. 

With the mere reciting of whose names all the obstructions disappear. You go to your abode and find your virtuous son, who has taken to the human form, showing his grace on the devotees. 

He is the seed for the fulfilling of your desire and is the fruit of the kalpavruksha as a result of your tapas. You look at the beautiful son who surpasses the beauty of the crores of the gods of love. 

He was not a hungry or a thirsty Brahmana but was lord Janardana turned as a Brahmana. Therefore, why are you lamenting? Where is the old man and where is the guest?" О Narada, thus speaking the eternal voice was over. 

The terrified goddess Durga listening to the divine voice from the sky rushed to her house and saw an infant placed on her bed, wearing a smile on his face. He was looking at the vase at the top of the house and was having the lustre of hundreds of moons. He was illuminating the earth with his lustre. 

He was rolling over the bed delightfully and was looking everywhere at will. He then started crying for sucking milk. 

While crying, he uttered the word Uma. Gauri who bestows welfare to all, saw the infant with astonishing beauty and went to lord Shiva and then spoke to him. 

Parvati said - О lord of all, you come home and find the one who bestows the reward of the tapas in all the kalpas and find him there. 

Soon you will see the face of your son, who is the cause of merit, the great festival and protects from the hell named Pumnama; he is the one who can redeem us from the ocean of the universe. 

The merit one earns by taking a bath in all the holy places of diksha for all the yajnas, will not compare even the one sixteenth ray of the glory of the son. 

The merit one earns by giving away everything in charity or by taking a bath in all the holy places does not compare even the sixteenth part of the merit earned by looking at the face of a son.

The merit one earns by performing all the tapas, vratas and fasting does not compare with the merit one earns by looking at the face of a son. 

The merit one earns by feeding the Brahmana and serving the gods does not compare even the sixteenth part of the merit one earns by looking at the face of the son. Shiva felt delighted and thereafter he went to the inner apartment with his wife and found the child having a fair complexion like gold who was quite pleasant to look at. 

Goddess Durga lifted up the son from the bed and took him in her arms. She was filled with ecstasy and kissed him. Thereafter she said, "As a mind of pauper is delighted at the sudden receiving of immense riches, Similarly, I have achieved a gem like you." You are completely eternal. 

As a wife derives pleasure after the arrival of her husband from some other country after staying there, Similarly, my mind has been delighted. 

As a mother feels delighted on the arrival of her son after a long time, Similarly, I feel immensely happy; as one gets suddenly the gem which was lost long back or a rainfall after a prolonged drought delights the people, Similarly, I have been delighted at the arrival of the son.

The pleasure a blind man obtains when he gets back his eye-sight, the same type of pleasure I have got by getting the son. 

As a man who is thrown into the difficult ocean without a support or a boat and during the time of misery if one gets a boat, the pleasure he derives can be compared with that of my pleasure. 

A person whose throat is dried up due to thirst for long and he is delighted suddenly on receiving the cool and fragrant water, his mind is thus filled with pleasure, Similarly, my mind is feeling pleased. 

A person who is surrounded by a forest fire all round and is suddenly rescued, the pleasure he derives in such an eventuality is comparable to my present pleasure. 

A person who suffers because of performing vrata for a long time and remains without food and water but finds the delicious food before him is pleased. Similarly, my mind is also feeling pleasure.

Thus speaking Parvati carrying the child in her lap, fed him from her breasts. Thereafter Shiva too held the child in his lap and delightfully kissed him, blessing him at the same time according to

the Vedic rites.