Put away all anxiety, my dear, and fix your thoughts on the good God, who has created Pârvatî and who will protect her.
Now, if you have any love for your child, go, and thus admonish her: “Penance is the means of approach to Siva, and there is no other way of escaping sorrow. Nârad's words are pregnant and full of meaning; Mahâdeva is in fact beautiful and accomplished; recognize this truth and doubt not; he is in every way irreproachable.” When she heard her husband's words she was glad of heart and at once rose and went where Umâ was. On seeing the girl her eyes filled with tears, and she affectionately took her in her lap and again and again pressed her to her bosom; but could not say a word for the choking in her throat. Then the mother of the universe, the all-wise Bhavânî, her mother's delight, said softly:—
Now, if you have any love for your child, go, and thus admonish her: “Penance is the means of approach to Siva, and there is no other way of escaping sorrow. Nârad's words are pregnant and full of meaning; Mahâdeva is in fact beautiful and accomplished; recognize this truth and doubt not; he is in every way irreproachable.” When she heard her husband's words she was glad of heart and at once rose and went where Umâ was. On seeing the girl her eyes filled with tears, and she affectionately took her in her lap and again and again pressed her to her bosom; but could not say a word for the choking in her throat. Then the mother of the universe, the all-wise Bhavânî, her mother's delight, said softly:—