Verse 40

³⁶Seeing that trouble of theirs, hard pressed with pity, the god who is friend to all beings said this to Sati, his dear one. ³⁷Ah, Bhavani, look at this ruin of the creatures, come upon them out of the Kalakuta that has risen from the churning of the ocean of milk. ³⁸Safety must be made by me for these, who want to keep their breath. That is the whole use of a lord: that he protect the wretched. ³⁹Good men guard living beings with their own breath, which can break in a moment, when beings are bound in enmity and bewildered by the maya of the self. ⁴⁰When a man shows pity, good woman, Hari, the self of all, is pleased; and when Hari the Bhagavan is pleased, I am pleased, and all that moves and does not move. So I will eat this poison. Let there be well-being for the creatures.