Verse 6

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। ॥ ६ ॥

In plain words

Though the body is exceedingly painful, and enemy, children, wife, or wealth are ever roots of fear, no one becomes detached. How strange, O Devī! Without your Kaṭākṣa, how could Tattva-bodha arise?

Close to the Sanskrit

In the exceedingly painful body, in an enemy, in the group of one’s children, in a wife, or in wealth — the constant root of fear — no one becomes detached. Ah, O Devī, how strange! Without your Kaṭākṣa, how can Tattva-bodha arise?