SB 4.7.59 · Srimad-Bhagavatam

Devanagari

तमेव दयितं भूय आवृङ्क्ते पतिमम्बिका । अनन्यभावैकगतिं शक्ति: सुप्तेव पूरुषम् ॥ ५९ ॥

Verse text

tam eva dayitaṁ bhūya āvṛṅkte patim ambikā ananya-bhāvaika-gatiṁ śaktiḥ supteva pūruṣam

Synonyms

tam — him (Lord Śiva) ; eva — certainly ; dayitam — beloved ; bhūyaḥ — again ; āvṛṅkte — accepted ; patim — as her husband ; ambikā — Ambikā, or Satī ; ananya — bhāvā — without attachment for others ; eka — gatim — the one goal ; śaktiḥ — the feminine (marginal and external) energies ; suptā — lying dormant ; iva — as ; pūruṣam — the masculine (Lord Śiva, as representative of the Supreme Lord) .

Translation

Ambikā [goddess Durgā], who was known as Dākṣāyiṇī [Satī], again accepted Lord Śiva as her husband, just as different energies of the Supreme Personality of Godhead act during the course of a new creation.

Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)

Satī, who had attachment to no one else, again chose Śiva, as her one goal and as her beloved husband. She was like the sleeping energy at the time of universal dissolution, who then takes shelter of the Supreme Lord. Āvṛṅkte means chose. She had love for no one else (ananya-bhāvā). Śiva was her only goal (eka-gatim). At the time of devastation, the sleeping śakti takes shelter of the Supreme Lord who is awake (and then she becomes revived).

Purport

According to a verse of the Vedic mantras, parāsya śaktir vividhaiva śrūyate: the Supreme Personality of Godhead has different varieties of energies. Śakti is feminine, and the Lord is puruṣa, masculine. It is the duty of the female to serve under the supreme puruṣa. As stated in Bhagavad-gītā, all living entities are marginal energies of the Supreme Lord. Therefore it is the duty of all living entities to serve this Supreme Person. Durgā is the representation in the material world of both the marginal and external energies, and Lord Śiva is the representation of the Supreme Person. The connection of Lord Śiva and Ambikā, or Durgā, is eternal. Satī could not accept any husband but Lord Śiva. How Lord Śiva remarried Durgā as Himavatī, the daughter of the Himālayas, and how Kārttikeya was born, is a great story in itself.