गिरिशं ददृशे गच्छन् परीतं सिद्धचारणैः ॥४॥
आलिङ्ग्याङ्कीकृतां देवीं बाहुना मुनिसंसदि ।
उवाच देव्याः शृण्वन्त्या जहासोच्चैस्तदन्तिके ॥५॥
ekadÄ sa vimÄnena
viṣṇu-dattena bhÄsvatÄ
giriśaṠdadṛśe gacchan
parÄ«taá¹ siddha-cÄraṇaiḥ
Äliá¹…gyÄá¹…kÄ«ká¹›tÄá¹ devÄ«á¹
bÄhunÄ muni-saá¹sadi
uvÄca devyÄḥ śṛṇvantyÄ
jahÄsoccais tad-antike
ekadÄ - one time; saḥ - he (King Citraketu); vimÄnena - with his airplane; viṣṇu-dattena - given to him by Lord Viṣṇu; bhÄsvatÄ - shining brilliantly; giriÅ›am - Lord Åšiva; dadṛśe - he saw; gacchan - going; parÄ«tam - surrounded; siddha - by the inhabitants of Siddhaloka; cÄraṇaiḥ - and the inhabitants of CÄraṇaloka; Äliá¹…gya - embracing; aá¹…kÄ«ká¹›tÄm - sitting on his lap; devÄ«m - his wife, PÄrvatÄ«; bÄhunÄ - with his arm; muni-saá¹sadi - in the presence of great saintly persons; uvÄca - he said; devyÄḥ - while the goddess PÄrvatÄ«; śṛṇvantyÄḥ - was hearing; jahÄsa - he laughed; uccaiḥ - very loudly; tad-antike - in the vicinity.
One time while King Citraketu was traveling in outer space on a brilliantly effulgent airplane given to him by Lord Viṣṇu, he saw Lord Åšiva, surrounded by Siddhas and CÄraṇas. Lord Åšiva was sitting in an assembly of great saintly persons and embracing PÄrvatÄ« on his lap with his arm. Citraketu laughed loudly and spoke, within the hearing of PÄrvatÄ«.
ÅšrÄ«la ViÅ›vanÄtha CakravartÄ« ṬhÄkura says in this connection,
bhaktiá¹ bhÅ«tiá¹ harir dattvÄ
sva-vicchedÄnubhÅ«taye
devyÄḥ Å›Äpena vá¹›tratvaá¹
nÄ«tvÄ taá¹ svÄntike ’nayat
The purport is that the Supreme Personality of Godhead wanted to bring Citraketu to Vaikuṇá¹haloka as soon as possible. The Lord’s plan was that Citraketu be cursed by PÄrvatÄ« to become Vá¹›trÄsura so that in his next life he could quickly return home, back to Godhead. There have been many instances in which a devotee acting as a demon has been brought to the kingdom of God by the mercy of the Lord. For PÄrvatÄ« to be embraced by Lord Åšiva was natural in a relationship between husband and wife; this was nothing extraordinary for Citraketu to see. Nonetheless, Citraketu laughed loudly to see Lord Åšiva in that situation, even though he should not have done so. Thus he was eventually cursed, and this curse was the cause of his returning home, back to Godhead.
