आयुधानामहं वज्रं धेनूनामस्मि कामधुक्। प्रजनश्चास्मि कन्दर्पः सर्पाणामस्मि वासुकिः।।10.28।।
āyudhānām ahaṁ vajraṁ dhenūnām asmi kāmadhuk prajanaśh chāsmi kandarpaḥ sarpāṇām asmi vāsukiḥ
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Sanskrit to English Translation
A Reading - Rantideb
Why: among weapons, he is the thunderbolt, among cows, the wish-fulfilling cow, among causes of procreation, he is love, among serpents, Vasuki, again ranging widely, this time into instruments, sustenance, and desire itself.
In life: naming desire itself, in its generative, non-harmful form, as one of these essential manifestations is notable, it again distinguishes ordinary desire from desire that violates deeper values.
Teaching: revisit your own relationship to desire with this distinction in mind, not all desire is suspect, some of it, aligned with genuine generativity and care, is treated here as entirely legitimate and even essential.