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Shamika

शमीक

Also known as आङ्गिरसः

Shamika, a brahmarshi of the Angirasa line and father of Shringi, was a sage settled in trance, his senses, breath, mind and understanding restrained, abiding 'beyond the three states, become Brahman' (SB 1.18.26). In SB 1.18 the exhausted, hungry and thirsty Parikshit asked him for water; receiving no answer because of the trance, the king felt slighted and laid a dead snake on his shoulder. When roused, Shamika counted his own humiliation as nothing and instead, tormented by his son's curse, rebuked him — 'for a very slight offence you have imposed an enormous punishment' — and prayed the Lord's forgiveness. In the Bhagavata he is the exemplar of saintly temper: 'the saintly are neither distressed nor delighted amid the pairs of opposites' (SB 1.18.50).

Śrīmad Bhāgavata Mahāpurāṇa 1.18.25 — Sanskrit Wikisource (pinned oldid=110189)