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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 1,
"chapter": 14,
"verse": 1,
"reference": "SB 1.14.1",
"devanagari": "सूत उवाच\nसम्प्रस्थिते द्वारकायां जिष्णौ बन्धुदिदृक्षया\nज्ञातुं च पुण्यश्लोकस्य कृष्णस्य च विचेष्टितम्",
"transliteration": "sūta uvāca\nsamprasthite dvārakāyāṁ\njiṣṇau bandhu-didṛkṣayā\njñātuṁ ca puṇya-ślokasya\nkṛṣṇasya ca viceṣṭitam",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "śrī sūtaḥ uvāca",
"meanings": [
"Śrī Sūta Gosvāmī said"
]
},
{
"word": "samprasthite",
"meanings": [
"having gone to"
]
},
{
"word": "dvārakāyām",
"meanings": [
"the city of Dvārakā"
]
},
{
"word": "jiṣṇau",
"meanings": [
"Arjuna"
]
},
{
"word": "bandhu",
"meanings": [
"friends and relatives"
]
},
{
"word": "didṛkṣayā",
"meanings": [
"for meeting them"
]
},
{
"word": "jñātum",
"meanings": [
"to know"
]
},
{
"word": "ca",
"meanings": [
"also"
]
},
{
"word": "puṇya-ślokasya",
"meanings": [
"of one whose glories are sung by Vedic hymns"
]
},
{
"word": "kṛṣṇasya",
"meanings": [
"of Lord Kṛṣṇa"
]
},
{
"word": "ca",
"meanings": [
"and"
]
},
{
"word": "viceṣṭitam",
"meanings": [
"further programs of work."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>Śrī Sūta Gosvāmī said: </b><b>Arjuna went to Dvārakā to see Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa and other friends and also to learn from the Lord of His next activities.</b>",
"purport": [
"As stated in the <i>Bhagavad-gītā,</i> the Lord descended on earth for the protection of the faithful and annihilation of the impious, so after the Battle of Kurukṣetra and establishment of Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira, the mission of the Lord was complete. The Pāṇḍavas, especially Śrī Arjuna, were eternal companions of the Lord, and therefore Arjuna went to Dvārakā to hear from the Lord of His next program of work."
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 1,
"chapter": 14,
"verse": 2,
"reference": "SB 1.14.2",
"devanagari": "व्यतीताः कतिचिन्मासास्तदा नायात्ततो ऽर्जुनः\nददर्श घोररूपाणि निमित्तानि कुरूद्वहः",
"transliteration": "vyatītāḥ katicin māsās\ntadā nāyāt tato 'rjunaḥ\ndadarśa ghora-rūpāṇi\nnimittāni kurūdvahaḥ",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "vyatītāḥ",
"meanings": [
"after passing away"
]
},
{
"word": "katicit",
"meanings": [
"a few"
]
},
{
"word": "māsāḥ",
"meanings": [
"months"
]
},
{
"word": "tadā",
"meanings": [
"at that time"
]
},
{
"word": "na āyāt",
"meanings": [
"did not return"
]
},
{
"word": "tataḥ",
"meanings": [
"from there"
]
},
{
"word": "arjunaḥ",
"meanings": [
"Arjuna"
]
},
{
"word": "dadarśa",
"meanings": [
"observed"
]
},
{
"word": "ghora",
"meanings": [
"fearful"
]
},
{
"word": "rūpāṇi",
"meanings": [
"appearances"
]
},
{
"word": "nimittāni",
"meanings": [
"various causes"
]
},
{
"word": "kurūdvahaḥ",
"meanings": [
"Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>A few months passed, and Arjuna did not return. Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira then began to observe some inauspicious omens, which were fearful in themselves.</b>",
"purport": [
"Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa the Supreme Personality of Godhead is <i>ad infinitum,</i> more powerful than the most powerful sun of our experience. Millions and billions of suns are created by Him and annihilated by Him within His one breathing period. In the material world the sun is considered to be the source of all productivity and material energy, and due to the sun only we can have the necessities of life. Therefore, during the personal presence of the Lord on the earth, all paraphernalia of our peace and prosperity, especially religion and knowledge, were in full display because of the Lord’s presence, just as there is a full flood of light in the presence of the glowing sun. Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira observed some discrepancies in his kingdom, and therefore he became very anxious about Arjuna, who was long absent, and there was also no news about Dvārakā's well-being. He suspected the disappearance of Lord Kṛṣṇa, otherwise there would have been no possibility of fearful omens."
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 1,
"chapter": 14,
"verse": 3,
"reference": "SB 1.14.3",
"devanagari": "कालस्य च गतिं रौद्रां विपर्यस्तर्तु धर्मिणः\nपापीयसीं नृणां वार्तां क्रोधलोभानृतात्मनाम्",
"transliteration": "kālasya ca gatiṁ raudrāṁ\nviparyastar tu dharmiṇaḥ\npāpīyasīṁ nṛṇāṁ vārtāṁ\nkrodha-lobhānṛtātmanām",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "kālasya",
"meanings": [
"of the eternal time"
]
},
{
"word": "ca",
"meanings": [
"also"
]
},
{
"word": "gatim",
"meanings": [
"direction"
]
},
{
"word": "raudrām",
"meanings": [
"fearful"
]
},
{
"word": "viparyastaḥ",
"meanings": [
"discrepancies"
]
},
{
"word": "tu",
"meanings": [
"but"
]
},
{
"word": "dharmiṇaḥ",
"meanings": [
"specific function"
]
},
{
"word": "pāpīyasīm",
"meanings": [
"sinful"
]
},
{
"word": "nṛṇām",
"meanings": [
"of the human being"
]
},
{
"word": "vārtām",
"meanings": [
"means of livelihood"
]
},
{
"word": "krodha",
"meanings": [
"anger"
]
},
{
"word": "lobha",
"meanings": [
"greed"
]
},
{
"word": "anṛta",
"meanings": [
"falsehood"
]
},
{
"word": "ātmanām",
"meanings": [
"of the people."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>He saw that the direction of eternal time had changed, and this was very fearful. There were disruptions in the seasonal regularities. The people in general had become very greedy, angry and deceitful. And he saw that they were adopting foul means of livelihood.</b>",
"purport": [
"When civilization is disconnected from the loving relation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, symptoms like changes of seasonal regulations, foul means of livelihood, greed, anger and fraudulence become rampant. The change of seasonal regulations refers to the atmosphere of one season becoming manifest in another season, for example the rainy season being transferred to autumn, or the fruits and flowers of one season fructifying in another season. A godless man is invariably greedy, angry and fraudulent. Such a man can earn his livelihood by any means, black or white. During the reign of Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira, all the above symptoms were conspicuous by their absence. But Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira was astonished to experience even a slight change in the godly atmosphere of his kingdom, and at once he suspected the disappearance of the Lord. Foul means of livelihood implies deviation from one's occupational duty. There are prescribed duties for everyone, such as the <i>brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya, vaiśya</i> and <i>śūdra,</i> but any one of them who deviates from his prescribed duty and declares another’s duty to be his own is following a foul and improper duty. A man becomes too greedy for wealth and power when he has no higher objective in life and when he thinks that this earthly life of a few years is all in all. Ignorance is the cause for all these anomalies in human society, and to remove this ignorance, especially in this age of degradation, the powerful sun is there to distribute light in the shape of <i>Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.</i>"
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 1,
"chapter": 14,
"verse": 4,
"reference": "SB 1.14.4",
"devanagari": "जिह्मप्रायं व्यवहृतं शाठ्यमिश्रं च सौहृदम्\nपितृमातृसुहृद्भ्रातृ दम्पतीनां च कल्कनम्",
"transliteration": "jihmaprāyaṁ vyavahṛtaṁ\nśāṭhya-miśraṁ ca sauhṛdam\npitṛ-mātṛ-suhṛd-bhrātṛ-\ndampatīnāṁ ca kalkanam",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "jihma-prāyam",
"meanings": [
"cheating"
]
},
{
"word": "vyavahṛtam",
"meanings": [
"in all ordinary transactions"
]
},
{
"word": "śāṭhya",
"meanings": [
"duplicity"
]
},
{
"word": "miśram ca",
"meanings": [
"adulterated in and"
]
},
{
"word": "sauhṛdam",
"meanings": [
"regarding friendly well-wishers"
]
},
{
"word": "pitṛ",
"meanings": [
"father"
]
},
{
"word": "mātṛ",
"meanings": [
"regarding the mother"
]
},
{
"word": "suhṛt",
"meanings": [
"well-wishers"
]
},
{
"word": "bhrātṛ",
"meanings": [
"one's own brother"
]
},
{
"word": "dampatīnām",
"meanings": [
"regarding husband and wife"
]
},
{
"word": "ca",
"meanings": [
"also"
]
},
{
"word": "kalkanam",
"meanings": [
"mutual quarrel."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>All ordinary transactions and dealings became polluted with cheating, even between friends. And in familial affairs, there was always misunderstanding between fathers and mothers and sons, and between well-wishers and between brothers. Even between husband and wife there was always strain and quarrel.</b>",
"purport": [
"A conditioned living being is endowed with four principles of malpractice, namely errors, insanity, inability and cheating. These are signs of imperfection, and out of the four the propensity to cheat others is most prominent. And this cheating practice is there in the conditioned souls because the conditioned souls are primarily in the material world imbued with an unnatural desire to lord it over the material world. A living being in his pure state is not conditioned by the laws because in his pure state he is conscious that a living being is eternally subservient to the Supreme Being, and thus it is always good for him to remain subservient, instead of falsely trying to lord it over the property of the Supreme Lord. In the conditioned state the living being is not satisfied even if he actually becomes the lord of all that he surveys, which he never becomes, and therefore he becomes the victim of all kinds of cheating, even with his nearest and most intimate, relations. In such an unsatisfactory state of affairs, there is no harmony, even between father and sons or between husband and wife. But all these contending difficulties can be mitigated by one process, and that is devotional service of the Lord. The world of hypocrisy can be checked only by counteraction of devotional service of the Lord and nothing else. Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira, having observed the disparities, conjectured the disappearance of the Lord from the earth."
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 1,
"chapter": 14,
"verse": 5,
"reference": "SB 1.14.5",
"devanagari": "निमित्तान्य् अत्यरिष्टानि काले त्व् अनुगते नृणाम्\nलोभाद्यधर्मप्रकृतिं दृष्ट्वोवाचानुजं नृपः",
"transliteration": "nimittāny atyariṣṭāni\nkāle tv anugate nṛṇām\nlobhādy-adharma-prakṛtiṁ\ndṛṣṭvovācānujaṁ nṛpaḥ",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "nimittāni",
"meanings": [
"causes"
]
},
{
"word": "ati",
"meanings": [
"very serious"
]
},
{
"word": "ariṣṭāni",
"meanings": [
"bad omens"
]
},
{
"word": "kāle",
"meanings": [
"in course of time"
]
},
{
"word": "tu",
"meanings": [
"but"
]
},
{
"word": "anugate",
"meanings": [
"passing away"
]
},
{
"word": "nṛṇām",
"meanings": [
"of humanity at large"
]
},
{
"word": "lobhādi",
"meanings": [
"agreed, etc."
]
},
{
"word": "adharma",
"meanings": [
"irreligious"
]
},
{
"word": "prakṛtim",
"meanings": [
"habits"
]
},
{
"word": "dṛṣṭvā",
"meanings": [
"having observed"
]
},
{
"word": "uvāca",
"meanings": [
"said"
]
},
{
"word": "anujam",
"meanings": [
"younger brother"
]
},
{
"word": "nṛpaḥ",
"meanings": [
"the King."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>In course of time it came to pass that people in general became accustomed to greed, anger, pride, etc. Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira, observing all these omens, spoke to his younger brother.</b>",
"purport": [
"A pious king like Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira at once became perturbed when there were such inhuman symptoms as greed, anger, irreligiosity and hypocrisy rampant in society. And it appears from this statement that all these symptoms of degraded society were unknown to the people of the time, and it was astonishing for them to have experienced them with the advent of the Kali-yuga or the age of quarrel."
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 1,
"chapter": 14,
"verse": 6,
"reference": "SB 1.14.6",
"devanagari": "युधिष्ठिर उवाच\nसम्प्रेषितो द्वारकायां जिष्णुर्बन्धुदिदृक्षया\nज्ञातुं च पुण्यश्लोकस्य कृष्णस्य च विचेष्टितम्",
"transliteration": "yudhiṣṭhira uvāca\nsampreṣito dvārakāyāṁ\njiṣṇur bandhu-didṛkṣayā\njñātuṁ ca puṇya-ślokasya\nkṛṣṇasya ca viceṣṭitam",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "yudhiṣṭhiraḥ uvāca",
"meanings": [
"Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira said"
]
},
{
"word": "sampreṣitaḥ",
"meanings": [
"has gone to"
]
},
{
"word": "dvārakāyām",
"meanings": [
"Dvārakā"
]
},
{
"word": "jiṣṇuḥ",
"meanings": [
"Arjuna"
]
},
{
"word": "bandhu",
"meanings": [
"friends"
]
},
{
"word": "didṛkṣayā",
"meanings": [
"for the sake of meeting"
]
},
{
"word": "jñātum",
"meanings": [
"to know"
]
},
{
"word": "ca",
"meanings": [
"also"
]
},
{
"word": "puṇya-ślokasya",
"meanings": [
"of the Personality of Godhead"
]
},
{
"word": "kṛṣṇasya",
"meanings": [
"of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa"
]
},
{
"word": "ca",
"meanings": [
"and"
]
},
{
"word": "viceṣṭitam",
"meanings": [
"program of work."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira said to his younger brother Bhīmasena: Bhīmasena, I sent Arjuna to Dvārakā to meet his friends and to learn from the Personality of Godhead Kṛṣṇa of His program of work.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 1,
"chapter": 14,
"verse": 7,
"reference": "SB 1.14.7",
"devanagari": "गताः सप्ताधुना मासा भीमसेन तवानुजः\nनायाति कस्य वा हेतोर्नाहं वेदेदम् अंजसा",
"transliteration": "gatāḥ saptādhunā māsā\nbhīmasena tavānujaḥ\nnāyāti kasya vā hetor-\nnāhaṁ vededam añjasā",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "gatāḥ",
"meanings": [
"has gone"
]
},
{
"word": "sapta",
"meanings": [
"seven"
]
},
{
"word": "adhunā",
"meanings": [
"to date"
]
},
{
"word": "māsāḥ",
"meanings": [
"months"
]
},
{
"word": "bhīmasena",
"meanings": [
"O Bhīmasena"
]
},
{
"word": "tava",
"meanings": [
"your"
]
},
{
"word": "anujaḥ",
"meanings": [
"younger brother"
]
},
{
"word": "na",
"meanings": [
"does not"
]
},
{
"word": "āyāti",
"meanings": [
"come back"
]
},
{
"word": "kasya",
"meanings": [
"for what"
]
},
{
"word": "vā",
"meanings": [
"or"
]
},
{
"word": "hetoḥ",
"meanings": [
"reason"
]
},
{
"word": "na",
"meanings": [
"not"
]
},
{
"word": "aham",
"meanings": [
"I"
]
},
{
"word": "veda",
"meanings": [
"know"
]
},
{
"word": "idam",
"meanings": [
"this"
]
},
{
"word": "añjasā",
"meanings": [
"factually."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>Since he departed, seven months have passed, yet he has not returned. I do not know factually how things are going there.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 1,
"chapter": 14,
"verse": 8,
"reference": "SB 1.14.8",
"devanagari": "अपि देवर्षिणादिष्टः स कालो ऽयम् उपस्थितः\nयदात्मनो ऽंगम् आक्रीडं भगवान् उत्सिसृक्षति",
"transliteration": "api devarṣiṇādiṣṭaḥ\nsa kālo 'yam upasthitaḥ\nyadātmano 'ṅgam ākrīḍaṁ\nbhagavān utsisṛkṣati",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "api",
"meanings": [
"whether"
]
},
{
"word": "devarṣiṇā",
"meanings": [
"by the demigod-saint (Nārada)"
]
},
{
"word": "ādiṣṭaḥ",
"meanings": [
"instructed"
]
},
{
"word": "saḥ",
"meanings": [
"that"
]
},
{
"word": "kālaḥ",
"meanings": [
"eternal time"
]
},
{
"word": "ayam",
"meanings": [
"this"
]
},
{
"word": "upasthitaḥ",
"meanings": [
"arrived"
]
},
{
"word": "yadā",
"meanings": [
"when"
]
},
{
"word": "ātmanaḥ",
"meanings": [
"of His own self"
]
},
{
"word": "aṅgam",
"meanings": [
"plenary portion"
]
},
{
"word": "ākrīḍam",
"meanings": [
"manifestation"
]
},
{
"word": "bhagavān",
"meanings": [
"the Personality of Godhead"
]
},
{
"word": "utsisṛkṣati",
"meanings": [
"is going to quit."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>Is He going to quit His earthly pastimes, as Devarṣi Nārada indicated? Has that time already arrived?</b>",
"purport": [
"As we have discussed many times, the Supreme Personality of Godhead Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa has many plenary expansions, and each and every one of them, although equally powerful, executes different functions. In the <i>Bhagavad-gītā</i> there are different statements by the Lord, and each of these statements is meant for different plenary portions or portions of the plenary portions. For example, Śrī Kṛṣṇa the Lord says in the <i>Bhagavad-gītā:</i>",
"\"Whenever and wherever there is a decline in religious practice, O descendant of Bharata, and a predominant rise of irreligion—at that time I descend Myself.\" (Bg. 4.7)",
"“O son of Kuntī [Arjuna], I am the taste of water, the light of the sun and the moon, the syllable<i> om</i> in the Vedic <i>mantras</i>; I am the sound in ether and ability in man.” (Bg. 7.8)",
"\"If I should cease to work, then all these worlds would be put to ruination. I would also be the cause of creating unwanted population, and I would thereby destroy the peace of all sentient beings.\" (Bg. 3.24)",
"\"Whatever action is performed by a great man, common men will follow in his footsteps. And whatever standards he sets by exemplary acts, all the world pursues.\" (Bg. 3.21)",
"All the above statements of the Lord apply to different plenary portions of the Lord, namely His expansions of Saṅkarṣaṇa, Vāsudeva, Pradyumna, Aniruddha, Nārāyaṇa, etc. All these expansions are He Himself by different transcendental expansions, and still the Lord as Śrī Kṛṣṇa functions in a different sphere of transcendental exchange with different grades of devotees. And yet Lord Kṛṣṇa as He is appears once in the day of Brahmā (or after a lapse of 864 trillion solar years) in each and every universe, and all His transcendental pastimes are displayed in each and every universe in a routine spool. But in that routine spool the functions of Lord Kṛṣṇa, Lord Vāsudeva, etc., are complex problems for the layman. There is no difference between the Lord's Self and the Lord's transcendental body. The expansions execute differential activities. When the Lord, however, appears in His person as Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, His other plenary portions also join in Him by His inconceivable potency called <i>yogamāyā,</i> and thus the Lord Kṛṣṇa of Vṛndāvana is different from the Lord Kṛṣṇa of Mathurā or the Lord Kṛṣṇa of Dvārakā. The <i>virāṭa rūpa</i> of Lord Kṛṣṇa is also different from Him, by His inconceivable potency. The <i>virāṭa rūpa</i> exhibited on the Battlefield of Kurukṣetra is the material conception of His form. Therefore when Lord Kṛṣṇa was apparently killed by the bow and arrow of the hunter, it should be understood that the Lord left His so-called material body in the material world. The Lord is <i>kaivalya,</i> and for Him there is no difference between matter and spirit because everything is created from Him. Therefore His quitting one sort of body or accepting another body does not mean that He is like the ordinary living being. All such activities are simultaneously one and different by His inconceivable potency. When Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira was lamenting the possibility of His disappearance, it was just in pursuance of a custom of lamenting the disappearance of a great friend, but factually the Lord never quits His transcendental body, as is misconceived by less intelligent persons. Such less intelligent persons have been condemned by the Lord Himself in the <i>Bhagavad-gītā,</i> and they are known as the <i>mūḍhas.</i> That the Lord left His body means that He left again His plenary portions in the respective <i>dhāmas</i> (transcendental abodes), as He left His <i>virāṭa rūpa</i> in the material world."
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 1,
"chapter": 14,
"verse": 9,
"reference": "SB 1.14.9",
"devanagari": "यस्मान्नः सम्पदो राज्यं दाराः प्राणाः कुलं प्रजाः\nआसन्सपत्नविजयो लोकाश्च यदनुग्रहात्",
"transliteration": "yasmān naḥ sampado rājyaṁ\ndārāḥ prāṇāḥ kulaṁ prajāḥ\nāsan sapatna-vijayo\nlokāś ca yad-anugrahāt",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "yasmāt",
"meanings": [
"from whom"
]
},
{
"word": "naḥ",
"meanings": [
"our"
]
},
{
"word": "sampadaḥ",
"meanings": [
"opulence"
]
},
{
"word": "rājyam",
"meanings": [
"kingdom"
]
},
{
"word": "dārāḥ",
"meanings": [
"good wives"
]
},
{
"word": "prāṇāḥ",
"meanings": [
"existence of life"
]
},
{
"word": "kulam",
"meanings": [
"dynasty"
]
},
{
"word": "prajāḥ",
"meanings": [
"subjects"
]
},
{
"word": "āsan",
"meanings": [
"have become possible"
]
},
{
"word": "sapatna",
"meanings": [
"competitors"
]
},
{
"word": "vijayaḥ",
"meanings": [
"conquering"
]
},
{
"word": "lokāḥ",
"meanings": [
"future accomodation in higher planets"
]
},
{
"word": "ca",
"meanings": [
"and"
]
},
{
"word": "yat",
"meanings": [
"by whose"
]
},
{
"word": "anugrahāt",
"meanings": [
"by the mercy of."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>From Him only, all our kingly opulence, our good wives, lives, progeny, our control over our subjects, victory over our enemies and future accomodations in higher planets, have become possible. All this is due to His causeless mercy upon us.</b>",
"purport": [
"Material prosperity consists of a good wife, good home, sufficient land, good children, aristocratic family relations, victory over competitors and, by pious work, attainment of accomodations in the higher celestial planets for better facilities of material amenities. These facilities are earned not only by one's hard manual labor or by unfair means, but by the mercy of the Supreme Lord. Prosperity earned by one's personal endeavor also depends on the mercy of the Lord. Personal labor must be there in addition to the Lord's benediction, but without the Lord's benediction no one is successful simply by personal labor. The modernized man of Kali-yuga believes in personal endeavor and denies the benediction of the Supreme Lord. Even a great <i>sannyāsī</i> of India delivered speeches in Chicago protesting the benedictions of the Supreme Lord. But as far as Vedic <i>śāstras</i> are concerned, as we find in the pages of <i>Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam,</i> the ultimate sanction for all success rests in the hands of the Supreme Lord. Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira admits this truth in his personal success, and it behooves one to follow in the footsteps of a great king and devotee of the Lord to make life a full success. If one could achieve success without the sanction of the Lord then no medical practitioner would fail to cure a patient. Despite the most advanced treatment of a suffering patient by the most up-to-date medical practitioner, there is death, and even in the most hopeless case, without medical treatment, a patient is cured astonishingly. Therefore the conclusion is that God's sanction is the immediate cause for all happenings, good or bad. Any successful man should feel grateful to the Lord for all he has achieved."
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 1,
"chapter": 14,
"verse": 10,
"reference": "SB 1.14.10",
"devanagari": "पश्योत्पातान्नरव्याघ्र दिव्यान्भौमान्सदैहिकान्\nदारुणान्शंसतो ऽदूराद्भयं नो बुद्धिमोहनम्",
"transliteration": "paśyotpātān nara-vyāghra\ndivyān bhaumān sa-daihikān\ndāruṇān śaṁsato 'dūrād\nbhayaṁ no buddhi-mohanam",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "paśya",
"meanings": [
"just see"
]
},
{
"word": "utpātān",
"meanings": [
"disturbances"
]
},
{
"word": "nara-vyāghra",
"meanings": [
"O man of tigerlike strength"
]
},
{
"word": "divyān",
"meanings": [
"happenings in the sky or by planetary influence"
]
},
{
"word": "bhaumān",
"meanings": [
"happenings on the earth"
]
},
{
"word": "sa-daihikān",
"meanings": [
"happenings of the body and the mind"
]
},
{
"word": "dāruṇān",
"meanings": [
"awfully dangerous"
]
},
{
"word": "śaṁsataḥ",
"meanings": [
"indicating"
]
},
{
"word": "adūrāt",
"meanings": [
"in the near future"
]
},
{
"word": "bhayam",
"meanings": [
"danger"
]
},
{
"word": "naḥ",
"meanings": [
"our"
]
},
{
"word": "buddhi",
"meanings": [
"intelligence"
]
},
{
"word": "mohanam",
"meanings": [
"deluding."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>Just see, O man with a tiger's strength, how many miseries due to celestial influences, earthly reactions and bodily pains—all very dangerous in themselves—are forboding danger in the near future by deluding our intelligence.</b>",
"purport": [
"Material advancement of civilization means advancement of the reactions of the threefold miseries due to celestial influence, earthly reactions and bodily or mental pains. By the celestial influence of the stars there are many calamities like excessive heat, cold, rains or no rains, and the after effects are famine, disease, and epidemic, and the aggregate result is agony of the body and the mind. Man-made material science cannot do anything to counteract all these threefold miseries. They are all punishments from the superior energy of <i>māyā</i> under the direction of the Supreme Lord. Therefore our constant touch with the Lord by devotional service can give us relief without being disturbed in the discharge of our human duties. The <i>asuras</i>, however, do not believe in the existence of God, and they make their own plans to counteract all these threefold miseries, and so they meet with failures every time. The <i>Bhagavad-gītā</i> clearly states that the reaction of material energy is never to be conquered because of the binding effects of the three modes. They can simply be overcome by one who surrenders fully in devotion under the lotus feet of the Lord. (Bg. 7.14)"
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 1,
"chapter": 14,
"verse": 11,
"reference": "SB 1.14.11",
"devanagari": "ऊर्वक्षिबाहवो मह्यं स्फुरन्त्य् अंग पुनः पुनः\nवेपथुश्चापि हृदये आराद्दास्यन्ति विप्रियम्",
"transliteration": "ūrv-akṣi-bāhavo mahyaṁ\nsphuranty aṅga punaḥ punaḥ\nvepathuś cāpi hṛdaye\nārād dāsyanti vipriyam",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "ūru",
"meanings": [
"thighs"
]
},
{
"word": "akṣi",
"meanings": [
"eyes"
]
},
{
"word": "bāhavaḥ",
"meanings": [
"the arms"
]
},
{
"word": "mahyam",
"meanings": [
"in my"
]
},
{
"word": "sphuranti",
"meanings": [
"quivering"
]
},
{
"word": "aṅga",
"meanings": [
"left side of the body"
]
},
{
"word": "punaḥ punaḥ",
"meanings": [
"again and again"
]
},
{
"word": "vepathuḥ",
"meanings": [
"palpitations"
]
},
{
"word": "ca",
"meanings": [
"also"
]
},
{
"word": "api",
"meanings": [
"certainly"
]
},
{
"word": "hṛdaye",
"meanings": [
"in the heart"
]
},
{
"word": "ārāt",
"meanings": [
"due to fearfulness"
]
},
{
"word": "dāsyanti",
"meanings": [
"indicating"
]
},
{
"word": "vipriyam",
"meanings": [
"undesirables."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>The left side of my body, my thighs, arms and eyes are all quivering again and again. I am having heart palpitations due to fear. All this indicates undesirable happenings.</b>",
"purport": [
"Material existence is full of undesirables. Things we do not want are forced upon us by some superior energy, and we do not see that these undesirables are under the grip of the three modes of material nature. When a man’s eyes, arms and thighs all quiver constantly, one must know that something is going to happen which is undesirable. These undesirables are compared with fire in a forest. No one goes in the forest to set fire, but fire automatically takes place in the forest, creating inconceivable calamities for the living beings of the forest. Such fire cannot be extinguished by any human efforts. The fire can only be extinguished by the mercy of the Lord, who sends clouds to pour water on the forest. Similarly, undesirable happenings in life cannot be checked by any number of plans. Such miseries can be removed only by the mercy of the Lord, who sends His bona fide representatives to enlighten human beings and thus save them from all calamities."
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 1,
"chapter": 14,
"verse": 12,
"reference": "SB 1.14.12",
"devanagari": "शिवैषोद्यन्तम् आदित्यम् अभिरौत्य् अनलानना\nमाम् अंग सारमेयो ऽयम् अभिरेभत्य् अभीरुवत्",
"transliteration": "śivaiṣodyantam ādityam\nabhirauty analānanā\nmām aṅga sārameyo 'yam\nabhirebhaty abhīruvat",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "śivā",
"meanings": [
"jackal"
]
},
{
"word": "eṣā",
"meanings": [
"this"
]
},
{
"word": "udyantam",
"meanings": [
"rising"
]
},
{
"word": "ādityam",
"meanings": [
"unto the sun"
]
},
{
"word": "abhi",
"meanings": [
"towards"
]
},
{
"word": "rauti",
"meanings": [
"crying"
]
},
{
"word": "anala",
"meanings": [
"fire"
]
},
{
"word": "ānanā",
"meanings": [
"face"
]
},
{
"word": "mām",
"meanings": [
"unto me"
]
},
{
"word": "aṅga",
"meanings": [
"O Bhīma"
]
},
{
"word": "sārameyaḥ",
"meanings": [
"dog"
]
},
{
"word": "ayam",
"meanings": [
"this"
]
},
{
"word": "abhirebhati",
"meanings": [
"barking"
]
},
{
"word": "abhīruvat",
"meanings": [
"without fear."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>Just see, O Bhīma, how the she-jackel cries at the rising sun and vomits fire and how the dog barks at me fearlessly.</b>",
"purport": [
"These are some bad omens indicating something undesirable in the near future."
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 1,
"chapter": 14,
"verse": 13,
"reference": "SB 1.14.13",
"devanagari": "शस्ताः कुर्वन्ति मां सव्यं दक्षिणं पशवो ऽपरे\nवाहांश्च पुरुषव्याघ्र लक्षये रुदतो मम",
"transliteration": "śastāḥ kurvanti māṁ savyaṁ\ndakṣiṇaṁ paśavo 'pare\nvāhāṁś ca puruṣa-vyāghra\nlakṣaye rudato mama",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "śastāḥ",
"meanings": [
"useful animals like the cow"
]
},
{
"word": "kurvanti",
"meanings": [
"are keeping"
]
},
{
"word": "mām",
"meanings": [
"me"
]
},
{
"word": "savyam",
"meanings": [
"on the left"
]
},
{
"word": "dakṣiṇam",
"meanings": [
"circumambulating"
]
},
{
"word": "paśavaḥ apare",
"meanings": [
"other lower animals like asses"
]
},
{
"word": "vāhān",
"meanings": [
"the horses (carriers)"
]
},
{
"word": "ca",
"meanings": [
"also"
]
},
{
"word": "puruṣa-vyāghra",
"meanings": [
"O tiger among men"
]
},
{
"word": "lakṣaye",
"meanings": [
"are seen"
]
},
{
"word": "rudataḥ",
"meanings": [
"weeping"
]
},
{
"word": "mama",
"meanings": [
"of mine."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>O Bhīmasena, tiger amongst men, now useful animals like cows are passing me on my left side, and lower animals like the asses are circumambulating me. My horses appear to weep upon seeing me.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 1,
"chapter": 14,
"verse": 14,
"reference": "SB 1.14.14",
"devanagari": "मृत्युदूतः कपोतो ऽयम् उलूकः कम्पयन्मनः\nप्रत्युलूकश्च कुह्वानैर्विश्वम्वै शून्यम् इच्छतः",
"transliteration": "mṛtyu-dūtaḥ kapoto 'yam\nulūkaḥ kampayan manaḥ\npratyulūkaś ca kuhvānair\nviśvam vai śūnyam icchataḥ",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "mṛtyu",
"meanings": [
"death"
]
},
{
"word": "dūtaḥ",
"meanings": [
"messenger of"
]
},
{
"word": "kapotaḥ",
"meanings": [
"pigeon"
]
},
{
"word": "ayam",
"meanings": [
"this"
]
},
{
"word": "ulūkaḥ",
"meanings": [
"owl"
]
},
{
"word": "kampayan",
"meanings": [
"trembling"
]
},
{
"word": "manaḥ",
"meanings": [
"mind"
]
},
{
"word": "pratyulūkaḥ",
"meanings": [
"the rivals of owls (crows)"
]
},
{
"word": "ca",
"meanings": [
"and"
]
},
{
"word": "kuhvānaiḥ",
"meanings": [
"shrieking scream"
]
},
{
"word": "viśvam",
"meanings": [
"the cosmos"
]
},
{
"word": "vai",
"meanings": [
"either"
]
},
{
"word": "śūnyam",
"meanings": [
"void"
]
},
{
"word": "icchataḥ",
"meanings": [
"wishing."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>Just see! This pigeon is like a messenger of death. The shrieks of the owls and their rival crows make my heart tremble. It appears that they want to make a void of the whole universe.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 1,
"chapter": 14,
"verse": 15,
"reference": "SB 1.14.15",
"devanagari": "धूम्रा दिशः परिधयः कम्पते भूः सहाद्रिभिः\nनिर्घातश्च महांस्तात साकं च स्तनयित्नुभिः",
"transliteration": "dhūmrā diśaḥ paridhayaḥ\nkampate bhūḥ sahādribhiḥ\nnirghātaś ca mahāṁs tāta\nsākaṁ ca stanayitnubhiḥ",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "dhūmrāḥ",
"meanings": [
"smoky"
]
},
{
"word": "diśaḥ",
"meanings": [
"all directions"
]
},
{
"word": "paridhayaḥ",
"meanings": [
"encirclement"
]
},
{
"word": "kampate",
"meanings": [
"throbbing"
]
},
{
"word": "bhūḥ",
"meanings": [
"the earth"
]
},
{
"word": "sahādribhiḥ",
"meanings": [
"along with the hills and mountains"
]
},
{
"word": "nirghātaś",
"meanings": [
"bolt from the blue"
]
},
{
"word": "ca",
"meanings": [
"also"
]
},
{
"word": "mahān",
"meanings": [
"very great"
]
},
{
"word": "tāta",
"meanings": [
"that"
]
},
{
"word": "sākam",
"meanings": [
"lightning"
]
},
{
"word": "ca",
"meanings": [
"also"
]
},
{
"word": "stanayitnubhiḥ",
"meanings": [
"thundering sound without any cloud."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>Just see how the smoke encircles the sky. It appears that the earth and mountains are throbbing. Just hear the cloudless thunder and see the bolts from the blue.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 1,
"chapter": 14,
"verse": 16,
"reference": "SB 1.14.16",
"devanagari": "वायुर्वाति खरस्पर्शो रजसा विसृजंस्तमः\nअसृग्वर्षन्ति जलदा बीभत्सम् इव सर्वतः",
"transliteration": "vāyur vāti khara-sparśo\nrajasā visṛjaṁs tamaḥ\nasṛg varṣanti jaladā\nbībhatsam iva sarvataḥ",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "vāyuḥ",
"meanings": [
"wind"
]
},
{
"word": "vāti",
"meanings": [
"blowing"
]
},
{
"word": "khara-sparśaḥ",
"meanings": [
"sharply"
]
},
{
"word": "rajasā",
"meanings": [
"by the dust"
]
},
{
"word": "visṛjan",
"meanings": [
"creating"
]
},
{
"word": "tamaḥ",
"meanings": [
"darkness"
]
},
{
"word": "asṛk",
"meanings": [
"blood"
]
},
{
"word": "varṣanti",
"meanings": [
"is raining"
]
},
{
"word": "jaladāḥ",
"meanings": [
"the cloud"
]
},
{
"word": "bībhatsam",
"meanings": [
"disastrous"
]
},
{
"word": "iva",
"meanings": [
"like"
]
},
{
"word": "sarvataḥ",
"meanings": [
"everywhere."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>The wind blows violently, blasting dust everywhere and creating darkness. Clouds are raining everywhere with bloody disasters.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 1,
"chapter": 14,
"verse": 17,
"reference": "SB 1.14.17",
"devanagari": "सूर्यं हतप्रभं पश्य ग्रहमर्दं मिथो दिवि\nससंकुलैर्भूतगणैर्ज्वलिते इव रोदसी",
"transliteration": "sūryaṁ hata-prabhaṁ paśya\ngraha-mardaṁ mitho divi\nsasaṁkulair bhūta-gaṇair\njvalite iva rodasī",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "sūryam",
"meanings": [
"the sun"
]
},
{
"word": "hata-prabham",
"meanings": [
"its rays declining"
]
},
{
"word": "paśya",
"meanings": [
"just see"
]
},
{
"word": "graha-mardam",
"meanings": [
"clashes of the stars"
]
},
{
"word": "mithaḥ",
"meanings": [
"among one another"
]
},
{
"word": "divi",
"meanings": [
"in the sky"
]
},
{
"word": "sasaṁkulaiḥ",
"meanings": [
"being mixed with"
]
},
{
"word": "bhūta-gaṇaiḥ",
"meanings": [
"by the living entities"
]
},
{
"word": "jvalite",
"meanings": [
"being ignited"
]
},
{
"word": "iva",
"meanings": [
"as if"
]
},
{
"word": "rodasī",
"meanings": [
"crying."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>The rays of the sun are declining, and the stars appear to be fighting amongst themselves. Confused living entities appear to be ablaze and weeping.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 1,
"chapter": 14,
"verse": 18,
"reference": "SB 1.14.18",
"devanagari": "नद्यो नदाश्च क्षुभिताः सरांसि च मनांसि च\nन ज्वलत्य् अग्निर् आज्येन कालो ऽयं किं विधास्यति",
"transliteration": "nadyo nadāś ca kṣubhitāḥ\nsarāṁsi ca manāṁsi ca\nna jvalaty agnir ājyena\nkālo 'yaṁ kiṁ vidhāsyati",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "nadyaḥ",
"meanings": [
"rivers"
]
},
{
"word": "nadāḥ ca",
"meanings": [
"and the tributaries"
]
},
{
"word": "kṣubhitāḥ",
"meanings": [
"all perturbed"
]
},
{
"word": "sarāṁsi",
"meanings": [
"reservoirs of water"
]
},
{
"word": "ca",
"meanings": [
"and"
]
},
{
"word": "manāṁsi",
"meanings": [
"the mind"
]
},
{
"word": "ca",
"meanings": [
"also"
]
},
{
"word": "na",
"meanings": [
"does not"
]
},
{
"word": "jvalati",
"meanings": [
"ignite"
]
},
{
"word": "agniḥ",
"meanings": [
"fire"
]
},
{
"word": "ājyena",
"meanings": [
"with the help of butter"
]
},
{
"word": "kālaḥ",
"meanings": [
"the time"
]
},
{
"word": "ayam",
"meanings": [
"extraordinary it is"
]
},
{
"word": "kim",
"meanings": [
"what"
]
},
{
"word": "vidhāsyati",
"meanings": [
"going to happen."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>Rivers, tributaries, ponds, reservoirs and the mind are all perturbed. Butter no longer ignites fire. What is this extraordinary time? What is going to happen?</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 1,
"chapter": 14,
"verse": 19,
"reference": "SB 1.14.19",
"devanagari": "न पिबन्ति स्तनं वत्सा न दुह्यन्ति च मातरः\nरुदन्त्य् अश्रुमुखा गावो न हृष्यन्त्य् ऋषभा व्रजे",
"transliteration": "na pibanti stanaṁ vatsā\nna duhyanti ca mātaraḥ\nrudanty aśru-mukhā gāvo\nna hṛṣyanty ṛṣabhā vraje",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "na",
"meanings": [
"does not"
]
},
{
"word": "pibanti",
"meanings": [
"suck"
]
},
{
"word": "stanam",
"meanings": [
"breast"
]
},
{
"word": "vatsāḥ",
"meanings": [
"the calf"
]
},
{
"word": "na",
"meanings": [
"does not"
]
},
{
"word": "duhyanti",
"meanings": [
"allow milking"
]
},
{
"word": "ca",
"meanings": [
"also"
]
},
{
"word": "mātaraḥ",
"meanings": [
"the cow"
]
},
{
"word": "rudanti",
"meanings": [
"crying"
]
},
{
"word": "aśru-mukhāḥ",
"meanings": [
"with a fearful face"
]
},
{
"word": "gāvaḥ",
"meanings": [
"the cow"
]
},
{
"word": "na",
"meanings": [
"does not"
]
},
{
"word": "hṛṣyanti",
"meanings": [
"take pleasure"
]
},
{
"word": "ṛṣabhāḥ",
"meanings": [
"the bull"
]
},
{
"word": "vraje",
"meanings": [
"in the pasturing ground."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>The calves do not suck the teats of the cows, nor do the cows give milk. They are standing, crying, tears in their eyes, and the bulls take no pleasure in the pasturing grounds.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 1,
"chapter": 14,
"verse": 20,
"reference": "SB 1.14.20",
"devanagari": "दैवतानि रुदन्तीव स्विद्यन्ति ह्य् उच्चलन्ति च\nइमे जनपदा ग्रामाः पुरोद्यानाकराश्रमाः\nभ्रष्टश्रियो निरानन्दाः किम् अघं दर्शयन्ति नः",
"transliteration": "daivatāni rudantīva\nsvidyanti hy uccalanti ca\nime jana-padā grāmāḥ\npurodyānākarāśramāḥ\nbhraṣṭa-śriyo nirānandāḥ\nkim aghaṁ darśayanti naḥ",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "daivatāni",
"meanings": [
"the Deities in the temples"
]
},
{
"word": "rudanti",
"meanings": [
"seem to be crying"
]
},
{
"word": "iva",
"meanings": [
"like that"
]
},
{
"word": "svidyanti",
"meanings": [
"lamenting"
]
},
{
"word": "hi",
"meanings": [
"certainly"
]
},
{
"word": "uccalanti",
"meanings": [
"as if going out"
]
},
{
"word": "ca",
"meanings": [
"also"
]
},
{
"word": "ime",
"meanings": [
"this"
]
},
{
"word": "jana-padāḥ",
"meanings": [
"city"
]
},
{
"word": "grāmāḥ",
"meanings": [
"villages"
]
},
{
"word": "pura",
"meanings": [
"towns"
]
},
{
"word": "udyāna",
"meanings": [
"gardens"
]
},
{
"word": "ākara",
"meanings": [
"mines"
]
},
{
"word": "āśramāḥ",
"meanings": [
"hermitages, etc."
]
},
{
"word": "bhraṣṭa",
"meanings": [
"devoid of"
]
},
{
"word": "śriyaḥ",
"meanings": [
"beauties"
]
},
{
"word": "nirānandāḥ",
"meanings": [
"bereft of all happiness"
]
},
{
"word": "kim",
"meanings": [
"what sort of"
]
},
{
"word": "agham",
"meanings": [
"calamities"
]
},
{
"word": "darśayanti",
"meanings": [
"shall manifest"
]
},
{
"word": "naḥ",
"meanings": [
"to us."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>The Deities seem to be crying in the temple, lamenting and perspiring. They seem about to leave. All the cities, villages, towns, gardens, mines and hermitages are now devoid of beauty and bereft of all happiness. I do not know what sort of calamities are now awaiting us.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 1,
"chapter": 14,
"verse": 21,
"reference": "SB 1.14.21",
"devanagari": "मन्य एतैर्महोत्पातैर्नूनं भगवतः पदैः\nअनन्यपुरुषश्रीभिर्हीना भूर्हतसौभगा",
"transliteration": "manya etair mahotpātair\nnūnaṁ bhagavataḥ padaiḥ\nananya-puruṣa-śrībhir\nhīnā bhūr hata-saubhagā",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "manye",
"meanings": [
"you may take it for granted"
]
},
{
"word": "etaiḥ",
"meanings": [
"by all these"
]
},
{
"word": "mahā",
"meanings": [
"great"
]
},
{
"word": "utpātaiḥ",
"meanings": [
"upsurges"
]
},
{
"word": "nūnam",
"meanings": [
"for want of"
]
},
{
"word": "bhagavataḥ",
"meanings": [
"of the Personality of Godhead"
]
},
{
"word": "padaiḥ",
"meanings": [
"the marks on the sole of the foot"
]
},
{
"word": "ananya",
"meanings": [
"extraordinary"
]
},
{
"word": "puruṣa",
"meanings": [
"of the Supreme Personality"
]
},
{
"word": "śrībhiḥ",
"meanings": [
"by the auspicious signs"
]
},
{
"word": "hīnā",
"meanings": [
"dispossessed"
]
},
{
"word": "bhūḥ",
"meanings": [
"the earth"
]
},
{
"word": "hata-saubhagā",
"meanings": [
"without the fortune."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>I think that all these earthly disturbances preclude some greater loss to the good fortune of the world. The world was fortunate to have been marked with the footprints of the lotus feet of the Lord. These signs indicate that this will no longer be.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 1,
"chapter": 14,
"verse": 22,
"reference": "SB 1.14.22",
"devanagari": "इति चिन्तयतस्तस्य दृष्टारिष्टेन चेतसा\nराज्ञः प्रत्यागमद्ब्रह्मन्यदुपुर्याः कपिध्वजः",
"transliteration": "iti cintayatas tasya\ndṛṣṭāriṣṭena cetasā\nrājñaḥ pratyāgamad brahman\nyadu-puryāḥ kapi-dhvajaḥ",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "iti",
"meanings": [
"thus"
]
},
{
"word": "cintayataḥ",
"meanings": [
"while thinking to himself"
]
},
{
"word": "tasya",
"meanings": [
"of him"
]
},
{
"word": "dṛṣṭā",
"meanings": [
"by observing"
]
},
{
"word": "ariṣṭena",
"meanings": [
"bad omens"
]
},
{
"word": "cetasā",
"meanings": [
"by the mind"
]
},
{
"word": "rājñaḥ",
"meanings": [
"of the king"
]
},
{
"word": "prati",
"meanings": [
"back"
]
},
{
"word": "āgamat",
"meanings": [
"came"
]
},
{
"word": "brahman",
"meanings": [
"O brāhmaṇas"
]
},
{
"word": "yadu-puryāḥ",
"meanings": [
"from the kingdom of the Yadus"
]
},
{
"word": "kapi-dhvajaḥ",
"meanings": [
"Arjuna."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>O Brāhmaṇa Śaunaka, while Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira, observing the inauspicious signs on the earth at that time, was thus thinking to himself, Arjuna came back from the city of the Yadus [Dvārakā].</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 1,
"chapter": 14,
"verse": 23,
"reference": "SB 1.14.23",
"devanagari": "तं पादयोर्निपतितम् अयथापूर्वम् आतुरम्\nअधोवदनम् अब्बिन्दून्सृजन्तं नयनाब्जयोः",
"transliteration": "taṁ pādayor nipatitam\nayathā-pūrvam āturam\nadho-vadanam ab-bindūn\nsṛjantaṁ nayanābjayoḥ",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "tam",
"meanings": [
"him (Arjuna)"
]
},
{
"word": "pādayoḥ",
"meanings": [
"at the feet"
]
},
{
"word": "nipatitam",
"meanings": [
"bowing down"
]
},
{
"word": "ayathā-pūrvam",
"meanings": [
"unprecedented"
]
},
{
"word": "āturam",
"meanings": [
"dejected"
]
},
{
"word": "adhovadanam",
"meanings": [
"downward face"
]
},
{
"word": "abbindūn",
"meanings": [
"drops of water"
]
},
{
"word": "sṛjantam",
"meanings": [
"creating"
]
},
{
"word": "nayana-abjayoḥ",
"meanings": [
"from the lotuslike eyes."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>When he bowed at his feet, the King saw that his dejection was unprecedented. His head was down, and tears glided from his lotus eyes.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 1,
"chapter": 14,
"verse": 24,
"reference": "SB 1.14.24",
"devanagari": "विलोक्योद्विग्नहृदयो विच्छायम् अनुजं नृपः\nपृच्छति स्म सुहृन्मध्ये संस्मरन्नारदेरितम्",
"transliteration": "vilokyodvigna-hṛdayo\nvicchāyam anujaṁ nṛpaḥ\npṛcchati sma suhṛn madhye\nsaṁsmaran nāraderitam",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "vilokya",
"meanings": [
"by seeing"
]
},
{
"word": "udvigna",
"meanings": [
"anxious"
]
},
{
"word": "hṛdayaḥ",
"meanings": [
"heart"
]
},
{
"word": "vicchāyam",
"meanings": [
"pale appearance"
]
},
{
"word": "anujam",
"meanings": [
"Arjuna"
]
},
{
"word": "nṛpaḥ",
"meanings": [
"the King"
]
},
{
"word": "pṛcchati",
"meanings": [
"asked"
]
},
{
"word": "sma",
"meanings": [
"in the past"
]
},
{
"word": "suhṛt",
"meanings": [
"friends"
]
},
{
"word": "madhye",
"meanings": [
"amongst"
]
},
{
"word": "saṁsmaran",
"meanings": [
"remembering"
]
},
{
"word": "nārada",
"meanings": [
"Sage Nārada"
]
},
{
"word": "iritam",
"meanings": [
"indicated by."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>Seeing Arjuna pale due to heartfelt anxieties, the King, remembering the indications of the sage Nārada, questioned him in the midst of friends.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 1,
"chapter": 14,
"verse": 25,
"reference": "SB 1.14.25",
"devanagari": "युधिष्ठिर उवाच\nकच्चिद् आनर्तपुर्यां नः स्वजनाः सुखम् आसते\nमधुभोजदशार्हार्ह सात्वतान्धकवृष्णयः",
"transliteration": "yudhiṣṭhira uvāca\nkaccid ānartapuryāṁ naḥ\nsva-janāḥ sukham āsate\nmadhu-bhoja-daśārhārha-\nsātvatāndhaka-vṛṣṇayaḥ",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "yudhiṣṭhiraḥ uvāca",
"meanings": [
"Yudhiṣṭhira said"
]
},
{
"word": "kaccit",
"meanings": [
"whether"
]
},
{
"word": "ānartapuryām",
"meanings": [
"of Dvārakā"
]
},
{
"word": "naḥ",
"meanings": [
"our"
]
},
{
"word": "sva-janāḥ",
"meanings": [
"relatives"
]
},
{
"word": "sukham",
"meanings": [
"happily"
]
},
{
"word": "āsate",
"meanings": [
"are passing their days"
]
},
{
"word": "madhu",
"meanings": [
"Madhu"
]
},
{
"word": "bhoja",
"meanings": [
"Bhoja"
]
},
{
"word": "daśārha",
"meanings": [
"Daśārha"
]
},
{
"word": "ārhā",
"meanings": [
"Ārhā"
]
},
{
"word": "sātvata",
"meanings": [
"Sātvata"
]
},
{
"word": "andhaka",
"meanings": [
"Andhaka"
]
},
{
"word": "vṛṣṇayaḥ",
"meanings": [
"of the family of Vṛṣṇi."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira said: </b><b>My dear brother, please tell me whether our friends and relatives, such as Madhu, Bhoja, Daśārha, Ārhā, Sātvata, Andhaka and the members of the Yadu family, are all passing their days in happiness.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 1,
"chapter": 14,
"verse": 26,
"reference": "SB 1.14.26",
"devanagari": "शूरो मातामहः कच्चित्स्वस्त्य् आस्ते वाथ मारिषः\nमातुलः सानुजः कच्चित्कुशल्य् आनकदुन्दुभिः",
"transliteration": "śūro mātāmahaḥ kaccit\nsvasty āste vātha māriṣaḥ\nmātulaḥ sānujaḥ kaccit\nkuśaly ānaka-dundubhiḥ",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "śūraḥ",
"meanings": [
"Śūrasena"
]
},
{
"word": "mātāmahaḥ",
"meanings": [
"maternal grandfather"
]
},
{
"word": "kaccit",
"meanings": [
"whether"
]
},
{
"word": "svasti",
"meanings": [
"all good"
]
},
{
"word": "āste",
"meanings": [
"passing his days"
]
},
{
"word": "vā",
"meanings": [
"or"
]
},
{
"word": "atha",
"meanings": [
"therefore"
]
},
{
"word": "māriṣaḥ",
"meanings": [
"respectful"
]
},
{
"word": "mātulaḥ",
"meanings": [
"maternal uncle"
]
},
{
"word": "sa-anujaḥ",
"meanings": [
"with his younger brothers"
]
},
{
"word": "kaccit",
"meanings": [
"whether"
]
},
{
"word": "kuśalī",
"meanings": [
"all well"
]
},
{
"word": "ānaka-dundubhiḥ",
"meanings": [
"Vasudeva."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>Is my respectable grandfather Śūrasena in a happy mood? And are my maternal uncle and his younger brothers all doing well?</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 1,
"chapter": 14,
"verse": 27,
"reference": "SB 1.14.27",
"devanagari": "सप्त स्वसारस्तत्पत्न्यो मातुलान्यः सहात्मजाः\nआसते सस्नुषाः क्षेमं देवकीप्रमुखाः स्वयम्",
"transliteration": "sapta sva-sāras tat-patnyo\nmātulānyaḥ sahātmajāḥ\nāsate sasnuṣāḥ kṣemaṁ\ndevakī-pramukhāḥ svayam",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "sapta",
"meanings": [
"seven"
]
},
{
"word": "sva-sāraḥ",
"meanings": [
"own sisters"
]
},
{
"word": "tat-patnyaḥ",
"meanings": [
"his wives"
]
},
{
"word": "mātulānyaḥ",
"meanings": [
"maternal aunts"
]
},
{
"word": "saha",
"meanings": [
"along with"
]
},
{
"word": "ātmajāḥ",
"meanings": [
"sons and grandsons"
]
},
{
"word": "āsate",
"meanings": [
"are all"
]
},
{
"word": "sasnuṣāḥ",
"meanings": [
"with their daughters-in-law"
]
},
{
"word": "kṣemam",
"meanings": [
"happiness"
]
},
{
"word": "devakī",
"meanings": [
"Devakī"
]
},
{
"word": "pramukhāḥ",
"meanings": [
"headed by"
]
},
{
"word": "svayam",
"meanings": [
"personally."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>His seven wives, headed by Devakī, are all sisters. Are they and their sons and daughters-in-law all happy?</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 1,
"chapter": 14,
"verse": 28,
"reference": "SB 1.14.28-29",
"devanagari": "कच्चिद्राजा ऽऽहुको जीवत्य् असत्पुत्रो ऽस्य चानुजः\nहृदीकः ससुतो ऽक्रूरो जयन्तगदसारणाः\nआसते कुशलं कच्चिद्ये च शत्रुजिदादयः\nकच्चिद् आस्ते सुखं रामो भगवान्सात्वतां प्रभुः",
"transliteration": "kaccid rājā ''huko jīvaty\nasat-putro 'sya cānujaḥ\nhṛdīkaḥ sasuto 'krūro\njayanta-gada-sāraṇāḥ\nāsate kuśalaṁ kaccid-\nye ca śatrujid-ādayaḥ\nkaccid āste sukhaṁ rāmo\nbhagavān sātvatāṁ prabhuḥ",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "kaccit",
"meanings": [
"whether"
]
},
{
"word": "rājā",
"meanings": [
"the King"
]
},
{
"word": "āhukaḥ",
"meanings": [
"another name of Ugrasena"
]
},
{
"word": "jīvati",
"meanings": [
"still living"
]
},
{
"word": "asat",
"meanings": [
"mischievous"
]
},
{
"word": "putraḥ",
"meanings": [
"son"
]
},
{
"word": "asya",
"meanings": [
"his"
]
},
{
"word": "ca",
"meanings": [
"also"
]
},
{
"word": "anujaḥ",
"meanings": [
"younger brother"
]
},
{
"word": "hṛdīkaḥ",
"meanings": [
"Hṛdīka"
]
},
{
"word": "sa-sutaḥ",
"meanings": [
"along with sons such as"
]
},
{
"word": "akrūraḥ",
"meanings": [
"Akrūra"
]
},
{
"word": "jayanta",
"meanings": [
"Jayanta"
]
},
{
"word": "gada",
"meanings": [
"Gada"
]
},
{
"word": "sāraṇāḥ",
"meanings": [
"Sāraṇā"
]
},
{
"word": "āsate",
"meanings": [
"are they all"
]
},
{
"word": "kuśalam",
"meanings": [
"in happiness"
]
},
{
"word": "kaccit",
"meanings": [
"whether"
]
},
{
"word": "ye",
"meanings": [
"they"
]
},
{
"word": "ca",
"meanings": [
"also"
]
},
{
"word": "śatrujit",
"meanings": [
"Śatrujit"
]
},
{
"word": "ādayaḥ",
"meanings": [
"headed by"
]
},
{
"word": "kaccit",
"meanings": [
"whether"
]
},
{
"word": "āste",
"meanings": [
"are they"
]
},
{
"word": "sukham",
"meanings": [
"all right"
]
},
{
"word": "rāmaḥ",
"meanings": [
"Balarāma"
]
},
{
"word": "bhagavān",
"meanings": [
"the Personality of Godhead"
]
},
{
"word": "sātvatām",
"meanings": [
"of the devotees"
]
},
{
"word": "prabhuḥ",
"meanings": [
"protector."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>Ugrasena’s sons, Kaṁsa and his younger brother Devaka, are still living. Is Ugrasena happy? Are Hṛdīka and sons, Kṛtavarmā, Akrūra, Jayanta, Gada, Sāraṇā and Śatrujit, all happy? How is Balarāma, the Personality of Godhead and the protector of devotees?</b>",
"purport": [
"Hastināpura, the capital of the Pāṇḍavas, was situated somewhere near present New Delhi, and the kingdom of Ugrasena was situated in Mathurā. While returning to Delhi from Dvārakā, Arjuna must have visited the city of Mathurā, and therefore the inquiry about the King of Mathurā is valid. Amongst various names of the relatives, the name of Rāma or Balarāma, eldest brother of Lord Kṛṣṇa, is added with the word Personality of Godhead because Lord Balarāma is the immediate expansion of <i>Viṣṇu-tattva</i> as <i>prakāśa-vigraha</i> of Lord Kṛṣṇa. The Supreme Lord, although one without a second, expands Himself as many other living beings. The <i>Viṣṇu-tattva</i> living beings are expansions of the Supreme Lord, and all of them are qualitatively and quantitatively equal with the Lord. But expansions of the <i>jīva-śakti</i>, the category of the ordinary living beings, are not at all equal with the Lord. One who considers the <i>jīva-śakti</i> and the <i>Viṣṇu-tattva</i> to be on an equal level is considered a condemned soul of the world. Śrī Rāma or Balarāma is the protector of the devotees of the Lord. Baladeva acts as the spiritual master of all devotees, and by His causeless mercy the fallen souls are delivered. Śrī Baladeva appeared as Śrī Nityānanda Prabhu during the advent of Lord Caitanya, and the great Lord Nityānanda Prabhu exhibited His causeless mercy by delivering a pair of extremely fallen souls, namely Jagai and Madhai. Therefore it is particularly mentioned herein that Balarāma is the protector of the devotees of the Lord. By His divine grace only one can approach the Supreme Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, and thus Śrī Balarāma is the mercy incarnation of the Lord, manifested as the spiritual master, the savior of the pure devotees."
],
"verse_end": 29
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 1,
"chapter": 14,
"verse": 30,
"reference": "SB 1.14.30",
"devanagari": "प्रद्युम्नः सर्ववृष्णीनां सुखम् आस्ते महारथः\nगम्भीररयो ऽनिरुद्धो वर्धते भगवान् उत",
"transliteration": "pradyumnaḥ sarva-vṛṣṇīnāṁ\nsukham āste mahā-rathaḥ\ngambhīra-rayo 'niruddho\nvardhate bhagavān uta",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "pradyumnaḥ",
"meanings": [
"Pradyumna (a son of Lord Kṛṣṇa)"
]
},
{
"word": "sarva",
"meanings": [
"all"
]
},
{
"word": "vṛṣṇīnām",
"meanings": [
"of the members of the Vṛṣṇi family"
]
},
{
"word": "sukham",
"meanings": [
"happiness"
]
},
{
"word": "āste",
"meanings": [
"are in"
]
},
{
"word": "mahā-rathaḥ",
"meanings": [
"the great general"
]
},
{
"word": "gambhīra",
"meanings": [
"deeply"
]
},
{
"word": "rayaḥ",
"meanings": [
"dexterity"
]
},
{
"word": "aniruddhaḥ",
"meanings": [
"Aniruddha (another grandson of Lord Kṛṣṇa)"
]
},
{
"word": "vardhate",
"meanings": [
"flourishing"
]
},
{
"word": "bhagavān",
"meanings": [
"the Personality of Godhead"
]
},
{
"word": "uta",
"meanings": [
"must."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>How is Pradyumna, the great general of the Vṛṣṇi family? Is He happy? And is Aniruddha, the plenary expansion of the Personality of Godhead, faring well?</b>",
"purport": [
"Pradyumna and Aniruddha are also expansions of the Personality of Godhead, and thus They are also <i>Viṣṇu-tattva.</i> At Dvārakā Lord Vāsudeva is engaged in His transcendental pastimes along with His plenary expansions, namely Saṅkarṣaṇa, Pradyumna and Aniruddha, and therefore each and every one of Them can be addressed as the Personality of Godhead, as it is mentioned in connection with the name Aniruddha."
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 1,
"chapter": 14,
"verse": 31,
"reference": "SB 1.14.31",
"devanagari": "सुषेणश्चारुदेष्णश्च साम्बो जाम्बवतीसुतः\nअन्ये च कार्ष्णिप्रवराः सपुत्रा ऋषभादयः",
"transliteration": "suṣeṇaś cārudeṣṇaś ca\nsāmbo jāmbavatī-sutaḥ\nanye ca kārṣṇi-pravarāḥ\nsa-putrā ṛṣabhādayaḥ",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "suṣeṇaḥ",
"meanings": [
"Suṣeṇa"
]
},
{
"word": "cārudeṣṇaḥ",
"meanings": [
"Cārudeṣṇa"
]
},
{
"word": "ca",
"meanings": [
"and"
]
},
{
"word": "sāmbaḥ",
"meanings": [
"Sāmba"
]
},
{
"word": "jāmbavatī-sutaḥ",
"meanings": [
"the son of Jāmbavatī"
]
},
{
"word": "anye",
"meanings": [
"others"
]
},
{
"word": "ca",
"meanings": [
"also"
]
},
{
"word": "kārṣṇi",
"meanings": [
"the sons of Lord Kṛṣṇa"
]
},
{
"word": "pravarāḥ",
"meanings": [
"all chieftains"
]
},
{
"word": "sa-putrāḥ",
"meanings": [
"along with their sons"
]
},
{
"word": "ṛṣabha",
"meanings": [
"Ṛṣabha"
]
},
{
"word": "ādayaḥ",
"meanings": [
"etc."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>Are all the chieftain sons of Lord Kṛṣṇa, such as Suṣeṇa, Cārudeṣṇa, Sāmba the son of Jāmbavatī, Ṛṣabha and all others, along with their sons, all doing well?</b>",
"purport": [
"As already mentioned, Lord Kṛṣṇa had married 16,108 wives, and each of them had ten sons. Therefore 16,108 x 10 = 161,080 sons. They all grew up, and each of them had as many sons as their father, and the whole aggregate was something near 1,610,800 family members of the Lord. The Lord is the father of all living beings, who are countless in number; therefore only a few of them are called to associate with the Lord in His transcendental pastimes as the Lord of Dvārakā on this earth. It is not astonishing if the Lord maintained a visible family consisting of so many members. It is better to refrain from comparing the Lord’s position with ours, and it becomes a simple truth as soon as we understand at least a partial calculation of the Lord’s transcendental position. King Yudhiṣṭhira, while inquiring about the Lord’s sons and grandsons at Dvārakā, mentioned only the chieftains amongst them, otherwise it was impossible for him to remember all the names of the Lord’s family members."
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 1,
"chapter": 14,
"verse": 32,
"reference": "SB 1.14.32-33",
"devanagari": "तथैवानुचराः शौरेः श्रुतदेवोद्धवादयः\nसुनन्दनन्दशीर्षण्या ये चान्ये सात्वतर्षभाः\nअपि स्वस्त्य् आसते सर्वे रामकृष्णभुजाश्रयाः\nअपि स्मरन्ति कुशलम् अस्माकं बद्धसौहृदाः",
"transliteration": "tathaivānucarāḥ śaureḥ\nśrutadevoddhavādayaḥ\nsunanda-nanda-śīrṣaṇyā\nye cānye sātvatarṣabhāḥ\napi svasty āsate sarve\nrāma-kṛṣṇa-bhujāśrayāḥ\napi smaranti kuśalam\nasmākaṁ baddha-sauhṛdāḥ",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "tathā eva",
"meanings": [
"similarly"
]
},
{
"word": "anucarāḥ",
"meanings": [
"constant companions"
]
},
{
"word": "śaureḥ",
"meanings": [
"of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa such as"
]
},
{
"word": "śrutadeva",
"meanings": [
"Śrutadeva"
]
},
{
"word": "uddhava-ādayaḥ",
"meanings": [
"Uddhava and others"
]
},
{
"word": "sunanda",
"meanings": [
"Sunanda"
]
},
{
"word": "nanda",
"meanings": [
"Nanda"
]
},
{
"word": "śīrṣaṇyāḥ",
"meanings": [
"other leaders"
]
},
{
"word": "ye",
"meanings": [
"all of them"
]
},
{
"word": "ca",
"meanings": [
"and"
]
},
{
"word": "anye",
"meanings": [
"others"
]
},
{
"word": "sātvata",
"meanings": [
"liberated souls"
]
},
{
"word": "ṛṣabhāḥ",
"meanings": [
"the best men"
]
},
{
"word": "api",
"meanings": [
"if"
]
},
{
"word": "svasti",
"meanings": [
"doing well"
]
},
{
"word": "āsate",
"meanings": [
"are"
]
},
{
"word": "sarve",
"meanings": [
"all of them"
]
},
{
"word": "rāma",
"meanings": [
"Balarāma"
]
},
{
"word": "kṛṣṇa",
"meanings": [
"Lord Kṛṣṇa"
]
},
{
"word": "bhujāśrayāḥ",
"meanings": [
"under the protection of"
]
},
{
"word": "api",
"meanings": [
"if also"
]
},
{
"word": "smaranti",
"meanings": [
"do remember"
]
},
{
"word": "kuśalam",
"meanings": [
"welfare"
]
},
{
"word": "asmākam",
"meanings": [
"about ourselves"
]
},
{
"word": "baddha-sauhṛdāḥ",
"meanings": [
"bound by eternal friendship."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>Also, are Uddhava and others, Nanda, Sunanda and other leaders of liberated souls who are constant companions of the Lord, who are protected by Lord Balarāma and Kṛṣṇa, all doing well in their respective functions? Do they, who are all eternally bound in friendship with us, remember our welfare?</b>",
"purport": [
"The constant companions of Lord Kṛṣṇa, such as Uddhava, etc., are all liberated souls, and they had descended along with Lord Kṛṣṇa on this material world to fulfill the mission of the Lord. The Pāṇḍavas are also liberated souls who descended along with Lord Kṛṣṇa to serve Him in His transcendental pastimes on this earth. As stated in the <i>Bhagavad-gītā</i> (Bg. 4.5), the Lord and His eternal associates, who are also liberated souls like the Lord, come down on this earth at certain intervals. The Lord remembers them all, but His associates, although liberated souls, forget due to their being <i>tatasthā-śakti,</i> or marginal potency of the Lord. That is the difference between the <i>Viṣṇu-tattva</i> and <i>jīva-tattvas.</i> The <i>jīva-tattvas</i> are infinitesimal potential particles of the Lord, and therefore they require the protection of the Lord at all times. And to the eternal servitors of the Lord, the Lord is pleased to give all protection at all times. The liberated souls never, therefore, think themselves as free as the Lord or as powerful as the Lord, but they always seek the protection of the Lord in all circumstances, both in the material world and in the spiritual world. This dependence of the liberated soul is constitutional, just as sparks of a fire can exhibit the glow of fire along with the fire and not independently. Independently the glow of the sparks is extinguished, although the quality of fire or the glowing is there. Thus those who give up the protection of the Lord and become so-called lords themselves, out of spiritual ignorance, come back again to this material world, even after prolonged <i>tapasya</i> of the severest type. That is the verdict of all Vedic literature."
],
"verse_end": 33
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 1,
"chapter": 14,
"verse": 34,
"reference": "SB 1.14.34",
"devanagari": "भगवान् अपि गोविन्दो ब्रह्मण्यो भक्तवत्सलः\nकच्चित्पुरे सुधर्मायां सुखम् आस्ते सुहृद्वृतः",
"transliteration": "bhagavān api govindo\nbrahmaṇyo bhakta-vatsalaḥ\nkaccit pure sudharmāyāṁ\nsukham āste suhṛd-vṛtaḥ",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "bhagavān",
"meanings": [
"the Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa"
]
},
{
"word": "api",
"meanings": [
"also"
]
},
{
"word": "govindaḥ",
"meanings": [
"one who enlivens the cows and the senses"
]
},
{
"word": "brahmaṇyaḥ",
"meanings": [
"devoted to the devotees or the brāhmaṇas"
]
},
{
"word": "bhakta-vatsalaḥ",
"meanings": [
"affectionate to the devotees"
]
},
{
"word": "kaccit",
"meanings": [
"whether"
]
},
{
"word": "pure",
"meanings": [
"in Dvārakā Purī"
]
},
{
"word": "sudharmāyām",
"meanings": [
"pious assembly"
]
},
{
"word": "sukham",
"meanings": [
"happiness"
]
},
{
"word": "āste",
"meanings": [
"does enjoy"
]
},
{
"word": "suhṛt-vṛtaḥ",
"meanings": [
"surrounded by friends."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>Is Lord Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who gives pleasure to the cows, senses and the brāhmaṇas, who is very affectionate towards His devotees, enjoying the pious assembly at Dvārakā Purī surrounded by friends?</b>",
"purport": [
"Here in this particular verse the Lord is described as <i>Bhagavān, Govinda, Brahmaṇya</i> and <i>Bhaktavatsala</i>. He is <i>Bhagavān svayam</i>, or the original Supreme Personality of Godhead full with all opulences, all power, all knowledge, all beauty, all fame and all renunciation. No one is equal to or greater than Him. He is Govinda because He is the pleasure of the cows and the senses. Those who have purified their senses by devotional service of the Lord can render unto Him real service and thereby derive transcendental pleasure out of such purified senses. Only the impure conditioned living being cannot derive any pleasure from the senses, but being illusioned by false pleasures of the senses, he becomes servant of the senses. Therefore, we need His protection for our own interest. The Lord is the protector of cows and the brahminical culture. A society which is devoid of cow protection and brahminical culture is not under the direct protection of the Lord, just as the prisoners in the jails are not under the protection of the king but under the protection of a severe agent of the king. Without cow protection and cultivation of the brahminical qualities in human society, at least for a section of members of the society, no human civilization can prosper at any length. By brahminical culture or by developing the dormant qualities of goodness, namely truthfulness, equanimity, sense control, forbearance, simplicity, general knowledge, transcendental knowledge, and firm faith in the Vedic wisdom, one can become a <i>brāhmaṇa</i> and thus see the Lord as He is. And after surpassing the brahminical perfection, one has to become a devotee of the Lord so that His loving affection in the form of proprietor, master, friend, son and lover can be transcendentally achieved. The stage of a devotee, which attracts the transcendental affection of the Lord, does not develop unless one has developed the qualities of a <i>brāhmaṇa</i> as above mentioned. The Lord is inclined to a <i>brāhmaṇa</i> of quality and not of false prestige. Those who are less than a <i>brāhmaṇa</i> by qualification cannot establish any relation with the Lord, just as fire cannot be kindled from the raw earth unless there is wood, although there is a relation between wood and the earth. Since the Lord is all-perfect in Himself, there could not be any question of His welfare, and Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira refrained from asking this question. He simply inquired about His residential place, Dvārakā Purī, where pious men assemble. The Lord stays only where pious men assemble and takes pleasure in their glorifying the Supreme Truth. Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira was anxious to know about the pious men and their pious acts in the city of Dvārakā."
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 1,
"chapter": 14,
"verse": 35,
"reference": "SB 1.14.35-36",
"devanagari": "मंगलाय च लोकानां क्षेमाय च भवाय च\nआस्ते यदुकुलाम्भोधाव् आद्यो ऽनन्तसखः पुमान्\nयद्बाहुदण्डगुप्तायां स्वपुर्यां यदवो ऽर्चिताः\nक्रीडन्ति परमानन्दं महापौरुषिका इव",
"transliteration": "maṅgalāya ca lokānāṁ\nkṣemāya ca bhavāya ca\nāste yadu-kulāmbhodhāv\nādyo 'nanta-sakhaḥ pumān\nyad bāhu-daṇḍa-guptāyāṁ\nsva-puryāṁ yadavo 'rcitāḥ\nkrīḍanti paramānandaṁ\nmahā-pauruṣikā iva",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "maṅgalāya",
"meanings": [
"for all good"
]
},
{
"word": "ca",
"meanings": [
"also"
]
},
{
"word": "lokānām",
"meanings": [
"of all the planets"
]
},
{
"word": "kṣemāya",
"meanings": [
"for protection"
]
},
{
"word": "ca",
"meanings": [
"and"
]
},
{
"word": "bhavāya",
"meanings": [
"for elevation"
]
},
{
"word": "ca",
"meanings": [
"also"
]
},
{
"word": "āste",
"meanings": [
"is there"
]
},
{
"word": "yadu-kula-ambhodhau",
"meanings": [
"in the ocean of the Yadu dynasty"
]
},
{
"word": "ādyaḥ",
"meanings": [
"the original"
]
},
{
"word": "ananta-sakhaḥ",
"meanings": [
"in the company of Ananta (Balarāma)"
]
},
{
"word": "pumān",
"meanings": [
"the supreme enjoyer"
]
},
{
"word": "yat",
"meanings": [
"whose"
]
},
{
"word": "bāhu-daṇḍa guptāyām",
"meanings": [
"being protected by His arms"
]
},
{
"word": "sva-puryām",
"meanings": [
"in His own city"
]
},
{
"word": "yadavaḥ",
"meanings": [
"the members of the Yadu family"
]
},
{
"word": "arcitāḥ",
"meanings": [
"as they deserve"
]
},
{
"word": "krīḍanti",
"meanings": [
"are relishing"
]
},
{
"word": "paramānandam",
"meanings": [
"transcendental pleasure"
]
},
{
"word": "mahā-pauruṣikāḥ",
"meanings": [
"the residents of the spiritual sky"
]
},
{
"word": "iva",
"meanings": [
"like."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>The original Personality of Godhead, the enjoyer, and Balarāma, the primeval Lord Ananta, are staying in the ocean of the Yadu dynasty for the welfare, protection and general progress of the entire universe. And the members of the Yadu dynasty, being protected by the arms of the Lord, are enjoying life like the residents of the spiritual sky.</b>",
"purport": [
"As we have discussed many times, the Personality of Godhead Viṣṇu resides within each and every universe in two capacities, namely as the Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu and the Kṣīrodakaśāyī Viṣṇu. The Kṣīrodakaśāyī Viṣṇu has His own planet on the northern top of the universe, and there is a great ocean of milk where the Lord resides on the bed of the Ananta incarnation of Baladeva. Thus Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira has compared the Yadu dynasty to the ocean of milk and Śrī Balarāma to the Ananta where Lord Kṛṣṇa resides. He has compared the citizens of Dvārakā to the liberated inhabitants of the Vaikuṇṭhalokas. Beyond the material sky, further than we can see with our eyes and beyond the sevenfold coverings of the universe, there is the Causal Ocean in which all the universes are floating like footballs, and beyond the Causal Ocean there is an unlimited span of spiritual sky generally known as the effulgence of Brahman. Within this effulgence there are innumerable spiritual planets, and they are known as the Vaikuṇṭha planets. Each and every Vaikuṇṭha planet is many, many times bigger than the biggest universe within the material world, and in each of them there are innumerable prototypes of Viṣṇu inhabitants who look exactly like Lord Viṣṇu. These inhabitants are known as the Mahāpauruṣikas, or persons directly engaged in the service of the Lord. They are happy in those planets and are without any kind of misery, and they live perpetually in full youthfulness, enjoying life in full bliss and knowledge without fear of birth, death, old age or disease, and without the influence of <i>kāla,</i> eternal time. Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira has compared the inhabitants of Dvārakā to the Mahāpauruṣikas of Vaikuṇṭhaloka because they are so happy with the Lord. In the <i>Bhagavad-gītā</i> there are many references to the Vaikuṇṭhalokas, and they are mentioned there as <i>Mad-dhāma,</i> or the kingdom of the Lord."
],
"verse_end": 36
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 1,
"chapter": 14,
"verse": 37,
"reference": "SB 1.14.37",
"devanagari": "यत्पादशुश्रूषणमुख्यकर्मणा सत्यादयो द्व्यष्टसहस्रयोषितः\nनिर्जित्य संख्ये त्रिदशांस्तदाशिषो हरन्ति वज्रायुधवल्लभोचिताः",
"transliteration": "yat-pāda-śuśrūṣaṇa-mukhya-karmaṇā\nsatyādayo dvyaṣṭa-sahasra-yoṣitaḥ\nnirjitya saṅkhye tridaśāṁs tad-āśiṣo\nharanti vajrāyudha-vallabhocitāḥ",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "yat",
"meanings": [
"whose"
]
},
{
"word": "pāda",
"meanings": [
"feet"
]
},
{
"word": "śuśrūṣaṇa",
"meanings": [
"administration of comforts"
]
},
{
"word": "mukhya",
"meanings": [
"the most important"
]
},
{
"word": "karmaṇā",
"meanings": [
"by the acts of"
]
},
{
"word": "satya-ādayaḥ",
"meanings": [
"queens headed by Satyabhāmā"
]
},
{
"word": "dvyaṣṭa",
"meanings": [
"twice eight"
]
},
{
"word": "sahasra",
"meanings": [
"thousand"
]
},
{
"word": "yoṣitaḥ",
"meanings": [
"the fair sex"
]
},
{
"word": "nirjitya",
"meanings": [
"by subduing"
]
},
{
"word": "saṅkhye",
"meanings": [
"in the battle"
]
},
{
"word": "tridaśān",
"meanings": [
"of the denizens of heaven"
]
},
{
"word": "tat-āśiṣaḥ",
"meanings": [
"what is enjoyed by the demigods"
]
},
{
"word": "haranti",
"meanings": [
"do take away"
]
},
{
"word": "vajra-āyudha-vallabha",
"meanings": [
"the wives of the personality who controls the thunderbolt"
]
},
{
"word": "ucitāḥ",
"meanings": [
"deserving."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>The queens at Dvārakā, headed by Satyabhāmā, simply by administering comforts at the lotus feet of the Lord, which is the most important of all services, induced the Lord to conquer the demigods. Thus the queens enjoy things which are prerogatives of the wives of the controller of thunderbolts.</b>",
"purport": [
"<i>Satyabhāmā:</i> One of the principal queens of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa at Dvārakā. After killing Narakāsura, Lord Kṛṣṇa visited the palace of Narakāsura accompanied by Satyabhāmā. He went to Indraloka also with Satyabhāmā, and she was received by Śacīdevī, who introduced her to the mother of the demigods, Aditi. Aditi was very much pleased with Satyabhāmā, and she benedicted her with the blessings of permanent youth as long as Lord Kṛṣṇa remained on the earth. Aditi also took her with her to show her the special prerogatives of the demigods in the heavenly planets. When she saw the <i>pārijāta</i> flower, she desired to have it in her palace at Dvārakā. After that, she came back to Dvārakā along with her husband and expressed her willingness to have the <i>pārijāta</i> flower at her palace. Satyabhāmā's palace was especially bedecked with valuable jewels, and even in the hottest season of summer the inside of the palace remained cool, as if air-conditioned. She decorated her palace with various flags, heralding the news of her great husband's presence there. Once, along with her husband, she met Draupadī, and she was anxious to be instructed by Draupadī in the ways and means of pleasing her husband. Draupadī was expert in this affair because she kept five husbands, the Pāṇḍavas, and all were very much pleased with her.On receipt of Draupadī's instructions, she was very much pleased and offered her good wishes and returned back to Dvārakā. She was the daughter of Śatrujit. After the departure of Lord Kṛṣṇa, when Arjuna visited Dvārakā, all the queens, including Satyabhāmā and Rukmiṇī, lamented for the Lord with great feelings. At the last stage of her life, she left for the forest to undergo severe penances.",
"Satyabhāmā instigated her husband to get the <i>pārijāta</i> flower from the heavenly planets, and the Lord got it even by force from the demigods, as a common husband secures things to please his wife. As already explained, the Lord had very little to do with so many wives to carry out their orders like an ordinary man. But because the queens accepted the high quality of devotional service, namely administering the Lord all comforts, the Lord played the part of a faithful complete husband. No earthly creature can expect to have things from the heavenly kingdom, especially the <i>pārijāta</i> flowers which are simply to be used by the demigods. But due to their becoming the Lord's faithful wives, all of them enjoyed the special prerogatives of the great wives of the denizens of heaven. In other words, since the Lord is the proprietor of everything within His creation, it is not very astonishing for the queens of Dvārakā to have any rare thing from any part of the universe."
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 1,
"chapter": 14,
"verse": 38,
"reference": "SB 1.14.38",
"devanagari": "यद्बाहुदण्डाभ्युदयानुजीविनो यदुप्रवीरा ह्य् अकुतोभया मुहुः\nअधिक्रमन्त्य् अंघ्रिभिर् आहृतां बलात्सभां सुधर्मां सुरसत्तमोचिताम्",
"transliteration": "yad bāhu-daṇḍābhyudayānujīvino\nyadu-pravīrā hy akuto-bhayā muhuḥ\nadhikramanty aṅghribhir āhṛtāṁ balāt\nsabhāṁ sudharmāṁ sura-sattamocitām",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "yat",
"meanings": [
"whose"
]
},
{
"word": "bāhu-daṇḍa",
"meanings": [
"arms"
]
},
{
"word": "abhyudaya",
"meanings": [
"influenced by"
]
},
{
"word": "anujīvinaḥ",
"meanings": [
"always living"
]
},
{
"word": "yadu",
"meanings": [
"the members of the Yadu dynasty"
]
},
{
"word": "pravīrāḥ",
"meanings": [
"great heroes"
]
},
{
"word": "akutaḥ-bhayāḥ",
"meanings": [
"fearless in every respect"
]
},
{
"word": "muhuḥ",
"meanings": [
"constantly"
]
},
{
"word": "adhikramanti",
"meanings": [
"traversing"
]
},
{
"word": "aṅghribhiḥ",
"meanings": [
"by foot"
]
},
{
"word": "āhṛtām",
"meanings": [
"brought about"
]
},
{
"word": "balāt",
"meanings": [
"by force"
]
},
{
"word": "sabhām",
"meanings": [
"assembly house"
]
},
{
"word": "sudharmām",
"meanings": [
"Sudharmā"
]
},
{
"word": "sura-sattama",
"meanings": [
"the best among the demigods"
]
},
{
"word": "ucitām",
"meanings": [
"deserving."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>The great heroes of the Yadu dynasty, being protected by the arms of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, always remain fearless in every respect. And therefore their feet trample over the Sudharmā assembly house, which the best demigods deserved but which was taken away from them.</b>",
"purport": [
"Those who are directly servitors of the Lord are not only protected by the Lord from all fearfulness, but also enjoy the best of things, even if they are forcibly accumulated. The Lord is equal in behavior to all living beings, but He is partial to His pure devotees, being very affectionate toward them. The city of Dvārakā was flourishing, being enriched with the best of things in the material world. The state assembly house is constructed according to the dignity of the particular state. In the heavenly planet, the state assembly house called Sudharmā was deserving of the dignity of the best of the demigods. Such an assembly house is never meant for any state on the globe because the human being on the earth is unable to construct it, however far a particular state may be materially advanced. But during the time of Lord Kṛṣṇa's presence on the earth, the members of the Yadu family forcibly brought the celestial assembly house to earth and placed it at Dvārakā. They were able to use such force because they were certain of the indulgence and protection of the Supreme Lord Kṛṣṇa. In other words, the Lord is provided with the best things in the universe by His pure devotees. Lord Kṛṣṇa was provided with all kinds of comforts and facilities available within the universe by the members of the Yadu dynasty, and in return such servitors of the Lord were protected and fearless.",
"A forgetful conditioned soul is fearful. But a liberated soul is never fearful, just as a small child completely dependent on the mercy of his father is never fearful of anyone. Fearfulness is a sort of illusion for the living being when he is in slumber and forgetting his eternal relation with the Lord. Since the living being is never to die by his constitution, as stated in the <i>Bhagavad-gītā</i> (Bg. 2.20), then what is the cause of fearfulness? A person may be fearful of a tiger in dream, but another man who is awake by his side sees no tiger there. The tiger is a myth for both of them, namely the person dreaming and the person awake, because actually there is no tiger; but the man forgetful of his awakened life is fearful, whereas the man who has not forgotten his position is not at all fearful. Thus the members of Yadu dynasty were fully awake in their service of the Lord, and therefore there was no tiger for them to be afraid of at any time. Even if there were a real tiger, the Lord was there to protect them."
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 1,
"chapter": 14,
"verse": 39,
"reference": "SB 1.14.39",
"devanagari": "कच्चित्ते ऽनामयं तात भ्रष्टतेजा विभासि मे\nअलब्धमानो ऽवज्ञातः किं वा तात चिरोषितः",
"transliteration": "kaccit te 'nāmayaṁ tāta\nbhraṣṭa-tejā vibhāsi me\nalabdha-māno 'vajñātaḥ\nkiṁ vā tāta ciroṣitaḥ",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "kaccit",
"meanings": [
"whether"
]
},
{
"word": "te",
"meanings": [
"your"
]
},
{
"word": "anāmayam",
"meanings": [
"health is all right"
]
},
{
"word": "tāta",
"meanings": [
"my dear brother"
]
},
{
"word": "bhraṣṭa",
"meanings": [
"bereft of"
]
},
{
"word": "tejāḥ",
"meanings": [
"luster"
]
},
{
"word": "vibhāsi",
"meanings": [
"appear"
]
},
{
"word": "me",
"meanings": [
"to me"
]
},
{
"word": "alabdha-mānaḥ",
"meanings": [
"without respect"
]
},
{
"word": "avajñātaḥ",
"meanings": [
"neglected"
]
},
{
"word": "kim",
"meanings": [
"whether"
]
},
{
"word": "vā",
"meanings": [
"or"
]
},
{
"word": "tāta",
"meanings": [
"my dear brother"
]
},
{
"word": "ciroṣitaḥ",
"meanings": [
"because of long residence."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>My brother Arjuna, please tell me whether your health is all right. You appear to have lost your bodily luster. Is this due to others disrespecting and neglecting you because of your long stay at Dvārakā?</b>",
"purport": [
"From all angles of vision, the Mahārāja inquired from Arjuna about the welfare of Dvārakā, but he concluded at last that as long as Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa Himself was there, nothing inauspicious could happen. But at the same time, Arjuna appeared to be bereft of his bodily luster, and thus he inquired of his personal welfare and asked so many vital questions."
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 1,
"chapter": 14,
"verse": 40,
"reference": "SB 1.14.40",
"devanagari": "कच्चिन्नाभिहतो ऽभावैः शब्दादिभिर् अमंगलैः\nन दत्तम् उक्तम् अर्थिभ्य आशया यत्प्रतिश्रुतम्",
"transliteration": "kaccin nābhihato 'bhāvaiḥ\nśabdādibhir amaṅgalaiḥ\nna dattam uktam arthibhya\nāśayā yat pratiśrutam",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "kaccit",
"meanings": [
"whether"
]
},
{
"word": "na",
"meanings": [
"could not"
]
},
{
"word": "abhihataḥ",
"meanings": [
"addresses by"
]
},
{
"word": "abhāvaiḥ",
"meanings": [
"unfriendly"
]
},
{
"word": "śabda-ādibhiḥ",
"meanings": [
"by sounds"
]
},
{
"word": "amaṅgalaiḥ",
"meanings": [
"inauspicious"
]
},
{
"word": "na",
"meanings": [
"did not"
]
},
{
"word": "dattam",
"meanings": [
"give in charity"
]
},
{
"word": "uktam",
"meanings": [
"is said"
]
},
{
"word": "arthibhyaḥ",
"meanings": [
"unto one who asked"
]
},
{
"word": "āśayā",
"meanings": [
"with hope"
]
},
{
"word": "yat",
"meanings": [
"what"
]
},
{
"word": "pratiśrutam",
"meanings": [
"promised to be paid."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>Has someone addressed you with unfriendly words or threatened you? Could you not give charity to one who asked, or could you not keep your promise to someone?</b>",
"purport": [
"A <i>kṣatriya</i> or a rich man is sometimes visited by persons who are in need of money. When they are asked for a donation, it is the duty of the possessor of wealth to give in charity in consideration of the person, place and time. If a <i>kṣatriya</i> or a rich man fails to comply with this obligation, he must be very sorry for this discrepancy. Similarly, one should not fail to keep his promise to give in charity. These discrepancies are sometimes causes of despondency, and thus failing, a person becomes subjected to criticism, which might also be the cause of Arjuna's plight."
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 1,
"chapter": 14,
"verse": 41,
"reference": "SB 1.14.41",
"devanagari": "कच्चित्त्वं ब्राह्मणं बालं गां वृद्धं रोगिणं स्त्रियम्\nशरणोपसृतं सत्त्वं नात्याक्षीः शरणप्रदः",
"transliteration": "kaccit tvaṁ brāhmaṇaṁ bālaṁ\ngāṁ vṛddhaṁ rogiṇaṁ striyam\nśaraṇopasṛtaṁ sattvaṁ\nnātyākṣīḥ śaraṇa-pradaḥ",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "kaccit",
"meanings": [
"whether"
]
},
{
"word": "tvam",
"meanings": [
"yourself"
]
},
{
"word": "brāhmaṇam",
"meanings": [
"the brāhmaṇas"
]
},
{
"word": "bālam",
"meanings": [
"the child"
]
},
{
"word": "gām",
"meanings": [
"the cow"
]
},
{
"word": "vṛddham",
"meanings": [
"old"
]
},
{
"word": "rogiṇam",
"meanings": [
"the diseased"
]
},
{
"word": "striyam",
"meanings": [
"the woman"
]
},
{
"word": "śaraṇa-upasṛtam",
"meanings": [
"having approached for protection"
]
},
{
"word": "sattvam",
"meanings": [
"any living being"
]
},
{
"word": "na",
"meanings": [
"whether"
]
},
{
"word": "atyākṣīḥ",
"meanings": [
"not given shelter"
]
},
{
"word": "śaraṇa-pradaḥ",
"meanings": [
"deserving protection."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>You are always the protector of the deserving living beings, such as brāhmaṇas, children, cows, women and the diseased. Could you not give them protection when they approached you for shelter?</b>",
"purport": [
"The <i>brāhmaṇas,</i> who are always engaged in researching knowledge for the society's welfare work, both materially and spiritually, deserve the protection of the king in all respects. Similarly, the children of the state, the cow, the diseased person, the woman and the old man specifically require the protection of the state or a <i>kṣatriya</i> king. If such living beings do not get protection by the <i>kṣatriya,</i> or the royal order, or by the state, it is certainly shameful for the <i>kṣatriya</i> or the state. Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira was anxious to know about this discrepancy on the part of Arjuna, if such things had actually happened."
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 1,
"chapter": 14,
"verse": 42,
"reference": "SB 1.14.42",
"devanagari": "कच्चित्त्वं नागमो ऽगम्यां गम्यां वासत्कृतां स्त्रियम्\nपराजितो वाथ भवान्नोत्तमैर्नासमैः पथि",
"transliteration": "kaccit tvaṁ nāgamo 'gamyāṁ\ngamyāṁ vāsat-kṛtāṁ striyam\nparājito vātha bhavān\nnottamair nāsamaiḥ pathi",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "kaccit",
"meanings": [
"whether"
]
},
{
"word": "tvam",
"meanings": [
"yourself"
]
},
{
"word": "na",
"meanings": [
"not"
]
},
{
"word": "agamaḥ",
"meanings": [
"did contact"
]
},
{
"word": "agamyām",
"meanings": [
"impeachable"
]
},
{
"word": "gamyām",
"meanings": [
"acceptable"
]
},
{
"word": "vā",
"meanings": [
"either"
]
},
{
"word": "asat-kṛtām",
"meanings": [
"improperly treated"
]
},
{
"word": "striyam",
"meanings": [
"a woman"
]
},
{
"word": "parājitaḥ",
"meanings": [
"defeated by"
]
},
{
"word": "vā",
"meanings": [
"either"
]
},
{
"word": "atha",
"meanings": [
"after all"
]
},
{
"word": "bhavān",
"meanings": [
"your good self"
]
},
{
"word": "na",
"meanings": [
"not"
]
},
{
"word": "uttamaiḥ",
"meanings": [
"by superior power"
]
},
{
"word": "na",
"meanings": [
"nor"
]
},
{
"word": "asamaiḥ",
"meanings": [
"by equals"
]
},
{
"word": "pathi",
"meanings": [
"on the road."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>Have you contacted a woman of impeachable character, or have you not properly treated a deserving woman? Or have you been defeated on the way by someone who is inferior or equal to you?</b>",
"purport": [
"It appears from this verse that during the time of the Pāṇḍavas free contact between man and woman was allowed in certain conditions only. The higher caste men, namely the <i>brāhmaṇas</i> and <i>kṣatriyas,</i> could accept a woman of the <i>vaiśya</i> or the <i>śūdra</i> community, but a man from the lower castes could not contact a woman of the higher caste. Even a <i>kṣatriya</i> could not contact a woman of the <i>brāhmaṇa</i> caste. The wife of a <i>brāhmaṇa</i> is considered one of the seven mothers (namely one's own mother, the wife of the spiritual master or teacher, the wife of a <i>brāhmaṇa,</i> the wife of a king, the cow, the nurse, and the earth). Such contact between man and woman was known as <i>uttama</i> and <i>adhama.</i> Contact of a <i>brāhmaṇa</i> with a <i>kṣatriya</i> woman is <i>uttama</i>, but the contact of a <i>kṣatriya</i> with a woman of a <i>brāhmaṇa</i> is <i>adhama</i> and therefore condemned. A woman approaching a man for contact should never be refused, but at the same time the discretion as above mentioned may also be considered. Bhīma was approached by Hiḍimbī from a community lower than the <i>śūdras</i>, and Yayāti refused to marry the daughter of Śukrācārya because of his being a <i>brāhmaṇa</i>. Vyāsadeva, a <i>brāhmaṇa</i>, was called to beget Pāṇḍu and Dhṛtarāṣṭra. Satyavatī belonged to a family of fishermen, but Parāśara, a great <i>brāhmaṇa</i>, begot in her Vyāsadeva. So there are so many examples of such contacts with woman, but in all cases the contacts were not abominable nor were the results of such contacts bad. Contact between man and woman is natural, but that also must be carried out under regulated principles so that social consecration may not be disturbed nor unwanted worthless population be increased for the unrest of the world.",
"It is abominable for a <i>kṣatriya</i> to be defeated by one who is inferior in strength or equal in strength. If one is defeated at all, he should be defeated by some superior power. Arjuna was defeated by Bhīṣmadeva, and Lord Kṛṣṇa saved him from the danger. This was not insult for Arjuna because Bhīṣmadeva was far superior to Arjuna in all ways, namely age, respect and strength. But Karṇa was equal to Arjuna, and therefore Arjuna was in crisis when fighting with Karṇa. It was felt by Arjuna, and therefore Karṇa was killed even by crooked means. Such are the engagements of the <i>kṣatriyas,</i> and Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira inquired from his brother whether anything undesirable happened on the way home from Dvārakā."
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 1,
"chapter": 14,
"verse": 43,
"reference": "SB 1.14.43",
"devanagari": "अपि स्वित्पर्यभुंक्थास्त्वं सम्भोज्यान्वृद्धबालकान्\nजुगुप्सितं कर्म किंचित्कृतवान्न यद् अक्षमम्",
"transliteration": "api svit parya-bhuṅkthās tvaṁ\nsambhojyān vṛddha-bālakān\njugupsitaṁ karma kiñcit\nkṛtavān na yad akṣamam",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "apisvit",
"meanings": [
"if it were so that"
]
},
{
"word": "parya",
"meanings": [
"by leaving aside"
]
},
{
"word": "bhuṅkthāḥ",
"meanings": [
"have dined"
]
},
{
"word": "tvam",
"meanings": [
"yourself"
]
},
{
"word": "sambhojyān",
"meanings": [
"deserving to dine together"
]
},
{
"word": "vṛddha",
"meanings": [
"the old men"
]
},
{
"word": "bālakān",
"meanings": [
"boys"
]
},
{
"word": "jugupsitam",
"meanings": [
"abominable"
]
},
{
"word": "karma",
"meanings": [
"action"
]
},
{
"word": "kiñcit",
"meanings": [
"something"
]
},
{
"word": "kṛtavān",
"meanings": [
"you must have done"
]
},
{
"word": "na",
"meanings": [
"not"
]
},
{
"word": "yat",
"meanings": [
"that which"
]
},
{
"word": "akṣamam",
"meanings": [
"unpardonable."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>Have you not taken care of old men and boys who deserve to dine with you? Have you left them and taken your meals alone? Have you committed some unpardonable mistake which is considered to be abominable?</b>",
"purport": [
"It is the duty of a householder to feed first of all the children and old members of the family, the brāhmaṇas and the invalids. Besides that, an ideal householder is required to call for any unknown hungry man to come and dine before he himself goes to take his meals. He is required to call for such a hungry man thrice on the road. The neglect of this prescribed duty of a householder, especially in the matter of the old men and children, is unpardonable."
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 1,
"chapter": 14,
"verse": 44,
"reference": "SB 1.14.44",
"devanagari": "कच्चित्प्रेष्ठतमेनाथ हृदयेनात्मबन्धुना\nशून्यो ऽस्मि रहितो नित्यं मन्यसे ते ऽन्यथा न रुक्",
"transliteration": "kaccit preṣṭhatamenātha\nhṛdayenātma-bandhunā\nśūnyo 'smi rahito nityaṁ\nmanyase te 'nyathā na ruk",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "kaccit",
"meanings": [
"whether"
]
},
{
"word": "preṣṭhatamena",
"meanings": [
"unto the most dear one"
]
},
{
"word": "atha",
"meanings": [
"my brother Arjuna"
]
},
{
"word": "hṛdayena",
"meanings": [
"most intimate"
]
},
{
"word": "ātma-bandhunā",
"meanings": [
"own friend Lord Kṛṣṇa"
]
},
{
"word": "śūnyaḥ",
"meanings": [
"void"
]
},
{
"word": "asmi",
"meanings": [
"I am"
]
},
{
"word": "rahitaḥ",
"meanings": [
"having lost"
]
},
{
"word": "nityam",
"meanings": [
"for all time"
]
},
{
"word": "manyase",
"meanings": [
"you think"
]
},
{
"word": "te",
"meanings": [
"your"
]
},
{
"word": "anyathā",
"meanings": [
"otherwise"
]
},
{
"word": "na",
"meanings": [
"never"
]
},
{
"word": "ruk",
"meanings": [
"mental distress."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>Or is it that you are feeling empty all the time because you might have lost your most intimate friend Lord Kṛṣṇa? O my brother Arjuna, I can think of no other reason for you becoming so dejected.</b>",
"purport": [
"All the inquisitiveness of Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira about the world situation was already conjectured by Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira on the basis of Lord Kṛṣṇa's disappearance from the vision of the world, and this was now disclosed by him because of the acute dejection of Arjuna, which could not have been possible otherwise. So even though he was doubtful about it, he was obliged to inquire frankly from Arjuna on the basis of Śrī Nārada's indication."
]
}