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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 8,
"chapter": 12,
"verse": 1,
"reference": "SB 8.12.1-2",
"devanagari": "श्रीबादरायणिर् उवाच\nवृषध्वजो निशम्येदं योषिद्रूपेण दानवान्\nमोहयित्वा सुरगणान्हरिः सोमम् अपाययत्\nवृषम् आरुह्य गिरिशः सर्वभूतगणैर्वृतः\nसह देव्या ययौ द्रष्टुं यत्रास्ते मधुसूदनः",
"transliteration": "śrī-bādarāyaṇir uvāca\nvṛṣa-dhvajo niśamyedaṁ\nyoṣid-rūpeṇa dānavān\nmohayitvā sura-gaṇān\nhariḥ somam apāyayat\nvṛṣam āruhya giriśaḥ\nsarva-bhūta-gaṇair vṛtaḥ\nsaha devyā yayau draṣṭuṁ\nyatrāste madhusūdanaḥ",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "śrī-bādarāyaṇiḥ uvāca",
"meanings": [
"Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said"
]
},
{
"word": "vṛṣa-dhvajaḥ",
"meanings": [
"Lord Śiva, who is carried by a bull"
]
},
{
"word": "niśamya",
"meanings": [
"hearing"
]
},
{
"word": "idam",
"meanings": [
"this (news)"
]
},
{
"word": "yoṣit-rūpeṇa",
"meanings": [
"by assuming the form of a woman"
]
},
{
"word": "dānavān",
"meanings": [
"the demons"
]
},
{
"word": "mohayitvā",
"meanings": [
"enchanting"
]
},
{
"word": "sura-gaṇān",
"meanings": [
"unto the demigods"
]
},
{
"word": "hariḥ",
"meanings": [
"the Supreme Personality of Godhead"
]
},
{
"word": "somam",
"meanings": [
"nectar"
]
},
{
"word": "apāyayat",
"meanings": [
"caused to drink"
]
},
{
"word": "vṛṣam",
"meanings": [
"the bull"
]
},
{
"word": "āruhya",
"meanings": [
"mounting"
]
},
{
"word": "giriśaḥ",
"meanings": [
"Lord Śiva"
]
},
{
"word": "sarva",
"meanings": [
"all"
]
},
{
"word": "bhūta-gaṇaiḥ",
"meanings": [
"by the ghosts"
]
},
{
"word": "vṛtaḥ",
"meanings": [
"surrounded"
]
},
{
"word": "saha devyā",
"meanings": [
"with Umā"
]
},
{
"word": "yayau",
"meanings": [
"went"
]
},
{
"word": "draṣṭum",
"meanings": [
"to see"
]
},
{
"word": "yatra",
"meanings": [
"where"
]
},
{
"word": "āste",
"meanings": [
"stays"
]
},
{
"word": "madhusūdanaḥ",
"meanings": [
"Lord Viṣṇu."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>Śukadeva Gosvāmī said:</b><b> The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Hari, in the form of a woman, captivated the demons and enabled the demigods to drink the nectar. After hearing of these pastimes, Lord Śiva, who is carried by a bull, went to the place where Madhusūdana, the Lord, resides. Accompanied by his wife, Umā, and surrounded by his companions, the ghosts, Lord Śiva went there to see the Lord's form as a woman.</b>",
"purport": [],
"verse_end": 2
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 8,
"chapter": 12,
"verse": 3,
"reference": "SB 8.12.3",
"devanagari": "सभाजितो भगवता सादरं सोमया भवः\nसूपविष्ट उवाचेदं प्रतिपूज्य स्मयन्हरिम्",
"transliteration": "sabhājito bhagavatā\nsādaraṁ somayā bhavaḥ\nsūpaviṣṭa uvācedaṁ\npratipūjya smayan harim",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "sabhājitaḥ",
"meanings": [
"well received"
]
},
{
"word": "bhagavatā",
"meanings": [
"by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Viṣṇu"
]
},
{
"word": "sa-ādaram",
"meanings": [
"with great respect (as befitting Lord Śiva)"
]
},
{
"word": "sa-umayā",
"meanings": [
"with Umā"
]
},
{
"word": "bhavaḥ",
"meanings": [
"Lord Śambhu (Lord Śiva)"
]
},
{
"word": "su-upaviṣṭaḥ",
"meanings": [
"being comfortably situated"
]
},
{
"word": "uvāca",
"meanings": [
"said"
]
},
{
"word": "idam",
"meanings": [
"this"
]
},
{
"word": "pratipūjya",
"meanings": [
"offering respect"
]
},
{
"word": "smayan",
"meanings": [
"smiling"
]
},
{
"word": "harim",
"meanings": [
"unto the Lord."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>The Supreme Personality of Godhead welcomed Lord Śiva and Umā with great respect, and after being seated comfortably, Lord Śiva duly worshiped the Lord and smilingly spoke as follows.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 8,
"chapter": 12,
"verse": 4,
"reference": "SB 8.12.4",
"devanagari": "श्रीमहादेव उवाच\nदेवदेव जगद्व्यापिञ्जगदीश जगन्मय\nसर्वेषाम् अपि भावानां त्वम् आत्मा हेतुर् ईश्वरः",
"transliteration": "śrī-mahādeva uvāca\ndeva-deva jagad-vyāpiñ\njagad-īśa jagan-maya\nsarveṣām api bhāvānāṁ\ntvam ātmā hetur īśvaraḥ",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "śrī-mahādevaḥ uvāca",
"meanings": [
"Lord Śiva (Mahādeva) said"
]
},
{
"word": "deva-deva",
"meanings": [
"O best demigod among the demigods"
]
},
{
"word": "jagat-vyāpin",
"meanings": [
"O all-pervading Lord"
]
},
{
"word": "jagat-īśa",
"meanings": [
"O master of the universe"
]
},
{
"word": "jagat-maya",
"meanings": [
"O my Lord, who are transformed by Your energy into this creation"
]
},
{
"word": "sarveṣām api",
"meanings": [
"all kinds of"
]
},
{
"word": "bhāvānām",
"meanings": [
"situations"
]
},
{
"word": "tvam",
"meanings": [
"You"
]
},
{
"word": "ātmā",
"meanings": [
"the moving force"
]
},
{
"word": "hetuḥ",
"meanings": [
"because of this"
]
},
{
"word": "īśvaraḥ",
"meanings": [
"the Supreme Lord, Parameśvara."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>Lord Mahādeva said:</b><b> O chief demigod among the demigods, O all-pervading Lord, master of the universe, by Your energy You are transformed into the creation. You are the root and efficient cause of everything. You are not material. Indeed, You are the Supersoul or supreme living force of everything. Therefore, You are Parameśvara, the supreme controller of all controllers.</b>",
"purport": [
"The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Viṣṇu, resides within the material world as the <i>sattva-guṇa-avatāra.</i> Lord Śiva is the <i>tamo-guṇa-avatāra,</i> and Lord Brahmā is the <i>rajo-guṇa-avatāra,</i> but although Lord Viṣṇu is among them, He is not in the same category. Lord Viṣṇu is <i>deva-deva,</i> the chief of all the demigods. Since Lord Śiva is in this material world, the energy of the Supreme Lord, Viṣṇu, includes Lord Śiva. Lord Viṣṇu is therefore called <i>jagad-vyāpī,</i> \"the all-pervading Lord.\" Lord Śiva is sometimes called Maheśvara, and so people think that Lord Śiva is everything. But here Lord Śiva addresses Lord Viṣṇu as Jagad-īśa, \"the master of the universe.\" Lord Śiva is sometimes called Viśveśvara, but here he addresses Lord Viṣṇu as Jagan-maya, indicating that even Viśveśvara is under Lord Viṣṇu's control. Lord Viṣṇu is the master of the spiritual world, yet He controls the material world also, as stated in <i>Bhagavad-gītā</i> (<i>mayādhyakṣeṇa prakṛtiḥ sūyate sacarācaram</i>). Lord Brahmā and Lord Śiva are also sometimes called <i>īśvara,</i> but the supreme <i>īśvara</i> is Lord Viṣṇu, Lord Kṛṣṇa. As stated in <i>Brahma-saṁhitā, īśvaraḥ paramaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ:</i> the Supreme Lord is Kṛṣṇa, Lord Viṣṇu. Everything in existence works in proper order because of Lord Viṣṇu. <i>Aṇḍāntara-stha-paramāṇu-cayāntara-stham.</i> Even <i>paramāṇu,</i> the small atoms, work because of Lord Viṣṇu's presence within them."
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 8,
"chapter": 12,
"verse": 5,
"reference": "SB 8.12.5",
"devanagari": "आद्यन्ताव् अस्य यन्मध्यम् इदम् अन्यद् अहं बहिः\nयतो ऽव्ययस्य नैतानि तत्सत्यं ब्रह्म चिद्भवान्",
"transliteration": "ādy-antāv asya yan madhyam\nidam anyad ahaṁ bahiḥ\nyato 'vyayasya naitāni\ntat satyaṁ brahma cid bhavān",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "ādi",
"meanings": [
"the beginning"
]
},
{
"word": "antau",
"meanings": [
"and the end"
]
},
{
"word": "asya",
"meanings": [
"of this manifested cosmos or of anything material or visible"
]
},
{
"word": "yat",
"meanings": [
"that which"
]
},
{
"word": "madhyam",
"meanings": [
"between the beginning and the end, the sustenance"
]
},
{
"word": "idam",
"meanings": [
"this cosmic manifestation"
]
},
{
"word": "anyat",
"meanings": [
"anything other than You"
]
},
{
"word": "aham",
"meanings": [
"the wrong mental conception"
]
},
{
"word": "bahiḥ",
"meanings": [
"outside of You"
]
},
{
"word": "yataḥ",
"meanings": [
"because of"
]
},
{
"word": "avyayasya",
"meanings": [
"the inexhaustible"
]
},
{
"word": "na",
"meanings": [
"not"
]
},
{
"word": "etāni",
"meanings": [
"all these differences"
]
},
{
"word": "tat",
"meanings": [
"that"
]
},
{
"word": "satyam",
"meanings": [
"the Absolute Truth"
]
},
{
"word": "brahma",
"meanings": [
"the Supreme"
]
},
{
"word": "cit",
"meanings": [
"spiritual"
]
},
{
"word": "bhavān",
"meanings": [
"Your Lordship."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>The manifest, the unmanifest, false ego and the beginning, maintenance and annihilation of this cosmic manifestation all come from You, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. But because You are the Absolute Truth, the supreme absolute spirit soul, the Supreme Brahman, such changes as birth, death and sustenance do not exist in You.</b>",
"purport": [
"According to the Vedic <i>mantras, yato vā imāni bhūtāni jāyante:</i> everything is an emanation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. As stated by the Lord Himself in <i>Bhagavad-gītā</i> (7.4):",
"<i>bhūmir āpo 'nalo vāyuḥ<br/> khaṁ mano buddhir eva ca<br/> ahaṅkāra itīyaṁ me<br/> bhinnā prakṛtir aṣṭadhā</i>",
"\"Earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, intelligence and false ego—all together these eight comprise My separated material energies.\" In other words, the ingredients of the cosmic manifestation also consist of the energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This does not mean, however, that because the ingredients come from Him, He is no longer complete. <i>Pūrṇasya pūrṇam ādāya pūrṇam evāvaśiṣyate: </i>\"Because He is the complete whole, even though so many complete units emanate from Him, He remains the complete balance.\" Thus the Lord is called <i>avyaya,</i> inexhaustible. Unless we accept the Absolute Truth as <i>acintya-bhedābheda,</i> simultaneously one and different, we cannot have a clear conception of the Absolute Truth. The Lord is the root of everything. <i>Aham ādir hi devānām:</i> He is the original cause of all the <i>devas,</i> or demigods. <i>Ahaṁ sarvasya prabhavaḥ: </i>everything emanates from Him. In all cases—nominative, objective, positive, negative and so on—whatever we may conceive of in this entire cosmic manifestation is in fact the Supreme Lord. For Him there are no such distinctions as \"this is mine, and this belongs to someone else,\" because He is everything. He is therefore called <i>avyaya</i>—changeless and inexhaustible. Because the Supreme Lord is <i>avyaya,</i> He is the Absolute Truth, the fully spiritual Supreme Brahman."
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 8,
"chapter": 12,
"verse": 6,
"reference": "SB 8.12.6",
"devanagari": "तवैव चरणाम्भोजं श्रेयस्कामा निराशिषः\nविसृज्योभयतः संगं मुनयः समुपासते",
"transliteration": "tavaiva caraṇāmbhojaṁ\nśreyas-kāmā nirāśiṣaḥ\nvisṛjyobhayataḥ saṅgaṁ\nmunayaḥ samupāsate",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "tava",
"meanings": [
"Your"
]
},
{
"word": "eva",
"meanings": [
"indeed"
]
},
{
"word": "caraṇa-ambhojam",
"meanings": [
"lotus feet"
]
},
{
"word": "śreyaḥ-kāmāḥ",
"meanings": [
"persons desiring the ultimate auspiciousness, the ultimate goal of life"
]
},
{
"word": "nirāśiṣaḥ",
"meanings": [
"without material desire"
]
},
{
"word": "visṛjya",
"meanings": [
"giving up"
]
},
{
"word": "ubhayataḥ",
"meanings": [
"in this life and the next"
]
},
{
"word": "saṅgam",
"meanings": [
"attachment"
]
},
{
"word": "munayaḥ",
"meanings": [
"great sages"
]
},
{
"word": "samupāsate",
"meanings": [
"worship."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>Pure devotees or great saintly persons who desire to achieve the highest goal in life and who are completely free from all material desires for sense gratification engage constantly in the transcendental service of Your lotus feet.</b>",
"purport": [
"One is in the material world when he thinks, \"I am this body, and everything with reference to my body is mine.\" <i>Ato gṛha-kṣetra-sutāpta-vittair janasya moho 'yam ahaṁ mameti.</i> This is the symptom of material life. In the materialistic conception of life, one thinks, \"This is my house, this is my land, this is my family, this is my state,\" and so on. But those who are <i>munayaḥ,</i> saintly persons following in the footsteps of Nārada Muni, simply engage in the transcendental loving service of the Lord without any personal desire for sense gratification. <i>Anyābhilāṣitā-śūnyaṁ jñāna-karmādy-anāvṛtam.</i> Either in this life or in the next, the only concern of such saintly devotees is to serve the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Thus they are also absolute because they have no other desires. Being freed from the dualities of material desire, they are called <i>śreyas-kāmāḥ.</i> In other words, they are not concerned with <i>dharma</i> (religiosity), <i>artha</i> (economic development), or <i>kāma</i> (sense gratification). The only concern of such devotees is <i>mokṣa,</i> liberation. This <i>mokṣa</i> does not refer to becoming one with the Supreme like the Māyāvādī philosophers. Caitanya Mahāprabhu explained that real <i>mokṣa</i> means taking shelter of the lotus feet of the Personality of Godhead. The Lord clearly explained this fact while instructing Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya. Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya wanted to correct the word <i>mukti-pade</i> in <i>Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam,</i> but Caitanya Mahāprabhu informed him that there is no need to correct any word in <i>Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.</i> He explained that <i>mukti-pade</i> refers to the lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Viṣṇu, who offers <i>mukti</i> and is therefore called Mukunda. A pure devotee is not concerned with material things. He is not concerned with religiosity, economic development or sense gratification. He is interested only in serving the lotus feet of the Lord."
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 8,
"chapter": 12,
"verse": 8,
"reference": "SB 8.12.8",
"devanagari": "एकस्त्वम् एव सद् असद्द्वयम् अद्वयं च स्वर्णं कृताकृतम् इवेह न वस्तुभेदः\nअज्ञानतस्त्वयि जनैर्विहितो विकल्पो यस्माद्गुणव्यतिकरो निरुपाधिकस्य",
"transliteration": "ekas tvam eva sad asad dvayam advayaṁ ca\nsvarṇaṁ kṛtākṛtam iveha na vastu-bhedaḥ\najñānatas tvayi janair vihito vikalpo\nyasmād guṇa-vyatikaro nirupādhikasya",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "ekaḥ",
"meanings": [
"the only one"
]
},
{
"word": "tvam",
"meanings": [
"Your Lordship"
]
},
{
"word": "eva",
"meanings": [
"indeed"
]
},
{
"word": "sat",
"meanings": [
"which is existing, as the effect"
]
},
{
"word": "asat",
"meanings": [
"which is nonexistent, as the cause"
]
},
{
"word": "dvayam",
"meanings": [
"both of them"
]
},
{
"word": "advayam",
"meanings": [
"without duality"
]
},
{
"word": "ca",
"meanings": [
"and"
]
},
{
"word": "svarṇam",
"meanings": [
"gold"
]
},
{
"word": "kṛta",
"meanings": [
"manufactured into different forms"
]
},
{
"word": "ākṛtam",
"meanings": [
"the original source of gold (the gold mine)"
]
},
{
"word": "iva",
"meanings": [
"like"
]
},
{
"word": "iha",
"meanings": [
"in this world"
]
},
{
"word": "na",
"meanings": [
"not"
]
},
{
"word": "vastu-bhedaḥ",
"meanings": [
"difference in the substance"
]
},
{
"word": "ajñānataḥ",
"meanings": [
"only because of ignorance"
]
},
{
"word": "tvayi",
"meanings": [
"unto You"
]
},
{
"word": "janaiḥ",
"meanings": [
"by the general mass of people"
]
},
{
"word": "vihitaḥ",
"meanings": [
"it should be done"
]
},
{
"word": "vikalpaḥ",
"meanings": [
"differentiation"
]
},
{
"word": "yasmāt",
"meanings": [
"because of"
]
},
{
"word": "guṇa-vyatikaraḥ",
"meanings": [
"free from the differences created by the material modes of nature"
]
},
{
"word": "nirupādhikasya",
"meanings": [
"without any material designation."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>My dear Lord, Your Lordship alone is the cause and the effect. Therefore, although You appear to be two, You are the absolute one. As there is no difference between the gold of a golden ornament and the gold in a mine, there is no difference between cause and effect; both of them are the same. Only because of ignorance do people concoct differences and dualities. You are free from material contamination, and since the entire cosmos is caused by You and cannot exist without You, it is an effect of Your transcendental qualities. Thus the conception that Brahman is true and the world false cannot be maintained.</b>",
"purport": [
"Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura says that the living entities are representations of the Supreme Personality of Godhead's marginal potency whereas the various bodies accepted by the living entities are products of the material energy. Thus the body is considered material, and the soul is considered spiritual. The origin of them both, however, is the same Supreme Personality of Godhead. As the Lord explains in <i>Bhagavad-gītā</i> (7.4-5):",
"<i>bhūmir āpo 'nalo vāyuḥ<br/> khaṁ mano buddhir eva ca<br/> ahaṅkāra itīyaṁ me<br/> bhinnā prakṛtir aṣṭadhā</i>",
"<i>apareyam itas tv anyāṁ<br/> prakṛtiṁ viddhi me parām<br/> jīva-bhūtāṁ mahā-bāho<br/> yayedaṁ dhāryate jagat</i>",
"\"Earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, intelligence and false ego—all together these eight comprise My separated material energies. But besides this inferior nature, O mighty-armed Arjuna, there is a superior energy of Mine, which consists of all living entities who are struggling with material nature and are sustaining the universe.\" Thus both matter and the living entities are manifestations of energy of the Supreme Lord. Since the energy and the energetic are not different and since the material and marginal energies are both energies of the supreme energetic, the Supreme Lord, ultimately the Supreme Personality of Godhead is everything. In this regard, the example may be given of gold that has not been molded and gold that has been molded into various ornaments. A gold earring and the gold in a mine are different only as cause and effect; otherwise they are the same. The <i>Vedānta-</i><b><i>sūtra</i></b><b> </b><b>describes that Brahman is the cause of everything. </b><b><i>Janmādy asya yataḥ.</i></b><b> Everything is born of the Supreme Brahman, from which everything emanates as different energies. None of these energies, therefore, should be considered false. The Māyāvādīs' differentiation between Brahman and </b><b><i>māyā</i></b><b> is only due to ignorance.</b>",
"Śrīmad Vīrarāghava Ācārya, in his <i>Bhāgavata-candra-candrikā,</i> describes the Vaiṣṇava philosophy as follows. The cosmic manifestation is described as <i>sat</i> and <i>asat,</i> as <i>cit</i> and <i>acit.</i> Matter is <i>acit,</i> and the living force is <i>cit,</i> but their origin is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, in whom there is no difference between matter and spirit. According to this conception, the cosmic manifestation, consisting of both matter and spirit, is not different from the Supreme Personality of Godhead. <i>Idaṁ hi viśvaṁ bhagavān ivetaraḥ:</i> \"This cosmic manifestation is also the Supreme Personality of Godhead, although it appears different from Him.\" In <i>Bhagavad-gītā</i> (9.4) the Lord says:",
"<i>mayā tatam idaṁ sarvaṁ<br/> jagad avyakta-mūrtinā<br/> mat-sthāni sarva-bhūtāni<br/> na cāhaṁ teṣv avasthitaḥ</i>",
"\"By Me, in My unmanifested form, this entire universe is pervaded. All beings are in Me, but I am not in them.\" Thus although someone may say that the Supreme Person is different from the cosmic manifestation, actually He is not. The Lord says, <i>mayā tatam idaṁ sarvam:</i> \"In My impersonal feature I am spread throughout the world.\" Therefore, this world is not different from Him. The difference is a difference in names. For example, whether we speak of gold earrings, gold bangles or gold necklaces, ultimately they are all gold. In a similar way, all the different manifestations of matter and spirit are ultimately one in the Supreme Personality of Godhead. <i>Ekam evādvitīyaṁ brahma.</i> This is the Vedic version (<i>Chāndogya Upaniṣad</i> 6.2.1). There is oneness because everything emanates from the Supreme Brahman. The example already given is that there is no difference between a golden earring and the gold mine as it is. The Vaiśeṣika philosophers, however, because of their Māyāvāda conception, create differences. They say, <i>brahma satyaṁ jagan mithyā:</i> \"The Absolute Truth is real, and the cosmic manifestation is false.\" But why should the <i>jagat</i> be considered <i>mithyā</i>? The <i>jagat</i> is an emanation from Brahman. Therefore the <i>jagat</i> is also truth.",
"Vaiṣṇavas, therefore, do not consider the <i>jagat</i> to be <i>mithyā;</i> rather, they regard everything as reality in connection with the Supreme Personality of Godhead.",
"<i>anāsaktasya viṣayān<br/> yathārham upayuñjataḥ<br/> nirbandhaḥ kṛṣṇa-sambandhe<br/> yuktaṁ vairāgyam ucyate</i>",
"<i>prāpañcikatayā buddhyā<br/> hari-sambandhi-vastunaḥ<br/> mumukṣubhiḥ parityāgo<br/> vairāgyaṁ phalgu kathyate</i>",
"\"Things should be accepted for the Lord's service and not for one's personal sense gratification. If one accepts something without attachment and accepts it because it is related to Kṛṣṇa, one's renunciation is called <i>yuktaṁ vairāgyam.</i> Whatever is favorable for the rendering of service to the Lord should be accepted and should not be rejected as a material thing.\" (<i>Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu</i> 1.2.255-256) The <i>jagat</i> should not be rejected as <i>mithyā.</i> It is truth, and the truth is realized when everything is engaged in the service of the Lord. A flower accepted for one's sense gratification is material, but when the same flower is offered to the Supreme Personality of Godhead by a devotee, it is spiritual. Food taken and cooked for oneself is material, but food cooked for the Supreme Lord is spiritual <i>prasāda.</i> This is a question of realization. Actually, everything is given by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and therefore everything is spiritual, but those who are not advanced in proper knowledge make distinctions because of the interactions of the three modes of material nature. In this regard, Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī says that although the sun is the only light, the sunshine, which is exhibited in seven colors, and darkness, which is the absence of sunshine, are not different from the sun, for without the existence of the sun such differentiations cannot exist. There may be varied nomenclature because of different conditions, but they are all the sun. The <i>Purāṇas</i> therefore say:",
"<i>eka-deśa-sthitasyāgner<br/> jyotsnā vistāriṇī yathā<br/> parasya brahmaṇaḥ śaktis<br/> tathedam akhilaṁ jagat</i>",
"\"Just as the illumination of a fire, which is situated in one place, is spread all over, the energies of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Parabrahman, are spread all over this universe.\" (<i>Viṣṇu Purāṇa</i> 1.22.53) Materially, we can directly perceive the sunshine spreading itself according to different names and activities, but ultimately the sun is one. Similarly, <i>sarvaṁ khalv idaṁ brahma:</i> everything is an expansion of the Supreme Brahman. Therefore, the Supreme Lord is everything, and He is one without differentiation. There is no existence separate from the Supreme Personality of Godhead."
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 8,
"chapter": 12,
"verse": 9,
"reference": "SB 8.12.9",
"devanagari": "त्वां ब्रह्म केचिद् अवयन्त्य् उत धर्मम् एके एके परं सदसतोः पुरुषं परेशम्\nअन्ये ऽवयन्ति नवशक्तियुतं परं त्वां केचिन्महापुरुषम् अव्ययम् आत्मतन्त्रम्",
"transliteration": "tvāṁ brahma kecid avayanty uta dharmam eke\neke paraṁ sad-asatoḥ puruṣaṁ pareśam\nanye 'vayanti nava-śakti-yutaṁ paraṁ tvāṁ\nkecin mahā-puruṣam avyayam ātma-tantram",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "tvām",
"meanings": [
"You"
]
},
{
"word": "brahma",
"meanings": [
"the supreme truth, the Absolute Truth, Brahman, kecit—some people, namely the group of Māyāvādīs known as the Vedāntists"
]
},
{
"word": "avayanti",
"meanings": [
"consider"
]
},
{
"word": "uta",
"meanings": [
"certainly"
]
},
{
"word": "dharmam",
"meanings": [
"religion"
]
},
{
"word": "eke",
"meanings": [
"some others"
]
},
{
"word": "eke",
"meanings": [
"some others"
]
},
{
"word": "param",
"meanings": [
"transcendental"
]
},
{
"word": "sat-asatoḥ",
"meanings": [
"to both cause and effect"
]
},
{
"word": "puruṣam",
"meanings": [
"the Supreme Person"
]
},
{
"word": "pareśam",
"meanings": [
"the supreme controller"
]
},
{
"word": "anye",
"meanings": [
"others"
]
},
{
"word": "avayanti",
"meanings": [
"describe"
]
},
{
"word": "nava-śakti-yutam",
"meanings": [
"endowed with nine potencies"
]
},
{
"word": "param",
"meanings": [
"transcendental"
]
},
{
"word": "tvām",
"meanings": [
"unto You"
]
},
{
"word": "kecit",
"meanings": [
"some"
]
},
{
"word": "mahā-puruṣam",
"meanings": [
"the Supreme Personality of Godhead"
]
},
{
"word": "avyayam",
"meanings": [
"without loss of energy"
]
},
{
"word": "ātma-tantram",
"meanings": [
"supremely independent."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>Those who are known as the impersonalist Vedāntists regard You as the impersonal Brahman. Others, known as the Mīmāṁsaka philosophers, regard You as religion. The Sāṅkhya philosophers regard You as the transcendental person who is beyond prakṛti and puruṣa and who is the controller of even the demigods. The followers of the codes of devotional service known as the Pañcarātras regard You as being endowed with nine different potencies. And the Patañjala philosophers, the followers of Patañjali Muni, regard You as the supreme independent Personality of Godhead, who has no equal or superior.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 8,
"chapter": 12,
"verse": 10,
"reference": "SB 8.12.10",
"devanagari": "नाहं परायुर् ऋषयो न मरीचिमुख्या जानन्ति यद्विरचितं खलु सत्त्वसर्गाः\nयन्मायया मुषितचेतस ईश दैत्य मर्त्यादयः किम् उत शश्वदभद्रवृत्ताः",
"transliteration": "nāhaṁ parāyur ṛṣayo na marīci-mukhyā\njānanti yad-viracitaṁ khalu sattva-sargāḥ\nyan-māyayā muṣita-cetasa īśa daitya-\nmartyādayaḥ kim uta śaśvad-abhadra-vṛttāḥ",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "na",
"meanings": [
"neither"
]
},
{
"word": "aham",
"meanings": [
"I"
]
},
{
"word": "para-āyuḥ",
"meanings": [
"that personality who lives for millions and millions of years (Lord Brahmā)"
]
},
{
"word": "ṛṣayaḥ",
"meanings": [
"the seven ṛṣis of the seven planets"
]
},
{
"word": "na",
"meanings": [
"nor"
]
},
{
"word": "marīci-mukhyāḥ",
"meanings": [
"headed by Marīci Ṛṣi"
]
},
{
"word": "jānanti",
"meanings": [
"know"
]
},
{
"word": "yat",
"meanings": [
"by whom (the Supreme Lord)"
]
},
{
"word": "viracitam",
"meanings": [
"this universe, which has been created"
]
},
{
"word": "khalu",
"meanings": [
"indeed"
]
},
{
"word": "sattva-sargāḥ",
"meanings": [
"although born in the mode of material goodness"
]
},
{
"word": "yat-māyayā",
"meanings": [
"by the influence of whose energy"
]
},
{
"word": "muṣita-cetasaḥ",
"meanings": [
"their hearts are bewildered"
]
},
{
"word": "īśa",
"meanings": [
"O my Lord"
]
},
{
"word": "daitya",
"meanings": [
"the demons"
]
},
{
"word": "martya-ādayaḥ",
"meanings": [
"the human beings and others"
]
},
{
"word": "kim uta",
"meanings": [
"what to speak of"
]
},
{
"word": "śaśvat",
"meanings": [
"always"
]
},
{
"word": "abhadra-vṛttāḥ",
"meanings": [
"influenced by the base qualities of material nature."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>O my Lord, I, who am considered to be the best of the demigods, and Lord Brahmā and the great ṛṣis, headed by Marīci, are born of the mode of goodness. Nonetheless, we are bewildered by Your illusory energy and cannot understand what this creation is. Aside from us, what is to be said of others, like the demons and human beings, who are in the base modes of material nature </b><b>[rajo-guṇa and tamo-guṇa]</b><b>? How will they know You?</b>",
"purport": [
"Factually speaking, even those who are situated in the material mode of goodness cannot understand the position of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. What then is to be said of those who are situated in <i>rajo-guṇa</i> and <i>tamo-guṇa,</i> the base qualities of material nature? How can we even imagine the Supreme Personality of Godhead? There are so many philosophers trying to understand the Absolute Truth, but since they are situated in the base qualities of material nature and are addicted to so many bad habits, like drinking, meat-eating, illicit sex and gambling, how can they conceive of the Supreme Personality of Godhead? For them it is impossible. For the present day, the <i>pāñcarātrikī-vidhi</i> as enunciated by Nārada Muni is the only hope. Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī, therefore, has quoted the following verse from the <i>Brahma-yāmala:</i>",
"<i>śruti-smṛti-purāṇādi-<br/> pañcarātra-vidhiṁ vinā<br/> aikāntikī harer bhaktir<br/> utpātāyaiva kalpate</i>",
"\"Devotional service of the Lord that ignores the authorized Vedic literatures like the <i>Upaniṣads, Purāṇas</i> and <i>Nārada-pañcarātra</i> is simply an unnecessary disturbance in society.\" (<i>Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu</i> 1.2.101) Those who are very advanced in knowledge and are situated in the mode of goodness follow the Vedic instructions of the <i>śruti</i> and <i>smṛti</i> and other religious scriptures, including the <i>pāñcarātrikī-vidhi.</i> Without understanding the Supreme Personality of Godhead in this way, one only creates a disturbance. In this age of Kali, so many <i>gurus</i> have sprung up, and because they do not refer to the <i>śruti-smṛti-purāṇādi-pañcarātrika-vidhi,</i> they are creating a great disturbance in the world in regard to understanding the Absolute Truth. However, those who follow the <i>pāñcarātrikī-vidhi</i> under the guidance of a proper spiritual master can understand the Absolute Truth. It is said, <i>pañcarātrasya kṛtsnasya vaktā tu bhagavān svayam:</i> the <i>pañcarātra</i> system is spoken by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, just like <i>Bhagavad-gītā.</i> <i>Vāsudeva-śaraṇā vidur añjasaiva:</i> the truth can be understood only by one who has taken shelter of the lotus feet of Vāsudeva.",
"<i>bahūnāṁ janmanām ante<br/> jñānavān māṁ prapadyate<br/> vāsudevaḥ sarvam iti<br/> sa mahātmā sudurlabhaḥ</i>",
"\"After many births and deaths, he who is actually in knowledge surrenders unto Me, knowing Me to be the cause of all causes and all that is. Such a great soul is very rare.\" (Bg.<i> </i>7.19) Only those who have surrendered to the lotus feet of Vāsudeva can understand the Absolute Truth.",
"<i>vāsudeve bhagavati<br/> bhakti-yogaḥ prayojitaḥ<br/> janayaty āśu vairāgyaṁ<br/> jñānaṁ ca yad ahaitukam</i>",
"\"By rendering devotional service unto the Personality of Godhead, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, one immediately acquires causeless knowledge and detachment from the world.\" (<i>Bhāg</i> 1.2.7) Therefore, Vāsudeva, Bhagavān Śrī Kṛṣṇa, personally teaches in <i>Bhagavad-gītā:</i>",
"<i>sarva-dharmān parityajya<br/> mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja</i>",
"\"Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me.\" (Bg. 18.66)",
"<i>bhaktyā mām abhijānāti<br/> yāvān yaś cāsmi tattvataḥ</i>",
"\"One can understand the Supreme Personality as He is only by devotional service.\" (Bg. 18.55) The Supreme Personality of Godhead is not properly understood even by Lord Śiva or Lord Brahmā, what to speak of others, but He can be understood by the process of <i>bhakti-yoga.</i>",
"<i>mayy āsakta-manāḥ pārtha<br/> yogaṁ yuñjan mad-āśrayaḥ<br/> asaṁśayaṁ samagraṁ māṁ<br/> yathā jñāsyasi tac chṛṇu<br/> </i>(Bg. <i>7.1</i>)",
"If one practices <i>bhakti-yoga</i> by taking shelter of Vāsudeva, Kṛṣṇa, simply by hearing Vāsudeva speak about Himself, one can understand everything about Him. Indeed, one can understand Him completely (<i>samagram</i>)."
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 8,
"chapter": 12,
"verse": 11,
"reference": "SB 8.12.11",
"devanagari": "स त्वं समीहितम् अदः स्थितिजन्मनाशं भूतेहितं च जगतो भवबन्धमोक्षौ\nवायुर्यथा विशति खं च चराचराख्यं सर्वं तदात्मकतयावगमो ऽवरुन्त्से",
"transliteration": "sa tvaṁ samīhitam adaḥ sthiti-janma-nāśaṁ\nbhūtehitaṁ ca jagato bhava-bandha-mokṣau\nvāyur yathā viśati khaṁ ca carācarākhyaṁ\nsarvaṁ tad-ātmakatayāvagamo 'varuntse",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "saḥ",
"meanings": [
"Your Lordship"
]
},
{
"word": "tvam",
"meanings": [
"the Supreme Personality of Godhead"
]
},
{
"word": "samīhitam",
"meanings": [
"which has been created (by You)"
]
},
{
"word": "adaḥ",
"meanings": [
"of this material cosmic manifestation"
]
},
{
"word": "sthiti-janma-nāśam",
"meanings": [
"creation, maintenance and annihilation"
]
},
{
"word": "bhūta",
"meanings": [
"of the living entities"
]
},
{
"word": "īhitam ca",
"meanings": [
"and the different activities or endeavors"
]
},
{
"word": "jagataḥ",
"meanings": [
"of the whole world"
]
},
{
"word": "bhava-bandha-mokṣau",
"meanings": [
"in being implicated and being liberated from material complications"
]
},
{
"word": "vāyuḥ",
"meanings": [
"the air"
]
},
{
"word": "yathā",
"meanings": [
"as"
]
},
{
"word": "viśati",
"meanings": [
"enters"
]
},
{
"word": "kham",
"meanings": [
"in the vast sky"
]
},
{
"word": "ca",
"meanings": [
"and"
]
},
{
"word": "cara-acara-ākhyam",
"meanings": [
"and everything, moving and nonmoving"
]
},
{
"word": "sarvam",
"meanings": [
"everything"
]
},
{
"word": "tat",
"meanings": [
"that"
]
},
{
"word": "ātmakatayā",
"meanings": [
"because of Your presence"
]
},
{
"word": "avagamaḥ",
"meanings": [
"everything is known to You"
]
},
{
"word": "avaruntse",
"meanings": [
"You are all-pervading and therefore know everything."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>My Lord, You are the supreme knowledge personified. You know everything about this creation and its beginning, maintenance and annihilation, and You know all the endeavors made by the living entities, by which they are either implicated in this material world or liberated from it. As the air enters the vast sky and also enters the bodies of all moving and nonmoving entities, You are present everywhere, and therefore You are the knower of all.</b>",
"purport": [
"As stated in the <i>Brahma-saṁhitā:</i>",
"<i>eko 'py asau racayituṁ jagad-aṇḍa-koṭiṁ<br/> yac-chaktir asti jagad-aṇḍa-cayā yad-antaḥ<br/> aṇḍāntara-stha-paramāṇu-cayāntara-sthaṁ<br/> govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi</i>",
"\"I worship the Personality of Godhead, Govinda, who by one of His plenary portions enters the existence of every universe and every atomic particle and thus manifests His infinite energy unlimitedly throughout the material creation.\" (Bs. 5.35)",
"<i>ānanda-cinmaya-rasa-pratibhāvitābhis<br/> tābhir ya eva nija-rūpatayā kalābhiḥ<br/> goloka eva nivasaty akhilātma-bhūto<br/> govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi</i>",
"\"I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, who resides in His own realm, Goloka, with Rādhā, who resembles His own spiritual figure and who embodies the ecstatic potency [<i>hlādinī</i>]. Their companions are Her confidantes, who embody extensions of Her bodily form and who are imbued and permeated with ever-blissful spiritual <i>rasa.</i>\" (Bs. 5.37)",
"Although Govinda is always present in His abode (<i>goloka eva nivasati</i>), He is simultaneously present everywhere. Nothing is unknown to Him, and nothing can be hidden from Him. The example given here compares the Lord to the air, which is within the vast sky and within every body but still is different from everything."
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 8,
"chapter": 12,
"verse": 12,
"reference": "SB 8.12.12",
"devanagari": "अवतारा मया दृष्टा रममाणस्य ते गुणैः\nसो ऽहं तद्द्रष्टुम् इच्छामि यत्ते योषिद्वपुर्धृतम्",
"transliteration": "avatārā mayā dṛṣṭā\nramamāṇasya te guṇaiḥ\nso 'haṁ tad draṣṭum icchāmi\nyat te yoṣid-vapur dhṛtam",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "avatārāḥ",
"meanings": [
"incarnations"
]
},
{
"word": "mayā",
"meanings": [
"by me"
]
},
{
"word": "dṛṣṭāḥ",
"meanings": [
"have been seen"
]
},
{
"word": "ramamāṇasya",
"meanings": [
"while You demonstrate Your various pastimes"
]
},
{
"word": "te",
"meanings": [
"of You"
]
},
{
"word": "guṇaiḥ",
"meanings": [
"by the manifestations of transcendental qualities"
]
},
{
"word": "saḥ",
"meanings": [
"Lord Śiva"
]
},
{
"word": "aham",
"meanings": [
"I"
]
},
{
"word": "tat",
"meanings": [
"that incarnation"
]
},
{
"word": "draṣṭum icchāmi",
"meanings": [
"wish to see"
]
},
{
"word": "yat",
"meanings": [
"which"
]
},
{
"word": "te",
"meanings": [
"of You"
]
},
{
"word": "yoṣit-vapuḥ",
"meanings": [
"the body of a woman"
]
},
{
"word": "dhṛtam",
"meanings": [
"was accepted."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>My Lord, I have seen all kinds of incarnations You have exhibited by Your transcendental qualities, and now that You have appeared as a beautiful young woman, I wish to see that form of Your Lordship.</b>",
"purport": [
"When Lord Śiva approached Lord Viṣṇu, Lord Viṣṇu inquired about the purpose for Lord Śiva's coming there. Now Lord Śiva discloses his desire. He wanted to see the recent incarnation of Mohinī-mūrti, which Lord Viṣṇu had assumed to distribute the nectar generated from the churning of the ocean of milk."
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 8,
"chapter": 12,
"verse": 13,
"reference": "SB 8.12.13",
"devanagari": "येन सम्मोहिता दैत्याः पायिताश्चामृतं सुराः\nतद्दिदृक्षव आयाताः परं कौतूहलं हि नः",
"transliteration": "yena sammohitā daityāḥ\npāyitāś cāmṛtaṁ surāḥ\ntad didṛkṣava āyātāḥ\nparaṁ kautūhalaṁ hi naḥ",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "yena",
"meanings": [
"by such an incarnation"
]
},
{
"word": "sammohitāḥ",
"meanings": [
"were captivated"
]
},
{
"word": "daityāḥ",
"meanings": [
"the demons"
]
},
{
"word": "pāyitāḥ",
"meanings": [
"were fed"
]
},
{
"word": "ca",
"meanings": [
"also"
]
},
{
"word": "amṛtam",
"meanings": [
"nectar"
]
},
{
"word": "surāḥ",
"meanings": [
"the demigods"
]
},
{
"word": "tat",
"meanings": [
"that form"
]
},
{
"word": "didṛkṣavaḥ",
"meanings": [
"desiring to see"
]
},
{
"word": "āyātāḥ",
"meanings": [
"we have come here"
]
},
{
"word": "param",
"meanings": [
"very much"
]
},
{
"word": "kautūhalam",
"meanings": [
"great eagerness"
]
},
{
"word": "hi",
"meanings": [
"indeed"
]
},
{
"word": "naḥ",
"meanings": [
"of ourselves."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>My Lord, we have come here desiring to see that form of Your Lordship which You showed to the demons to captivate them completely and in this way enable the demigods to drink nectar. I am very eager to see that form.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 8,
"chapter": 12,
"verse": 14,
"reference": "SB 8.12.14",
"devanagari": "श्रीशुक उवाच\nएवम् अभ्यर्थितो विष्णुर्भगवान्शूलपाणिना\nप्रहस्य भावगम्भीरं गिरिशं प्रत्यभाषत",
"transliteration": "śrī-śuka uvāca\nevam abhyarthito viṣṇur\nbhagavān śūla-pāṇinā\nprahasya bhāva-gambhīraṁ\ngiriśaṁ pratyabhāṣata",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "śrī-śukaḥ uvāca",
"meanings": [
"Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said"
]
},
{
"word": "evam",
"meanings": [
"in this way"
]
},
{
"word": "abhyarthitaḥ",
"meanings": [
"being requested"
]
},
{
"word": "viṣṇuḥ bhagavān",
"meanings": [
"Lord Viṣṇu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead"
]
},
{
"word": "śūla-pāṇinā",
"meanings": [
"by Lord Śiva, who carries a trident in his hand"
]
},
{
"word": "prahasya",
"meanings": [
"laughing"
]
},
{
"word": "bhāva-gambhīram",
"meanings": [
"with serious gravity"
]
},
{
"word": "giriśam",
"meanings": [
"unto Lord Śiva"
]
},
{
"word": "pratyabhāṣata",
"meanings": [
"replied."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: </b><b>When Lord Viṣṇu was thus requested by Lord Śiva, who carries a trident in his hand, He smiled with gravity and replied to Lord Śiva as follows.</b>",
"purport": [
"The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Viṣṇu, is known as Yogeśvara. <i>Yatra yogeśvaraḥ kṛṣṇaḥ.</i> Mystic <i>yogīs</i> want to acquire some power by practicing the <i>yoga</i> system, but Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is known as the Supreme Lord of all mystic power. Lord Śiva wanted to see the Mohinī-mūrti, which was captivating the entire world, and Lord Viṣṇu was gravely thinking of how to captivate Lord Śiva also. Therefore the word <i>bhāva-gambhīram</i> is used here. The illusory, material energy is represented by Durgādevī, who is the wife of Girīśa, or Lord Śiva. Durgādevī could not captivate Lord Śiva's mind, but now that Lord Śiva wanted to see Lord Viṣṇu's feminine form, Lord Viṣṇu, by His mystic power, would assume a form that would captivate even Lord Śiva. Therefore Lord Viṣṇu was grave and at the same time was smiling."
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 8,
"chapter": 12,
"verse": 15,
"reference": "SB 8.12.15",
"devanagari": "श्रीभगवान् उवाच\nकौतूहलाय दैत्यानां योषिद्वेषो मया धृतः\nपश्यता सुरकार्याणि गते पीयूषभाजने",
"transliteration": "śrī-bhagavān uvāca\nkautūhalāya daityānāṁ\nyoṣid-veṣo mayā dhṛtaḥ\npaśyatā sura-kāryāṇi\ngate pīyūṣa-bhājane",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "śrī-bhagavān uvāca",
"meanings": [
"the Supreme Personality of Godhead said"
]
},
{
"word": "kautūhalāya",
"meanings": [
"for the bewildering"
]
},
{
"word": "daityānām",
"meanings": [
"of the demons"
]
},
{
"word": "yoṣit-veṣaḥ",
"meanings": [
"the form of a beautiful woman"
]
},
{
"word": "mayā",
"meanings": [
"by Me"
]
},
{
"word": "dhṛtaḥ",
"meanings": [
"assumed"
]
},
{
"word": "paśyatā",
"meanings": [
"seeing that it is necessary for Me"
]
},
{
"word": "sura-kāryāṇi",
"meanings": [
"for executing the interests of the demigods"
]
},
{
"word": "gate",
"meanings": [
"having been taken away"
]
},
{
"word": "pīyūṣa-bhājane",
"meanings": [
"the jug of nectar."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>The Supreme Personality of Godhead said:</b><b> When the demons took away the jug of nectar, I assumed the form of a beautiful woman to bewilder them by directly cheating them and thus to act in the interest of the demigods.</b>",
"purport": [
"When the Supreme Personality of Godhead assumed the form of the beautiful woman Mohinī-mūrti, the demons were certainly captivated, but the demigods present were not. In other words, those who maintain a demoniac mentality are bewildered by the beauty of a woman, but those who are advanced in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, or even those on the platform of goodness, are not bewildered. The Supreme Personality of Godhead knew that because Lord Śiva is not an ordinary person, he cannot be bewildered even by the most beautiful woman. Cupid himself tried to invoke Lord Śiva's lusty desires in the presence of Pārvatī, but Lord Śiva was never agitated. Rather, the blazing fire from Lord Śiva's eyes turned Cupid to ashes. Therefore, Lord Viṣṇu had to think twice about what kind of beautiful form would bewilder even Lord Śiva. Consequently He was smiling gravely, as stated in the previous verse (<i>prahasya bhāva-gambhīram</i>). A beautiful woman generally cannot induce Lord Śiva to be lusty, but Lord Viṣṇu was considering whether there was any form of woman who could enchant him."
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 8,
"chapter": 12,
"verse": 16,
"reference": "SB 8.12.16",
"devanagari": "तत्ते ऽहं दर्शयिष्यामि दिदृक्षोः सुरसत्तम\nकामिनां बहु मन्तव्यं संकल्पप्रभवोदयम्",
"transliteration": "tat te 'haṁ darśayiṣyāmi\ndidṛkṣoḥ sura-sattama\nkāmināṁ bahu mantavyaṁ\nsaṅkalpa-prabhavodayam",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "tat",
"meanings": [
"that"
]
},
{
"word": "te",
"meanings": [
"unto you"
]
},
{
"word": "aham",
"meanings": [
"I"
]
},
{
"word": "darśayiṣyāmi",
"meanings": [
"shall show"
]
},
{
"word": "didṛkṣoḥ",
"meanings": [
"desirous of seeing"
]
},
{
"word": "sura-sattama",
"meanings": [
"O best of the demigods"
]
},
{
"word": "kāminām",
"meanings": [
"of persons who are very lusty"
]
},
{
"word": "bahu",
"meanings": [
"very much"
]
},
{
"word": "mantavyam",
"meanings": [
"an object of adoration"
]
},
{
"word": "saṅkalpa",
"meanings": [
"lusty desires"
]
},
{
"word": "prabhava-udayam",
"meanings": [
"causing to be strongly aroused."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>O best of the demigods, I shall now show you My form that is very much appreciated by those who are lusty. Since you want to see that form, I shall reveal it in your presence.</b>",
"purport": [
"Lord Śiva's desiring to see Lord Viṣṇu reveal the most attractive and beautiful form of a woman was certainly a joking affair. Lord Śiva knew that he could not be agitated by any so-called beautiful woman. \"The Daityas may have been bewildered,\" he thought, \"but since even the demigods could not be agitated, what to speak of me, who am the best of all the demigods?\" However, because Lord Śiva wanted to see Lord Viṣṇu's form as a woman, Lord Viṣṇu decided to impersonate a woman and show him a form that would immediately put him in an ocean of lusty desires. In effect, therefore, Lord Viṣṇu told Lord Śiva, \"I will show you My form as a woman, and if you become agitated by lusty desires, do not blame Me.\" The attractive features of a woman are appreciated by those who are affected by lusty desires, but those who are above such desires, who are on the platform of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, are very difficult to bewilder. Nonetheless, by the supreme desire of the Personality of Godhead, everything can be done. This was to be a test of whether Lord Śiva could remain unagitated."
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 8,
"chapter": 12,
"verse": 17,
"reference": "SB 8.12.17",
"devanagari": "श्रीशुक उवाच\nइति ब्रुवाणो भगवांस्तत्रैवान्तरधीयत\nसर्वतश्चार्यंश्चक्षुर्भव आस्ते सहोमया",
"transliteration": "śrī-śuka uvāca\niti bruvāṇo bhagavāṁs\ntatraivāntaradhīyata\nsarvataś cāryaṁś cakṣur\nbhava āste sahomayā",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "śrī-śukaḥ uvāca",
"meanings": [
"Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said"
]
},
{
"word": "iti",
"meanings": [
"thus"
]
},
{
"word": "bruvāṇaḥ",
"meanings": [
"while speaking"
]
},
{
"word": "bhagavān",
"meanings": [
"Lord Viṣṇu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead"
]
},
{
"word": "tatra",
"meanings": [
"there"
]
},
{
"word": "eva",
"meanings": [
"immediately"
]
},
{
"word": "antaradhīyata",
"meanings": [
"disappeared from the vision of Lord Śiva and his associates"
]
},
{
"word": "sarvataḥ",
"meanings": [
"everywhere"
]
},
{
"word": "cārayan",
"meanings": [
"moving"
]
},
{
"word": "cakṣuḥ",
"meanings": [
"the eyes"
]
},
{
"word": "bhavaḥ",
"meanings": [
"Lord Śiva"
]
},
{
"word": "āste",
"meanings": [
"remained"
]
},
{
"word": "saha-umayā",
"meanings": [
"with his wife, Umā."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued:</b><b> After speaking in this way, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Viṣṇu, immediately disappeared, and Lord Śiva remained there with Umā, looking for Him all around with moving eyes.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 8,
"chapter": 12,
"verse": 18,
"reference": "SB 8.12.18",
"devanagari": "ततो ददर्शोपवने वरस्त्रियं विचित्रपुष्पारुणपल्लवद्रुमे\nविक्रीडतीं कन्दुकलीलया लसद्दुकूलपर्यस्तनितम्बमेखलाम्",
"transliteration": "tato dadarśopavane vara-striyaṁ\nvicitra-puṣpāruṇa-pallava-drume\nvikrīḍatīṁ kanduka-līlayā lasad-\ndukūla-paryasta-nitamba-mekhalām",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "tataḥ",
"meanings": [
"thereafter"
]
},
{
"word": "dadarśa",
"meanings": [
"Lord Śiva saw"
]
},
{
"word": "upavane",
"meanings": [
"in a nice forest"
]
},
{
"word": "vara-striyam",
"meanings": [
"a very beautiful woman"
]
},
{
"word": "vicitra",
"meanings": [
"of many varieties"
]
},
{
"word": "puṣpa",
"meanings": [
"flowers"
]
},
{
"word": "aruṇa",
"meanings": [
"pink"
]
},
{
"word": "pallava",
"meanings": [
"leaves"
]
},
{
"word": "drume",
"meanings": [
"in the midst of the trees"
]
},
{
"word": "vikrīḍatīm",
"meanings": [
"engaged in playing"
]
},
{
"word": "kanduka",
"meanings": [
"with a ball"
]
},
{
"word": "līlayā",
"meanings": [
"by pastimes of playing"
]
},
{
"word": "lasat",
"meanings": [
"shining"
]
},
{
"word": "dukūla",
"meanings": [
"by a sari"
]
},
{
"word": "paryasta",
"meanings": [
"covered"
]
},
{
"word": "nitamba",
"meanings": [
"on her hips"
]
},
{
"word": "mekhalām",
"meanings": [
"dressed with a belt."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>Thereafter, in a nice forest nearby, full of trees with reddish-pink leaves and varieties of flowers, Lord Śiva saw a beautiful woman playing with a ball. Her hips were covered with a shining sari and ornamented with a belt.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 8,
"chapter": 12,
"verse": 19,
"reference": "SB 8.12.19",
"devanagari": "आवर्तनोद्वर्तनकम्पितस्तन प्रकृष्टहारोरुभरैः पदे पदे\nप्रभज्यमानाम् इव मध्यतश्चलत्पदप्रवालं नयतीं ततस्ततः",
"transliteration": "āvartanodvartana-kampita-stana-\nprakṛṣṭa-hāroru-bharaiḥ pade pade\nprabhajyamānām iva madhyataś calat-\npada-pravālaṁ nayatīṁ tatas tataḥ",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "āvartana",
"meanings": [
"by the falling down"
]
},
{
"word": "udvartana",
"meanings": [
"and springing up"
]
},
{
"word": "kampita",
"meanings": [
"trembling"
]
},
{
"word": "stana",
"meanings": [
"of the two breasts"
]
},
{
"word": "prakṛṣṭa",
"meanings": [
"beautiful"
]
},
{
"word": "hāra",
"meanings": [
"and of garlands"
]
},
{
"word": "uru-bharaiḥ",
"meanings": [
"because of the heavy load"
]
},
{
"word": "pade pade",
"meanings": [
"at every step"
]
},
{
"word": "prabhajyamānām iva",
"meanings": [
"as if breaking"
]
},
{
"word": "madhyataḥ",
"meanings": [
"in the middle portion of the body"
]
},
{
"word": "calat",
"meanings": [
"moving like that"
]
},
{
"word": "pada-pravālam",
"meanings": [
"feet reddish like coral"
]
},
{
"word": "nayatīm",
"meanings": [
"moving"
]
},
{
"word": "tataḥ tataḥ",
"meanings": [
"here and there."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>Because the ball was falling down and bouncing up, as She played with it Her breasts trembled, and because of the weight of those breasts and Her heavy flower garlands, Her waist appeared to be all but breaking at every step, as Her two soft feet, which were reddish like coral, moved here and there.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 8,
"chapter": 12,
"verse": 20,
"reference": "SB 8.12.20",
"devanagari": "दिक्षु भ्रमत्कन्दुकचापलैर्भृशं प्रोद्विग्नतारायतलोललोचनाम्\nस्वकर्णविभ्राजितकुण्डलोल्लसत्कपोलनीलालकमण्डिताननाम्",
"transliteration": "dikṣu bhramat-kanduka-cāpalair bhṛśaṁ\nprodvigna-tārāyata-lola-locanām\nsva-karṇa-vibhrājita-kuṇḍalollasat-\nkapola-nīlālaka-maṇḍitānanām",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "dikṣu",
"meanings": [
"in all directions"
]
},
{
"word": "bhramat",
"meanings": [
"moving"
]
},
{
"word": "kanduka",
"meanings": [
"of the ball"
]
},
{
"word": "cāpalaiḥ",
"meanings": [
"restlessness"
]
},
{
"word": "bhṛśam",
"meanings": [
"now and then"
]
},
{
"word": "prodvigna",
"meanings": [
"full of anxieties"
]
},
{
"word": "tāra",
"meanings": [
"eyes"
]
},
{
"word": "āyata",
"meanings": [
"broad"
]
},
{
"word": "lola",
"meanings": [
"restless"
]
},
{
"word": "locanām",
"meanings": [
"with such eyes"
]
},
{
"word": "sva-karṇa",
"meanings": [
"on Her own two ears"
]
},
{
"word": "vibhrājita",
"meanings": [
"illuminating"
]
},
{
"word": "kuṇḍala",
"meanings": [
"earrings"
]
},
{
"word": "ullasat",
"meanings": [
"shining"
]
},
{
"word": "kapola",
"meanings": [
"cheeks"
]
},
{
"word": "nīla",
"meanings": [
"bluish"
]
},
{
"word": "alaka",
"meanings": [
"with hair"
]
},
{
"word": "maṇḍita",
"meanings": [
"was decorated"
]
},
{
"word": "ānanām",
"meanings": [
"face."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>The woman's face was decorated by broad, beautiful, restless eyes, which moved as the ball bounced here and there from Her hand. The two brilliant earrings on Her ears decorated Her shining cheeks like bluish reflections, and the hair scattered on Her face made Her even more beautiful to see.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 8,
"chapter": 12,
"verse": 21,
"reference": "SB 8.12.21",
"devanagari": "श्लथद्दुकूलं कबरीं च विच्युतां सन्नह्यतीं वामकरेण वल्गुना\nविनिघ्नतीम् अन्यकरेण कन्दुकं विमोहयन्तीं जगदात्ममायया",
"transliteration": "ślathad dukūlaṁ kabarīṁ ca vicyutāṁ\nsannahyatīṁ vāma-kareṇa valgunā\nvinighnatīm anya-kareṇa kandukaṁ\nvimohayantīṁ jagad-ātma-māyayā",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "ślathat",
"meanings": [
"slipping or slackening"
]
},
{
"word": "dukūlam",
"meanings": [
"the sari"
]
},
{
"word": "kabarīm ca",
"meanings": [
"and the hair on the head"
]
},
{
"word": "vicyutām",
"meanings": [
"being slackened and scattered"
]
},
{
"word": "sannahyatīm",
"meanings": [
"trying to bind"
]
},
{
"word": "vāma-kareṇa",
"meanings": [
"with the left hand"
]
},
{
"word": "valgunā",
"meanings": [
"very beautifully attractive"
]
},
{
"word": "vinighnatīm",
"meanings": [
"striking"
]
},
{
"word": "anya-kareṇa",
"meanings": [
"with the right hand"
]
},
{
"word": "kandukam",
"meanings": [
"the ball"
]
},
{
"word": "vimohayantīm",
"meanings": [
"in this way captivating everyone"
]
},
{
"word": "jagat",
"meanings": [
"the whole world"
]
},
{
"word": "ātma-māyayā",
"meanings": [
"by the spiritual potency, the internal energy."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>As She played with the ball, the sari covering Her body became loose, and Her hair scattered. She tried to bind Her hair with Her beautiful left hand, and at the same time She played with the ball by striking it with Her right hand. This was so attractive that the Supreme Lord, by His internal potency, in this way captivated everyone.</b>",
"purport": [
"In <i>Bhagavad-gītā</i> (7.14) it is said, <i>daivī hy eṣā guṇamayī mama māyā duratyayā:</i> the external potency of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is extremely strong. Indeed, everyone is fully captivated by her activities. Lord Śambhu (Śiva) was not to be captivated by the external potency, but because Lord Viṣṇu wanted to captivate Him also, He exhibited His internal potency to act the way that His external potency acts to captivate ordinary living entities. Lord Viṣṇu can captivate anyone, even such a strong personality as Lord Śambhu."
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 8,
"chapter": 12,
"verse": 22,
"reference": "SB 8.12.22",
"devanagari": "तां वीक्ष्य देव इति कन्दुकलीलयेषद्व्रीडास्फुटस्मितविसृष्टकटाक्षमुष्टः\nस्त्रीप्रेक्षणप्रतिसमीक्षणविह्वलात्मा नात्मानम् अन्तिक उमां स्वगणांश्च वेद",
"transliteration": "tāṁ vīkṣya deva iti kanduka-līlayeṣad-\nvrīḍāsphuṭa-smita-visṛṣṭa-kaṭākṣa-muṣṭaḥ\nstrī-prekṣaṇa-pratisamīkṣaṇa-vihvalātmā\nnātmānam antika umāṁ sva-gaṇāṁś ca veda",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "tām",
"meanings": [
"Her"
]
},
{
"word": "vīkṣya",
"meanings": [
"after observing"
]
},
{
"word": "devaḥ",
"meanings": [
"Lord Śambhu"
]
},
{
"word": "iti",
"meanings": [
"in this way"
]
},
{
"word": "kanduka-līlayā",
"meanings": [
"by playing with the ball"
]
},
{
"word": "īṣat",
"meanings": [
"slight"
]
},
{
"word": "vrīḍā",
"meanings": [
"by bashfulness"
]
},
{
"word": "asphuṭa",
"meanings": [
"not very distinct"
]
},
{
"word": "smita",
"meanings": [
"with smiling"
]
},
{
"word": "visṛṣṭa",
"meanings": [
"sent"
]
},
{
"word": "kaṭākṣa-muṣṭaḥ",
"meanings": [
"defeated by the glances"
]
},
{
"word": "strī-prekṣaṇa",
"meanings": [
"by glancing at that beautiful woman"
]
},
{
"word": "pratisamīkṣaṇa",
"meanings": [
"and by constantly being watched by Her"
]
},
{
"word": "vihvala-ātmā",
"meanings": [
"whose mind was agitated"
]
},
{
"word": "na",
"meanings": [
"not"
]
},
{
"word": "ātmānam",
"meanings": [
"himself"
]
},
{
"word": "antike",
"meanings": [
"(situated) nearby"
]
},
{
"word": "umām",
"meanings": [
"his wife, mother Umā"
]
},
{
"word": "sva-gaṇān ca",
"meanings": [
"and his associates"
]
},
{
"word": "veda",
"meanings": [
"Lord Śiva could understand."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>While Lord Śiva observed the beautiful woman playing with the ball, She sometimes glanced at him and slightly smiled in bashfulness. As he looked at the beautiful woman and She watched him, he forgot both himself and Umā, his most beautiful wife, as well as his associates nearby.</b>",
"purport": [
"The material bondage of this world is that a beautiful woman can captivate a handsome man and that a handsome man can captivate a beautiful woman. Such are the affairs that began when Lord Śiva observed the beautiful girl playing with the ball. In such activities, the influence of Cupid is very prominent. As both parties move their eyebrows and glance at one another, their lusty desires increase more and more. Such reciprocations of lusty desire took place between Lord Śiva and the beautiful woman, even though Umā and Lord Śiva's associates were by Lord Śiva's side. Such is the attraction between man and woman in the material world. Lord Śiva was supposed to be above all this attraction, but he was victimized by the captivating power of Lord Viṣṇu. Ṛṣabhadeva thus explains the nature of lusty attraction:",
"<i>puṁsaḥ striyā mithunī-bhāvam etaṁ<br/> tayor mitho hṛdaya-granthim āhuḥ<br/> ato gṛha-kṣetra-sutāpta-vittair<br/> janasya moho 'yam ahaṁ mameti</i>",
"\"The attraction between male and female is the basic principle of material existence. On the basis of this misconception, which ties together the hearts of the male and female, one becomes attracted to his body, home, property, children, relatives and wealth. In this way one increases life's illusions and thinks in terms of 'I and mine.' \" (<i>Bhāg.</i> 5.5.8) When a man and woman exchange feelings of lust, both of them are victimized, and thus they are bound to this material world in various ways."
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 8,
"chapter": 12,
"verse": 23,
"reference": "SB 8.12.23",
"devanagari": "तस्याः कराग्रात्स तु कन्दुको यदा गतो विदूरं तम् अनुव्रजत्स्त्रियाः\nवासः ससूत्रं लघु मारुतो ऽहरद्भवस्य देवस्य किलानुपश्यतः",
"transliteration": "tasyāḥ karāgrāt sa tu kanduko yadā\ngato vidūraṁ tam anuvrajat-striyāḥ\nvāsaḥ sasūtraṁ laghu māruto 'harad\nbhavasya devasya kilānupaśyataḥ",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "tasyāḥ",
"meanings": [
"of the beautiful woman"
]
},
{
"word": "kara-agrāt",
"meanings": [
"from the hand"
]
},
{
"word": "saḥ",
"meanings": [
"that"
]
},
{
"word": "tu",
"meanings": [
"but"
]
},
{
"word": "kandukaḥ",
"meanings": [
"the ball"
]
},
{
"word": "yadā",
"meanings": [
"when"
]
},
{
"word": "gataḥ",
"meanings": [
"had gone"
]
},
{
"word": "vidūram",
"meanings": [
"far off"
]
},
{
"word": "tam",
"meanings": [
"that ball"
]
},
{
"word": "anuvrajat",
"meanings": [
"began to follow"
]
},
{
"word": "striyāḥ",
"meanings": [
"of that woman"
]
},
{
"word": "vāsaḥ",
"meanings": [
"the covering dress"
]
},
{
"word": "sa-sūtram",
"meanings": [
"with the belt"
]
},
{
"word": "laghu",
"meanings": [
"because of being very fine"
]
},
{
"word": "mārutaḥ",
"meanings": [
"the breeze"
]
},
{
"word": "aharat",
"meanings": [
"blew away"
]
},
{
"word": "bhavasya",
"meanings": [
"while Lord Śiva"
]
},
{
"word": "devasya",
"meanings": [
"the chief demigod"
]
},
{
"word": "kila",
"meanings": [
"indeed"
]
},
{
"word": "anupaśyataḥ",
"meanings": [
"was always looking."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>When the ball leaped from Her hand and fell at a distance, the woman began to follow it, but as Lord Śiva observed these activities, a breeze suddenly blew away the fine dress and belt that covered her.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 8,
"chapter": 12,
"verse": 24,
"reference": "SB 8.12.24",
"devanagari": "एवं तां रुचिरापांगीं दर्शनीयां मनोरमाम्\nदृष्ट्वा तस्यां मनश्चक्रे विषज्जन्त्यां भवः किल",
"transliteration": "evaṁ tāṁ rucirāpāṅgīṁ\ndarśanīyāṁ manoramām\ndṛṣṭvā tasyāṁ manaś cakre\nviṣajjantyāṁ bhavaḥ kila",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "evam",
"meanings": [
"in this way"
]
},
{
"word": "tām",
"meanings": [
"Her"
]
},
{
"word": "rucira-apāṅgīm",
"meanings": [
"possessing all attractive features"
]
},
{
"word": "darśanīyām",
"meanings": [
"pleasing to see"
]
},
{
"word": "manoramām",
"meanings": [
"beautifully formed"
]
},
{
"word": "dṛṣṭvā",
"meanings": [
"seeing"
]
},
{
"word": "tasyām",
"meanings": [
"upon Her"
]
},
{
"word": "manaḥ cakre",
"meanings": [
"thought"
]
},
{
"word": "viṣajjantyām",
"meanings": [
"to be attracted by him"
]
},
{
"word": "bhavaḥ",
"meanings": [
"Lord Śiva"
]
},
{
"word": "kila",
"meanings": [
"indeed."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>Thus Lord Śiva saw the woman, every part of whose body was beautifully formed, and the beautiful woman also looked at him. Therefore, thinking that She was attracted to him, Lord Śiva became very much attracted to Her.</b>",
"purport": [
"Lord Śiva was observing every part of the woman's body, and She was also glancing at him with restless eyes. Thus Śiva thought that She was also attracted to him, and now he wanted to touch Her."
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 8,
"chapter": 12,
"verse": 25,
"reference": "SB 8.12.25",
"devanagari": "तयापहृतविज्ञानस्तत्कृतस्मरविह्वलः\nभवान्या अपि पश्यन्त्या गतह्रीस्तत्पदं ययौ",
"transliteration": "tayāpahṛta-vijñānas\ntat-kṛta-smara-vihvalaḥ\nbhavānyā api paśyantyā\ngata-hrīs tat-padaṁ yayau",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "tayā",
"meanings": [
"by Her"
]
},
{
"word": "apahṛta",
"meanings": [
"taken away"
]
},
{
"word": "vijñānaḥ",
"meanings": [
"good sense"
]
},
{
"word": "tat-kṛta",
"meanings": [
"done by Her"
]
},
{
"word": "smara",
"meanings": [
"by the smiling"
]
},
{
"word": "vihvalaḥ",
"meanings": [
"having become mad for Her"
]
},
{
"word": "bhavānyāḥ",
"meanings": [
"while Bhavānī, the wife of Lord Śiva"
]
},
{
"word": "api",
"meanings": [
"although"
]
},
{
"word": "paśyantyāḥ",
"meanings": [
"was seeing all these incidents"
]
},
{
"word": "gata-hrīḥ",
"meanings": [
"bereft of all shame"
]
},
{
"word": "tat-padam",
"meanings": [
"to the place where She was situated"
]
},
{
"word": "yayau",
"meanings": [
"went."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>Lord Śiva, his good sense taken away by the woman because of lusty desires to enjoy with Her, became so mad for Her that even in the presence of Bhavānī he did not hesitate to approach Her.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 8,
"chapter": 12,
"verse": 26,
"reference": "SB 8.12.26",
"devanagari": "सा तम् आयान्तम् आलोक्य विवस्त्रा व्रीडिता भृशम्\nनिलीयमाना वृक्षेषु हसन्ती नान्वतिष्ठत",
"transliteration": "sā tam āyāntam ālokya\nvivastrā vrīḍitā bhṛśam\nnilīyamānā vṛkṣeṣu\nhasantī nānvatiṣṭhata",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "sā",
"meanings": [
"that woman"
]
},
{
"word": "tam",
"meanings": [
"Lord Śiva"
]
},
{
"word": "āyāntam",
"meanings": [
"who was coming near"
]
},
{
"word": "ālokya",
"meanings": [
"seeing"
]
},
{
"word": "vivastrā",
"meanings": [
"She was naked"
]
},
{
"word": "vrīḍitā",
"meanings": [
"very bashful"
]
},
{
"word": "bhṛśam",
"meanings": [
"so much"
]
},
{
"word": "nilīyamānā",
"meanings": [
"was hiding"
]
},
{
"word": "vṛkṣeṣu",
"meanings": [
"among the trees"
]
},
{
"word": "hasantī",
"meanings": [
"smiling"
]
},
{
"word": "na",
"meanings": [
"not"
]
},
{
"word": "anvatiṣṭhata",
"meanings": [
"stood in one place."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>The beautiful woman was already naked, and when She saw Lord Śiva coming toward Her, She became extremely bashful. Thus She kept smiling, but She hid Herself among the trees and did not stand in one place.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 8,
"chapter": 12,
"verse": 27,
"reference": "SB 8.12.27",
"devanagari": "ताम् अन्वगच्छद्भगवान्भवः प्रमुषितेन्द्रियः\nकामस्य च वशं नीतः करेणुम् इव यूथपः",
"transliteration": "tām anvagacchad bhagavān\nbhavaḥ pramuṣitendriyaḥ\nkāmasya ca vaśaṁ nītaḥ\nkareṇum iva yūthapaḥ",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "tām",
"meanings": [
"Her"
]
},
{
"word": "anvagacchat",
"meanings": [
"followed"
]
},
{
"word": "bhagavān",
"meanings": [
"Lord Śiva"
]
},
{
"word": "bhavaḥ",
"meanings": [
"known as Bhava"
]
},
{
"word": "pramuṣita-indriyaḥ",
"meanings": [
"whose senses were agitated"
]
},
{
"word": "kāmasya",
"meanings": [
"of lusty desires"
]
},
{
"word": "ca",
"meanings": [
"and"
]
},
{
"word": "vaśam",
"meanings": [
"victimized"
]
},
{
"word": "nītaḥ",
"meanings": [
"having become"
]
},
{
"word": "kareṇum",
"meanings": [
"a female elephant"
]
},
{
"word": "iva",
"meanings": [
"just as"
]
},
{
"word": "yūthapaḥ",
"meanings": [
"a male elephant."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>His senses being agitated, Lord Śiva, victimized by lusty desires, began to follow Her, just as a lusty elephant follows a she-elephant.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 8,
"chapter": 12,
"verse": 28,
"reference": "SB 8.12.28",
"devanagari": "सो ऽनुव्रज्यातिवेगेन गृहीत्वानिच्छतीं स्त्रियम्\nकेशबन्ध उपानीय बाहुभ्यां परिषस्वजे",
"transliteration": "so 'nuvrajyātivegena\ngṛhītvānicchatīṁ striyam\nkeśa-bandha upānīya\nbāhubhyāṁ pariṣasvaje",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "saḥ",
"meanings": [
"Lord Śiva"
]
},
{
"word": "anuvrajya",
"meanings": [
"following Her"
]
},
{
"word": "ati-vegena",
"meanings": [
"with great speed"
]
},
{
"word": "gṛhītvā",
"meanings": [
"catching"
]
},
{
"word": "anicchatīm",
"meanings": [
"although She was not willing to be caught"
]
},
{
"word": "striyam",
"meanings": [
"the woman"
]
},
{
"word": "keśa-bandhe",
"meanings": [
"on the cluster of hair"
]
},
{
"word": "upānīya",
"meanings": [
"dragging Her near"
]
},
{
"word": "bāhubhyām",
"meanings": [
"with his arms"
]
},
{
"word": "pariṣasvaje",
"meanings": [
"embraced Her."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>After following Her with great speed, Lord Śiva caught Her by the braid of Her hair and dragged Her near him. Although She was unwilling, he embraced Her with his arms.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 8,
"chapter": 12,
"verse": 29,
"reference": "SB 8.12.29-30",
"devanagari": "सोपगूढा भगवता करिणा करिणी यथा\nइतस्ततः प्रसर्पन्ती विप्रकीर्णशिरोरुहा\nआत्मानं मोचयित्वांग सुरर्षभभुजान्तरात्\nप्राद्रवत्सा पृथुश्रोणी माया देवविनिर्मिता",
"transliteration": "sopagūḍhā bhagavatā\nkariṇā kariṇī yathā\nitas tataḥ prasarpantī\nviprakīrṇa-śiroruhā\nātmānaṁ mocayitvāṅga\nsurarṣabha-bhujāntarāt\nprādravat sā pṛthu-śroṇī\nmāyā deva-vinirmitā",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "sā",
"meanings": [
"the woman"
]
},
{
"word": "upagūḍhā",
"meanings": [
"being captured and embraced"
]
},
{
"word": "bhagavatā",
"meanings": [
"by Lord Śiva"
]
},
{
"word": "kariṇā",
"meanings": [
"by a male elephant"
]
},
{
"word": "kariṇī",
"meanings": [
"a she-elephant"
]
},
{
"word": "yathā",
"meanings": [
"as"
]
},
{
"word": "itaḥ tataḥ",
"meanings": [
"here and there"
]
},
{
"word": "prasarpantī",
"meanings": [
"swirling like a snake"
]
},
{
"word": "viprakīrṇa",
"meanings": [
"scattered"
]
},
{
"word": "śiroruhā",
"meanings": [
"all the hair on Her head"
]
},
{
"word": "ātmānam",
"meanings": [
"Herself"
]
},
{
"word": "mocayitvā",
"meanings": [
"releasing"
]
},
{
"word": "aṅga",
"meanings": [
"O King"
]
},
{
"word": "sura-ṛṣabha",
"meanings": [
"of the best of the demigods (Lord Śiva)"
]
},
{
"word": "bhuja-antarāt",
"meanings": [
"from the entanglement in the midst of the arms"
]
},
{
"word": "prādravat",
"meanings": [
"began to run very fast"
]
},
{
"word": "sā",
"meanings": [
"She"
]
},
{
"word": "pṛthu-śroṇī",
"meanings": [
"bearing very large hips"
]
},
{
"word": "māyā",
"meanings": [
"internal potency"
]
},
{
"word": "deva-vinirmitā",
"meanings": [
"exhibited by the Supreme Personality of Godhead."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>Being embraced by Lord Śiva like a female elephant embraced by a male, the woman, whose hair was scattered, swirled like a snake. O King, this woman, who had large, high hips, was a woman of yogamāyā presented by the Supreme Personality of Godhead. She released Herself somehow or other from the fond embrace of Lord Śiva's arms and ran away.</b>",
"purport": [],
"verse_end": 30
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 8,
"chapter": 12,
"verse": 31,
"reference": "SB 8.12.31",
"devanagari": "तस्यासौ पदवीं रुद्रो विष्णोर् अद्भुतकर्मणः\nप्रत्यपद्यत कामेन वैरिणेव विनिर्जितः",
"transliteration": "tasyāsau padavīṁ rudro\nviṣṇor adbhuta-karmaṇaḥ\npratyapadyata kāmena\nvairiṇeva vinirjitaḥ",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "tasya",
"meanings": [
"of He who is the Supreme Lord"
]
},
{
"word": "asau",
"meanings": [
"Lord Śiva"
]
},
{
"word": "padavīm",
"meanings": [
"the place"
]
},
{
"word": "rudraḥ",
"meanings": [
"Lord Śiva"
]
},
{
"word": "viṣṇoḥ",
"meanings": [
"of Lord Viṣṇu"
]
},
{
"word": "adbhuta-karmaṇaḥ",
"meanings": [
"of He who acts very wonderfully"
]
},
{
"word": "pratyapadyata",
"meanings": [
"began to follow"
]
},
{
"word": "kāmena",
"meanings": [
"by lusty desire"
]
},
{
"word": "vairiṇā iva",
"meanings": [
"as if by an enemy"
]
},
{
"word": "vinirjitaḥ",
"meanings": [
"being harassed."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>As if harassed by an enemy in the form of lusty desires, Lord Śiva followed the path of Lord Viṣṇu, who acts very wonderfully and who had taken the form of Mohinī.</b>",
"purport": [
"Lord Śiva cannot be victimized by <i>māyā.</i> Therefore it is to be understood that Lord Śiva was being thus harassed by Lord Viṣṇu's internal potency. Lord Viṣṇu can perform many wonderful activities through His various potencies.",
"<i>parāsya śaktir vividhaiva śrūyate<br/> svābhāvikī jñāna-bala-kriyā ca<br/> </i>(<i>Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad 6.8</i>)",
"The Supreme Lord has various potencies, by which He can act very efficiently. To do anything expertly, He doesn't even need to contemplate. Since Lord Śiva was being harassed by the woman, it is to be understood that this was being done not by a woman but by Lord Viṣṇu Himself."
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 8,
"chapter": 12,
"verse": 32,
"reference": "SB 8.12.32",
"devanagari": "तस्यानुधावतो रेतश्चस्कन्दामोघरेतसः\nशुष्मिणो यूथपस्येव वासिताम् अनुधावतः",
"transliteration": "tasyānudhāvato retaś\ncaskandāmogha-retasaḥ\nśuṣmiṇo yūthapasyeva\nvāsitām anudhāvataḥ",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "tasya",
"meanings": [
"of him (Lord Śiva)"
]
},
{
"word": "anudhāvataḥ",
"meanings": [
"who was following"
]
},
{
"word": "retaḥ",
"meanings": [
"the semen"
]
},
{
"word": "caskanda",
"meanings": [
"discharged"
]
},
{
"word": "amogha-retasaḥ",
"meanings": [
"of that person whose discharge of semen never goes in vain"
]
},
{
"word": "śuṣmiṇaḥ",
"meanings": [
"mad"
]
},
{
"word": "yūthapasya",
"meanings": [
"of a male elephant"
]
},
{
"word": "iva",
"meanings": [
"just like"
]
},
{
"word": "vāsitām",
"meanings": [
"to a female elephant able to conceive pregnancy"
]
},
{
"word": "anudhāvataḥ",
"meanings": [
"following."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>Just as a maddened bull elephant follows a female elephant who is able to conceive pregnancy, Lord Śiva followed the beautiful woman and discharged semen, even though his discharge of semen never goes in vain.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 8,
"chapter": 12,
"verse": 33,
"reference": "SB 8.12.33",
"devanagari": "यत्र यत्रापतन्मह्यां रेतस्तस्य महात्मनः\nतानि रूप्यस्य हेम्नश्च क्षेत्राण्य् आसन्महीपते",
"transliteration": "yatra yatrāpatan mahyāṁ\nretas tasya mahātmanaḥ\ntāni rūpyasya hemnaś ca\nkṣetrāṇy āsan mahī-pate",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "yatra",
"meanings": [
"wherever"
]
},
{
"word": "yatra",
"meanings": [
"and wherever"
]
},
{
"word": "apatat",
"meanings": [
"fell"
]
},
{
"word": "mahyām",
"meanings": [
"on the surface of the world"
]
},
{
"word": "retaḥ",
"meanings": [
"the semen"
]
},
{
"word": "tasya",
"meanings": [
"of him"
]
},
{
"word": "mahā-ātmanaḥ",
"meanings": [
"of the great personality (Lord Śiva)"
]
},
{
"word": "tāni",
"meanings": [
"all those places"
]
},
{
"word": "rūpyasya",
"meanings": [
"of silver"
]
},
{
"word": "hemnaḥ",
"meanings": [
"of gold"
]
},
{
"word": "ca",
"meanings": [
"and"
]
},
{
"word": "kṣetrāṇi",
"meanings": [
"mines"
]
},
{
"word": "āsan",
"meanings": [
"became"
]
},
{
"word": "mahī-pate",
"meanings": [
"O King."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>O King, wheresoever on the surface of the globe fell the semen of the great personality of Lord Śiva, mines of gold and silver later appeared.</b>",
"purport": [
"Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura comments that those who seek gold and silver can worship Lord Śiva for material opulences. Lord Śiva lives under a <i>bael</i> tree and does not even construct a house in which to dwell, but although he is apparently poverty-stricken, his devotees are sometimes opulently endowed with large quantities of silver and gold. Parīkṣit Mahārāja later asks about this, and Śukadeva Gosvāmī replies."
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 8,
"chapter": 12,
"verse": 34,
"reference": "SB 8.12.34",
"devanagari": "सरित्सरःसु शैलेषु वनेषूपवनेषु च\nयत्र क्व चासन्न् ऋषयस्तत्र सन्निहितो हरः",
"transliteration": "sarit-saraḥsu śaileṣu\nvaneṣūpavaneṣu ca\nyatra kva cāsann ṛṣayas\ntatra sannihito haraḥ",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "sarit",
"meanings": [
"near the shores of the rivers"
]
},
{
"word": "saraḥsu",
"meanings": [
"and near the lakes"
]
},
{
"word": "śaileṣu",
"meanings": [
"near the mountains"
]
},
{
"word": "vaneṣu",
"meanings": [
"in the forests"
]
},
{
"word": "upavaneṣu",
"meanings": [
"in the gardens or small forests"
]
},
{
"word": "ca",
"meanings": [
"also"
]
},
{
"word": "yatra",
"meanings": [
"wherever"
]
},
{
"word": "kva",
"meanings": [
"anywhere"
]
},
{
"word": "ca",
"meanings": [
"also"
]
},
{
"word": "āsan",
"meanings": [
"were exiting"
]
},
{
"word": "ṛṣayaḥ",
"meanings": [
"great sages"
]
},
{
"word": "tatra",
"meanings": [
"there"
]
},
{
"word": "sannihitaḥ",
"meanings": [
"was present"
]
},
{
"word": "haraḥ",
"meanings": [
"Lord Śiva."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>Following Mohinī, Lord Śiva went everywhere—near the shores of the rivers and lakes, near the mountains, near the forests, near the gardens, and wherever there lived great sages.</b>",
"purport": [
"Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura remarks that Mohinī-mūrti dragged Lord Śiva to so many places, especially to where the great sages lived, to instruct the sages that their Lord Śiva had become mad for a beautiful woman. Thus although they were all great sages and saintly persons, they should not think themselves free, but should remain extremely cautious about beautiful women. No one should think himself liberated in the presence of a beautiful woman. The <i>śāstras</i> enjoin:",
"<i>mātrā svasrā duhitrā vā<br/> nāviviktāsano bhavet<br/> balavān indriya-grāmo<br/> vidvāṁsam api karṣati</i>",
"\"One should not stay in a solitary place with a woman, even if she be his mother, sister or daughter, for the senses are so uncontrollably powerful that in the presence of a woman one may become agitated, even if he is very learned and advanced.\" (<i>Bhāg. </i>9.19.17)"
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 8,
"chapter": 12,
"verse": 35,
"reference": "SB 8.12.35",
"devanagari": "स्कन्ने रेतसि सो ऽपश्यद् आत्मानं देवमायया\nजडीकृतं नृपश्रेष्ठ सन्न्यवर्तत कश्मलात्",
"transliteration": "skanne retasi so 'paśyad\nātmānaṁ deva-māyayā\njaḍīkṛtaṁ nṛpa-śreṣṭha\nsannyavartata kaśmalāt",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "skanne",
"meanings": [
"when fully discharged"
]
},
{
"word": "retasi",
"meanings": [
"the semen"
]
},
{
"word": "saḥ",
"meanings": [
"Lord Śiva"
]
},
{
"word": "apaśyat",
"meanings": [
"saw"
]
},
{
"word": "ātmānam",
"meanings": [
"his own self"
]
},
{
"word": "deva-māyayā",
"meanings": [
"by the māyā of the Supreme Personality of Godhead"
]
},
{
"word": "jaḍīkṛtam",
"meanings": [
"had become victimized as a fool"
]
},
{
"word": "nṛpa-śreṣṭha",
"meanings": [
"O best of kings (Mahārāja Parīkṣit)"
]
},
{
"word": "sannyavartata",
"meanings": [
"restrained himself further"
]
},
{
"word": "kaśmalāt",
"meanings": [
"from illusion."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>O Mahārāja Parīkṣit, best of kings, when Lord Śiva had fully discharged semen, he could see how he himself had been victimized by the illusion created by the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Thus he restrained himself from any further māyā.</b>",
"purport": [
"Once one is agitated by lusty desires upon seeing a woman, those desires increase more and more, but when semen is discharged in the act of sex, the lusty desires diminish. The same principle acted upon Lord Śiva. He was allured by the beautiful woman Mohinī-mūrti, but when his semen had been fully discharged, he came to his senses and realized how he had been victimized as soon as he saw the woman in the forest. If one is trained to protect his semen by observing celibacy, naturally he is not attracted by the beauty of a woman. If one can remain a <i>brahmacārī,</i> he saves himself so much trouble in material existence. Material existence means enjoying the pleasure of sexual intercourse (<i>yan maithunādi-gṛhamedhi-sukham</i>). If one is educated about sex life and is trained to protect his semen, he is saved from the danger of material existence."
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 8,
"chapter": 12,
"verse": 36,
"reference": "SB 8.12.36",
"devanagari": "अथावगतमाहात्म्य आत्मनो जगदात्मनः\nअपरिज्ञेयवीर्यस्य न मेने तद् उ हाद्भुतम्",
"transliteration": "athāvagata-māhātmya\nātmano jagad-ātmanaḥ\naparijñeya-vīryasya\nna mene tad u hādbhutam",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "atha",
"meanings": [
"thus"
]
},
{
"word": "avagata",
"meanings": [
"being fully convinced about"
]
},
{
"word": "māhātmyaḥ",
"meanings": [
"the greatness"
]
},
{
"word": "ātmanaḥ",
"meanings": [
"of himself"
]
},
{
"word": "jagat-ātmanaḥ",
"meanings": [
"and of the Supreme Personality of Godhead"
]
},
{
"word": "aparijñeya-vīryasya",
"meanings": [
"who has unlimited potency"
]
},
{
"word": "na",
"meanings": [
"not"
]
},
{
"word": "mene",
"meanings": [
"did consider"
]
},
{
"word": "tat",
"meanings": [
"the miraculous activities of the Supreme Personality of Godhead in bewildering him"
]
},
{
"word": "u ha",
"meanings": [
"certainly"
]
},
{
"word": "adbhutam",
"meanings": [
"as wonderful."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>Thus Lord Śiva could understand his position and that of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who has unlimited potencies. Having reached this understanding, he was not at all surprised by the wonderful way Lord Viṣṇu had acted upon him.</b>",
"purport": [
"The Supreme Personality of Godhead is known as all-powerful because no one can excel Him in any activity. In <i>Bhagavad-gītā</i> (7.7) the Lord says, <i>mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat kiñcid asti dhanañjaya:</i> \"O conqueror of wealth, there is no truth superior to Me.\" No one can equal the Lord or be greater than Him, for He is the master of everyone. As stated in <i>Caitanya-caritāmṛta</i> (<i>Ādi</i> 5.142), <i>ekale īśvara kṛṣṇa, āra saba bhṛtya.</i> The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, is the only master of everyone, including even Lord Śiva, what to speak of others. Lord Śiva was already aware of the supreme power of Lord Viṣṇu, but when he was actually put into bewilderment, he felt proud to have such an exalted master."
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 8,
"chapter": 12,
"verse": 37,
"reference": "SB 8.12.37",
"devanagari": "तम् अविक्लवम् अव्रीडम् आलक्ष्य मधुसूदनः\nउवाच परमप्रीतो बिभ्रत्स्वां पौरुषीं तनुम्",
"transliteration": "tam aviklavam avrīḍam\nālakṣya madhusūdanaḥ\nuvāca parama-prīto\nbibhrat svāṁ pauruṣīṁ tanum",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "tam",
"meanings": [
"him (Lord Śiva)"
]
},
{
"word": "aviklavam",
"meanings": [
"without being agitated by the incident that had taken place"
]
},
{
"word": "avrīḍam",
"meanings": [
"without being ashamed"
]
},
{
"word": "ālakṣya",
"meanings": [
"seeing"
]
},
{
"word": "madhu-sūdanaḥ",
"meanings": [
"the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is known as Madhusūdana, the killer of the demon Madhu"
]
},
{
"word": "uvāca",
"meanings": [
"said"
]
},
{
"word": "parama-prītaḥ",
"meanings": [
"being very pleased"
]
},
{
"word": "bibhrat",
"meanings": [
"assuming"
]
},
{
"word": "svām",
"meanings": [
"His own"
]
},
{
"word": "pauruṣīm",
"meanings": [
"original"
]
},
{
"word": "tanum",
"meanings": [
"form."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>Seeing Lord Śiva unagitated and unashamed, Lord Viṣṇu [Madhusūdana] was very pleased. Thus He resumed His original form and spoke as follows.</b>",
"purport": [
"Although Lord Śiva was aghast at the potency of Lord Viṣṇu, he did not feel ashamed. Rather, he was proud to be defeated by Lord Viṣṇu. Nothing is hidden from the Supreme Personality of Godhead, for He is in everyone's heart. Indeed, the Lord says in <i>Bhagavad-gītā</i> (15.15), <i>sarvasya cāhaṁ hṛdi sanniviṣṭo mattaḥ smṛtir jñānam apohanaṁ ca:</i> \"I am seated in everyone's heart, and from Me come remembrance, knowledge and forgetfulness.\" Whatever happened had taken place under the direction of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and therefore there was no cause to be sorry or ashamed. Although Lord Śiva is never defeated by anyone, when defeated by Lord Viṣṇu he felt proud that he had such an exalted and powerful master."
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 8,
"chapter": 12,
"verse": 38,
"reference": "SB 8.12.38",
"devanagari": "श्रीभगवान् उवाच\nदिष्ट्या त्वं विबुधश्रेष्ठ स्वां निष्ठाम् आत्मना स्थितः\nयन्मे स्त्रीरूपया स्वैरं मोहितो ऽप्य् अंग मायया",
"transliteration": "śrī-bhagavān uvāca\ndiṣṭyā tvaṁ vibudha-śreṣṭha\nsvāṁ niṣṭhām ātmanā sthitaḥ\nyan me strī-rūpayā svairaṁ\nmohito 'py aṅga māyayā",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "śrī-bhagavān uvāca",
"meanings": [
"the Supreme Personality of Godhead said"
]
},
{
"word": "diṣṭyā",
"meanings": [
"all auspiciousness"
]
},
{
"word": "tvam",
"meanings": [
"unto you"
]
},
{
"word": "vibudha-śreṣṭha",
"meanings": [
"O best of all the demigods"
]
},
{
"word": "svām",
"meanings": [
"in your own"
]
},
{
"word": "niṣṭhām",
"meanings": [
"fixed situation"
]
},
{
"word": "ātmanā",
"meanings": [
"of your own self"
]
},
{
"word": "sthitaḥ",
"meanings": [
"you are situated"
]
},
{
"word": "yat",
"meanings": [
"as"
]
},
{
"word": "me",
"meanings": [
"Mine"
]
},
{
"word": "strī-rūpayā",
"meanings": [
"appearance like a woman"
]
},
{
"word": "svairam",
"meanings": [
"sufficiently"
]
},
{
"word": "mohitaḥ",
"meanings": [
"enchanted"
]
},
{
"word": "api",
"meanings": [
"in spite of"
]
},
{
"word": "aṅga",
"meanings": [
"O Lord Śiva"
]
},
{
"word": "māyayā",
"meanings": [
"by My potency."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>The Supreme Personality of Godhead said:</b><b> O best of the demigods, although you have been amply harassed because of My potency in assuming the form of a woman, you are established in your position. Therefore, may all good fortune be upon you.</b>",
"purport": [
"Since Lord Śiva is the best of the demigods, he is the best of all devotees (<i>vaiṣṇavānāṁ yathā śambhuḥ</i>). His exemplary character was therefore praised by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who gave His benediction by saying, \"May all good fortune be upon you.\" When a devotee becomes a little proud, the Supreme Lord sometimes exhibits His supreme power to dissipate the devotee's misunderstanding. After being amply harassed by Lord Viṣṇu's potency, Lord Śiva resumed his normal, unagitated condition. This is the position of a devotee. A devotee should not be agitated under any circumstances, even in the worst reverses. As confirmed in <i>Bhagavad-gītā</i> (6.22), <i>yasmin sthito na duḥkhena guruṇāpi vicālyate:</i> because of his full faith in the Supreme Personality of Godhead, a devotee is never agitated, even in the greatest trials. This pridelessness is possible only for the first-class devotees, of whom Lord Śambhu is one."
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 8,
"chapter": 12,
"verse": 39,
"reference": "SB 8.12.39",
"devanagari": "को नु मे ऽतितरेन्मायां विषक्तस्त्वदृते पुमान्\nतांस्तान्विसृजतीं भावान्दुस्तराम् अकृतात्मभिः",
"transliteration": "ko nu me 'titaren māyāṁ\nviṣaktas tvad-ṛte pumān\ntāṁs tān visṛjatīṁ bhāvān\ndustarām akṛtātmabhiḥ",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "kaḥ",
"meanings": [
"what"
]
},
{
"word": "nu",
"meanings": [
"indeed"
]
},
{
"word": "me",
"meanings": [
"My"
]
},
{
"word": "atitaret",
"meanings": [
"can surpass"
]
},
{
"word": "māyām",
"meanings": [
"illusory energy"
]
},
{
"word": "viṣaktaḥ",
"meanings": [
"attached to material sense enjoyment"
]
},
{
"word": "tvat-ṛte",
"meanings": [
"except for you"
]
},
{
"word": "pumān",
"meanings": [
"person"
]
},
{
"word": "tān",
"meanings": [
"such conditions"
]
},
{
"word": "tān",
"meanings": [
"unto the materially attached persons"
]
},
{
"word": "visṛjatīm",
"meanings": [
"in surpassing"
]
},
{
"word": "bhāvān",
"meanings": [
"reactions of material activities"
]
},
{
"word": "dustarām",
"meanings": [
"very difficult to surmount"
]
},
{
"word": "akṛta-ātmabhiḥ",
"meanings": [
"by persons unable to control their senses."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>My dear Lord Śambhu, who within this material world but you can surpass My illusory energy? People are generally attached to sense enjoyment and conquered by its influence. Indeed, the influence of material nature is very difficult for them to surmount.</b>",
"purport": [
"Of the three chief demigods—Brahmā, Viṣṇu and Maheśvara—all but Viṣṇu are under the influence of <i>māyā.</i> In <i>Caitanya-caritāmṛta,</i> they are described as <i>māyī,</i> which means \"under <i>māyā's</i> influence.\" But even though Lord Śiva associates with <i>māyā,</i> he is not influenced. The living entities are affected by <i>māyā,</i> but although Lord Śiva apparently associates with <i>māyā,</i> he is not affected. In other words, all living entities within this material world except for Lord Śiva are swayed by <i>māyā.</i> Lord Śiva is therefore neither <i>viṣṇu-tattva</i> nor <i>jīva-tattva.</i> He is between the two."
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 8,
"chapter": 12,
"verse": 40,
"reference": "SB 8.12.40",
"devanagari": "सेयं गुणमयी माया न त्वाम् अभिभविष्यति\nमया समेता कालेन कालरूपेण भागशः",
"transliteration": "seyaṁ guṇa-mayī māyā\nna tvām abhibhaviṣyati\nmayā sametā kālena\nkāla-rūpeṇa bhāgaśaḥ",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "sā",
"meanings": [
"that insurmountable"
]
},
{
"word": "iyam",
"meanings": [
"this"
]
},
{
"word": "guṇa-mayī",
"meanings": [
"consisting of the three modes of material nature"
]
},
{
"word": "māyā",
"meanings": [
"illusory energy"
]
},
{
"word": "na",
"meanings": [
"not"
]
},
{
"word": "tvām",
"meanings": [
"you"
]
},
{
"word": "abhibhaviṣyati",
"meanings": [
"will be able to bewilder in the future"
]
},
{
"word": "mayā",
"meanings": [
"with Me"
]
},
{
"word": "sametā",
"meanings": [
"joined"
]
},
{
"word": "kālena",
"meanings": [
"eternal time"
]
},
{
"word": "kāla-rūpeṇa",
"meanings": [
"in the form of time"
]
},
{
"word": "bhāgaśaḥ",
"meanings": [
"with her different parts."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>The material, external energy [māyā], who cooperates with Me in creation and who is manifested in the three modes of nature, will not be able to bewilder you any longer.</b>",
"purport": [
"When Lord Śiva was present, his wife, Durgā, was also there. Durgā works in cooperation with the Supreme Personality of Godhead in creating the cosmic manifestation. The Lord says in <i>Bhagavad-gītā</i> (<i>9.10</i>), <i>mayādhyakṣeṇa prakṛtiḥ sūyate sacarācaram:</i> \"The material energy [<i>prakṛti</i>] works under My direction, O son of Kuntī, and is producing all moving and unmoving beings.\" <i>Prakṛti</i> is Durgā.",
"<i>sṛṣṭi-sthiti-pralaya-sādhana-śaktir ekā<br/> chāyeva yasya bhuvanāni bibharti durgā<br/> </i>[<i>Bs. 5.44</i>]",
"The entire cosmos is created by Durgā in cooperation with Lord Viṣṇu in the form of <i>kāla,</i> time. <i>Sa īkṣata lokān nu sṛjā.</i> <i>Sa imāû lokān asṛjata.</i> This is the version of the <i>Vedas</i> (<i>Aitareya Upaniṣad</i> 1.1.1-2). <i>Māyā</i> happens to be the wife of Lord Śiva, and thus Lord Śiva is in association with <i>māyā,</i> but Lord Viṣṇu here assures Lord Śiva that this <i>māyā</i> will no longer be able to captivate him."
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 8,
"chapter": 12,
"verse": 41,
"reference": "SB 8.12.41",
"devanagari": "श्रीशुक उवाच\nएवं भगवता राजन्श्रीवत्सांकेन सत्कृतः\nआमन्त्र्य तं परिक्रम्य सगणः स्वालयं ययौ",
"transliteration": "śrī-śuka uvāca\nevaṁ bhagavatā rājan\nśrīvatsāṅkena sat-kṛtaḥ\nāmantrya taṁ parikramya\nsagaṇaḥ svālayaṁ yayau",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "śrī-śukaḥ uvāca",
"meanings": [
"Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said"
]
},
{
"word": "evam",
"meanings": [
"thus"
]
},
{
"word": "bhagavatā",
"meanings": [
"by the Supreme Personality of Godhead"
]
},
{
"word": "rājan",
"meanings": [
"O King"
]
},
{
"word": "śrīvatsa-aṅkena",
"meanings": [
"who always carries the mark of Śrīvatsa on His breast"
]
},
{
"word": "sat-kṛtaḥ",
"meanings": [
"being very much applauded"
]
},
{
"word": "āmantrya",
"meanings": [
"taking permission from"
]
},
{
"word": "tam",
"meanings": [
"Him"
]
},
{
"word": "parikramya",
"meanings": [
"circumambulating"
]
},
{
"word": "sa-gaṇaḥ",
"meanings": [
"with his associates"
]
},
{
"word": "sva-ālayam",
"meanings": [
"to his own abode"
]
},
{
"word": "yayau",
"meanings": [
"went back."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>Śukadeva Gosvāmī said:</b><b> O King, having thus been praised by the Supreme Personality, who bears the mark of Śrīvatsa on His chest, Lord Śiva circumambulated Him. Then, after taking permission from Him, Lord Śiva returned to his abode, Kailāsa, along with his associates.</b>",
"purport": [
"Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura remarks that when Lord Śiva was offering obeisances unto Lord Viṣṇu, Lord Viṣṇu arose and embraced him. Therefore the word <i>śrīvatsāṅkena</i> is used here. The mark of Śrīvatsa adorns the chest of Lord Viṣṇu, and therefore when Lord Viṣṇu embraced Lord Śiva while being circumambulated, the Śrīvatsa mark touched Lord Śiva's bosom."
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 8,
"chapter": 12,
"verse": 42,
"reference": "SB 8.12.42",
"devanagari": "आत्मांशभूतां तां मायां भवानीं भगवान्भवः\nसम्मताम् ऋषिमुख्यानां प्रीत्याचष्टाथ भारत",
"transliteration": "ātmāṁśa-bhūtāṁ tāṁ māyāṁ\nbhavānīṁ bhagavān bhavaḥ\nsammatām ṛṣi-mukhyānāṁ\nprītyācaṣṭātha bhārata",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "ātma-aṁśa-bhūtām",
"meanings": [
"a potency of the Supreme Soul"
]
},
{
"word": "tām",
"meanings": [
"unto her"
]
},
{
"word": "māyām",
"meanings": [
"the illusory energy"
]
},
{
"word": "bhavānīm",
"meanings": [
"who is the wife of Lord Śiva"
]
},
{
"word": "bhagavān",
"meanings": [
"the powerful"
]
},
{
"word": "bhavaḥ",
"meanings": [
"Lord Śiva"
]
},
{
"word": "sammatām",
"meanings": [
"accepted"
]
},
{
"word": "ṛṣi-mukhyānām",
"meanings": [
"by the great sages"
]
},
{
"word": "prītyā",
"meanings": [
"in jubilation"
]
},
{
"word": "ācaṣṭa",
"meanings": [
"began to address"
]
},
{
"word": "atha",
"meanings": [
"then"
]
},
{
"word": "bhārata",
"meanings": [
"O Mahārāja Parīkṣit, descendant of Bharata."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>O descendant of Bharata Mahārāja, Lord Śiva, in jubilation, then addressed his wife, Bhavānī, who is accepted by all authorities as the potency of Lord Viṣṇu.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 8,
"chapter": 12,
"verse": 43,
"reference": "SB 8.12.43",
"devanagari": "अयि व्यपश्यस्त्वम् अजस्य मायां परस्य पुंसः परदेवतायाः\nअहं कलानाम् ऋषभो ऽपि मुह्ये ययावशो ऽन्ये किम् उतास्वतन्त्राः",
"transliteration": "ayi vyapaśyas tvam ajasya māyāṁ\nparasya puṁsaḥ para-devatāyāḥ\nahaṁ kalānām ṛṣabho 'pi muhye\nyayāvaśo 'nye kim utāsvatantrāḥ",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "ayi",
"meanings": [
"oh"
]
},
{
"word": "vyapaśyaḥ",
"meanings": [
"have seen"
]
},
{
"word": "tvam",
"meanings": [
"you"
]
},
{
"word": "ajasya",
"meanings": [
"of the unborn"
]
},
{
"word": "māyām",
"meanings": [
"the illusory energy"
]
},
{
"word": "parasya puṁsaḥ",
"meanings": [
"of the Supreme Person"
]
},
{
"word": "para-devatāyāḥ",
"meanings": [
"the Absolute Truth"
]
},
{
"word": "aham",
"meanings": [
"myself"
]
},
{
"word": "kalānām",
"meanings": [
"of plenary portions"
]
},
{
"word": "ṛṣabhaḥ",
"meanings": [
"the chief"
]
},
{
"word": "api",
"meanings": [
"although"
]
},
{
"word": "muhye",
"meanings": [
"became bewildered"
]
},
{
"word": "yayā",
"meanings": [
"by her"
]
},
{
"word": "avaśaḥ",
"meanings": [
"imperceptibly"
]
},
{
"word": "anye",
"meanings": [
"others"
]
},
{
"word": "kim uta",
"meanings": [
"what to speak of"
]
},
{
"word": "asvatantrāḥ",
"meanings": [
"fully dependent on māyā."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>Lord Śiva said:</b><b> O Goddess, you have now seen the illusory energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is the unborn master of everyone. Although I am one of the principal expansions of His Lordship, even I was illusioned by His energy. What then is to be said of others, who are fully dependent on māyā?</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 8,
"chapter": 12,
"verse": 44,
"reference": "SB 8.12.44",
"devanagari": "यं माम् अपृच्छस्त्वम् उपेत्य योगात्समासहस्रान्त उपारतं वै\nस एष साक्षात्पुरुषः पुराणो न यत्र कालो विशते न वेदः",
"transliteration": "yaṁ mām apṛcchas tvam upetya yogāt\nsamā-sahasrānta upārataṁ vai\nsa eṣa sākṣāt puruṣaḥ purāṇo\nna yatra kālo viśate na vedaḥ",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "yam",
"meanings": [
"about whom"
]
},
{
"word": "mām",
"meanings": [
"from me"
]
},
{
"word": "apṛcchaḥ",
"meanings": [
"inquired"
]
},
{
"word": "tvam",
"meanings": [
"you"
]
},
{
"word": "upetya",
"meanings": [
"coming near me"
]
},
{
"word": "yogāt",
"meanings": [
"from performing mystic yoga"
]
},
{
"word": "samā",
"meanings": [
"years"
]
},
{
"word": "sahasra-ante",
"meanings": [
"at the end of one thousand"
]
},
{
"word": "upāratam",
"meanings": [
"ceasing"
]
},
{
"word": "vai",
"meanings": [
"indeed"
]
},
{
"word": "saḥ",
"meanings": [
"He"
]
},
{
"word": "eṣaḥ",
"meanings": [
"here is"
]
},
{
"word": "sākṣāt",
"meanings": [
"directly"
]
},
{
"word": "puruṣaḥ",
"meanings": [
"the Supreme Person"
]
},
{
"word": "purāṇaḥ",
"meanings": [
"the original"
]
},
{
"word": "na",
"meanings": [
"not"
]
},
{
"word": "yatra",
"meanings": [
"where"
]
},
{
"word": "kālaḥ",
"meanings": [
"eternal time"
]
},
{
"word": "viśate",
"meanings": [
"can enter"
]
},
{
"word": "na",
"meanings": [
"nor"
]
},
{
"word": "vedaḥ",
"meanings": [
"the Vedas."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>When I finished performing mystic yoga for one thousand years, you asked me upon whom I was meditating. Now, here is that Supreme Person to whom time has no entrance and who the Vedas cannot understand.</b>",
"purport": [
"Eternal time enters anywhere and everywhere, but it cannot enter the kingdom of god. Nor can the <i>Vedas</i> understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This is an indication of the Lord's being omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient."
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 8,
"chapter": 12,
"verse": 45,
"reference": "SB 8.12.45",
"devanagari": "श्रीशुक उवाच\nइति ते ऽभिहितस्तात विक्रमः शार्ंगधन्वनः\nसिन्धोर्निर्मथने येन धृतः पृष्ठे महाचलः",
"transliteration": "śrī-śuka uvāca\niti te 'bhihitas tāta\nvikramaḥ śārṅga-dhanvanaḥ\nsindhor nirmathane yena\ndhṛtaḥ pṛṣṭhe mahācalaḥ",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "śrī-śukaḥ uvāca",
"meanings": [
"Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said"
]
},
{
"word": "iti",
"meanings": [
"thus"
]
},
{
"word": "te",
"meanings": [
"unto you"
]
},
{
"word": "abhihitaḥ",
"meanings": [
"explained"
]
},
{
"word": "tāta",
"meanings": [
"my dear King"
]
},
{
"word": "vikramaḥ",
"meanings": [
"prowess"
]
},
{
"word": "śārṅga-dhanvanaḥ",
"meanings": [
"of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who carries the Śārṅga bow"
]
},
{
"word": "sindhoḥ",
"meanings": [
"of the ocean of milk"
]
},
{
"word": "nirmathane",
"meanings": [
"in the churning"
]
},
{
"word": "yena",
"meanings": [
"by whom"
]
},
{
"word": "dhṛtaḥ",
"meanings": [
"was held"
]
},
{
"word": "pṛṣṭhe",
"meanings": [
"on the back"
]
},
{
"word": "mahā-acalaḥ",
"meanings": [
"the great mountain."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>Śukadeva Gosvāmī said:</b><b> My dear King, the person who bore the great mountain on His back for the churning of the ocean of milk is the same Supreme Personality of Godhead, known as Śārṅgadhanvā. I have now described to you His prowess.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 8,
"chapter": 12,
"verse": 46,
"reference": "SB 8.12.46",
"devanagari": "एतन्मुहुः कीर्तयतो ऽनुशृण्वतो न रिष्यते जातु समुद्यमः क्वचित्\nयद् उत्तमश्लोकगुणानुवर्णनं समस्तसंसारपरिश्रमापहम्",
"transliteration": "etan muhuḥ kīrtayato 'nuśṛṇvato\nna riṣyate jātu samudyamaḥ kvacit\nyad uttamaśloka-guṇānuvarṇanaṁ\nsamasta-saṁsāra-pariśramāpaham",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "etat",
"meanings": [
"this narration"
]
},
{
"word": "muhuḥ",
"meanings": [
"constantly"
]
},
{
"word": "kīrtayataḥ",
"meanings": [
"of one who chants"
]
},
{
"word": "anuśṛṇvataḥ",
"meanings": [
"and also hears"
]
},
{
"word": "na",
"meanings": [
"not"
]
},
{
"word": "riṣyate",
"meanings": [
"annihilated"
]
},
{
"word": "jātu",
"meanings": [
"at any time"
]
},
{
"word": "samudyamaḥ",
"meanings": [
"the endeavor"
]
},
{
"word": "kvacit",
"meanings": [
"at any time"
]
},
{
"word": "yat",
"meanings": [
"because"
]
},
{
"word": "uttamaśloka",
"meanings": [
"of the Supreme Personality of Godhead"
]
},
{
"word": "guṇa-anuvarṇanam",
"meanings": [
"describing the transcendental qualities"
]
},
{
"word": "samasta",
"meanings": [
"all"
]
},
{
"word": "saṁsāra",
"meanings": [
"of material existence"
]
},
{
"word": "pariśrama",
"meanings": [
"misery"
]
},
{
"word": "apaham",
"meanings": [
"finishing."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>The endeavor of one who constantly hears or describes this narration of the churning of the ocean of milk will never be fruitless. Indeed, chanting the glories of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the only means to annihilate all sufferings in this material world.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam",
"canto": 8,
"chapter": 12,
"verse": 47,
"reference": "SB 8.12.47",
"devanagari": "असदविषयम् अंघ्रिं भावगम्यं प्रपन्नान् अमृतम् अमरवर्यान् आशयत्सिन्धुमथ्यम्\nकपटयुवतिवेषो मोहयन्यः सुरारींस्तम् अहम् उपसृतानां कामपूरं नतो ऽस्मि",
"transliteration": "asad-aviṣayam aṅghriṁ bhāva-gamyaṁ prapannān\namṛtam amara-varyān āśayat sindhu-mathyam\nkapaṭa-yuvati-veṣo mohayan yaḥ surārīṁs\ntam aham upasṛtānāṁ kāma-pūraṁ nato 'smi",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "asat-aviṣayam",
"meanings": [
"not understood by the atheists"
]
},
{
"word": "aṅghrim",
"meanings": [
"unto the lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of Godhead"
]
},
{
"word": "bhāva-gamyam",
"meanings": [
"understood by devotees"
]
},
{
"word": "prapannān",
"meanings": [
"fully surrendered"
]
},
{
"word": "amṛtam",
"meanings": [
"the nectar"
]
},
{
"word": "amara-varyān",
"meanings": [
"only unto the demigods"
]
},
{
"word": "āśayat",
"meanings": [
"gave to drink"
]
},
{
"word": "sindhu-mathyam",
"meanings": [
"produced from the ocean of milk"
]
},
{
"word": "kapaṭa-yuvati-veṣaḥ",
"meanings": [
"appearing as a false young girl"
]
},
{
"word": "mohayan",
"meanings": [
"captivating"
]
},
{
"word": "yaḥ",
"meanings": [
"He who"
]
},
{
"word": "sura-arīn",
"meanings": [
"the enemies of the demigods"
]
},
{
"word": "tam",
"meanings": [
"unto Him"
]
},
{
"word": "aham",
"meanings": [
"I"
]
},
{
"word": "upasṛtānām",
"meanings": [
"of the devotees"
]
},
{
"word": "kāma-pūram",
"meanings": [
"who fulfills all desires"
]
},
{
"word": "nataḥ asmi",
"meanings": [
"I offer my respectful obeisances."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>Assuming the form of a young woman and thus bewildering the demons, the Supreme Personality of Godhead distributed to His devotees, the demigods, the nectar produced from the churning of the ocean of milk. Unto that Supreme Personality of Godhead, who always fulfills the desires of His devotees, I offer my respectful obeisances.</b>",
"purport": [
"The instruction of this narration concerning the churning of the milk ocean is clearly manifested by the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Although He is equal to everyone, because of natural affection He favors His devotees. The Lord says in <i>Bhagavad-gītā</i> (9.29):",
"<i>samo 'haṁ sarva-bhūteṣu<br/> na me dveṣyo 'sti na priyaḥ<br/> ye bhajanti tu māṁ bhaktyā<br/> mayi te teṣu cāpy aham</i>",
"\"I envy no one, nor am I partial to anyone. I am equal to all. But whoever renders service unto Me in devotion is a friend, is in Me, and I am also a friend to him.\" This partiality of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is natural. A person cares for his children not because of partiality but in a reciprocation of love. The children depend on the father's affection, and the father affectionately maintains the children. Similarly, because devotees do not know anything but the lotus feet of the Lord, the Lord is always prepared to give protection to His devotees and fulfill their desires. He therefore says, <i>kaunteya pratijānīhi na me bhaktaḥ praṇaśyati:</i> \"O son of Kuntī, declare it boldly that My devotee never perishes.\""
]
}