Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 12 - Chapter 1 - Verse 23 Sanskrit: सौकन्यं चाथ शर्याते: ककुत्स्थस्य च धीमत: ।खट्वाङ्गस्य च मान्धातु: सौभरे: सगरस्य च ॥ २३ ॥ ITRANS: saukanyaṁ cātha śaryāteḥkakutsthasya ca dhīmataḥkhaṭvāṅgasya ca māndhātuḥsaubhareḥ sagarasya ca Translation: The histories of Sukanyā, Śaryāti, the intelligent Kakutstha, Khaṭvāṅga, Māndhātā, Saubhari and Sagara are narrated. Purport:
Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 12 - Chapter 1 - Verse 23 Sanskrit: यदावतीर्णो भगवान् कल्किर्धर्मपतिर्हरि: ।कृतं भविष्यति तदा प्रजासूतिश्च सात्त्विकी ॥ २३ ॥ ITRANS: yadāvatīrṇo bhagavānkalkir dharma-patir hariḥkṛtaṁ bhaviṣyati tadāprajā-sūtiś ca sāttvikī Translation: When the Supreme Lord has appeared on earth as Kalki, the maintainer of religion, Satya-yuga will begin, and human society will bring forth progeny in the mode of goodness. Purport:
Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 12 - Chapter 1 - Verse 23 Sanskrit: यशस्विनो महाशीला: स्वाध्यायाध्ययने रता: ।आढ्या: कुटुम्बिनो हृष्टा वर्णा: क्षत्रद्विजोत्तरा: ॥ २३ ॥ ITRANS: yaśasvino mahā-śīlāḥsvādhyāyādhyayane ratāḥāḍhyāḥ kuṭumbino hṛṣṭāvarṇāḥ kṣatra-dvijottarāḥ Translation: In the Dvāpara age people are interested in glory and are very noble. They devote themselves to the study of the Vedas, possess great opulence, support large families and enjoy life with vigor. Of the four classes, the kṣatriyas and brāhmaṇas are most numerous....
Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 12 - Chapter 1 - Verse 23 Sanskrit: बुद्धीन्द्रियार्थरूपेण ज्ञानं भाति तदाश्रयम् ।दृश्यत्वाव्यतिरेकाभ्यामाद्यन्तवदवस्तु यत् ॥ २३ ॥ ITRANS: buddhīndriyārtha-rūpeṇajñānaṁ bhāti tad-āśrayamdṛśyatvāvyatirekābhyāmādy-antavad avastu yat Translation: It is the Absolute Truth alone who manifests in the forms of intelligence, the senses and the objects of sense perception, and who is their ultimate basis. Whatever has a beginning and an end is insubstantial because of being an object perceived by limited senses and because of being nondifferent from its own cause....
Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 12 - Chapter 1 - Verse 23 Sanskrit: तं पतन्तं विमानेन सहतक्षकमम्बरात् ।विलोक्याङ्गिरस: प्राह राजानं तं बृहस्पति: ॥ २३ ॥ ITRANS: taṁ patantaṁ vimānenasaha-takṣakam ambarātvilokyāṅgirasaḥ prāharājānaṁ taṁ bṛhaspatiḥ Translation: Bṛhaspati, the son of Aṅgirā Muni, seeing Indra falling from the sky in his airplane along with Takṣaka, approached King Janamejaya and spoke to him as follows. Purport:
Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 12 - Chapter 1 - Verse 23-24 Sanskrit: ब्राह्मं पाद्मं वैष्णवं च शैवं लैङ्गं सगारुडं ।नारदीयं भागवतमाग्नेयं स्कान्दसंज्ञितम् ॥ २३ ॥भविष्यं ब्रह्मवैवर्तं मार्कण्डेयं सवामनम् ।वाराहं मात्स्यं कौर्मं च ब्रह्माण्डाख्यमिति त्रिषट् ॥ २४ ॥ ITRANS: brāhmaṁ pādmaṁ vaiṣṇavaṁ caśaivaṁ laiṅgaṁ sa-gāruḍaṁnāradīyaṁ bhāgavatamāgneyaṁ skānda-saṁjñitam Translation: The eighteen major Purāṇas are the Brahma, Padma, Viṣṇu, Śiva, Liṅga, Garuḍa, Nārada, Bhāgavata, Agni, Skanda, Bhaviṣya, Brahma-vaivarta, Mārkaṇḍeya, Vāmana, Varāha, Matsya, Kūrma and Brahmāṇḍa Purāṇas....
Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 12 - Chapter 1 - Verse 23 Sanskrit: हुत्वाग्निं समुपासीनं ददृशु: शक्रकिङ्करा: ।मीलिताक्षं दुराधर्षं मूर्तिमन्तमिवानलम् ॥ २३ ॥ ITRANS: hutvāgniṁ samupāsīnaṁdadṛśuḥ śakra-kiṅkarāḥmīlitākṣaṁ durādharṣaṁmūrtimantam ivānalam Translation: These servants of Indra found the sage sitting in meditation, having just offered his prescribed oblations into the sacrificial fire. His eyes closed in trance, he seemed invincible, like fire personified. Purport:
Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 11 - Chapter 1 - Verse 23 Sanskrit: यज्ञानां ब्रह्मयज्ञोऽहं व्रतानामविहिंसनम् ।वाय्वग्न्यर्काम्बुवागात्मा शुचीनामप्यहं शुचि: ॥ २३ ॥ ITRANS: yajñānāṁ brahma-yajño ’haṁvratānām avihiṁsanamvāyv-agny-arkāmbu-vāg-ātmāśucīnām apy ahaṁ śuciḥ Translation: Among sacrifices I am study of the Veda, and I am nonviolence among vows. Among all things that purify I am the wind, fire, the sun, water and speech. Purport:
Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 11 - Chapter 1 - Verse 23 Sanskrit: मेखलाजिनदण्डाक्षब्रह्मसूत्रकमण्डलून् ।जटिलोऽधौतदद्वासोऽरक्तपीठ: कुशान् दधत् ॥ २३ ॥ ITRANS: mekhalājina-daṇḍākṣa-brahma-sūtra-kamaṇḍalūnjaṭilo ’dhauta-dad-vāso’rakta-pīṭhaḥ kuśān dadhat Translation: The brahmacārī should regularly dress with a belt of straw and deerskin garments. He should wear matted hair, carry a rod and waterpot and be decorated with akṣa beads and a sacred thread. Carrying pure kuśa grass in his hand, he should never accept a luxurious or sensuous sitting place....
Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 11 - Chapter 1 - Verse 23 Sanskrit: तस्मान्नियम्य षड्वर्गं मद्भावेन चरेन्मुनि: ।विरक्त: क्षुद्रकामेभ्यो लब्ध्वात्मनि सुखं महत् ॥ २३ ॥ ITRANS: tasmān niyamya ṣaḍ-vargaṁmad-bhāvena caren muniḥviraktaḥ kṣudra-kāmebhyolabdhvātmani sukhaṁ mahat Translation: Therefore, completely controlling the five senses and the mind by Kṛṣṇa consciousness, a sage, having experienced spiritual bliss within the self, should live detached from insignificant material sense gratification. Purport:
Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 11 - Chapter 1 - Verse 23 Sanskrit: निर्विण्णस्य विरक्तस्य पुरुषस्योक्तवेदिन: ।मनस्त्यजति दौरात्म्यं चिन्तितस्यानुचिन्तया ॥ २३ ॥ ITRANS: nirviṇṇasya viraktasyapuruṣasyokta-vedinaḥmanas tyajati daurātmyaṁcintitasyānucintayā Translation: When a person is disgusted with the temporary, illusory nature of this world and is thus detached from it, his mind, guided by the instructions of his spiritual master, considers again and again the nature of this world and eventually gives up the false identification with matter....
Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 11 - Chapter 1 - Verse 23 Sanskrit: फलश्रुतिरियं नृणां न श्रेयो रोचनं परम् ।श्रेयोविवक्षया प्रोक्तं यथा भैषज्यरोचनम् ॥ २३ ॥ ITRANS: phala-śrutir iyaṁ nṝṇāṁna śreyo rocanaṁ paramśreyo-vivakṣayā proktaṁyathā bhaiṣajya-rocanam Translation: Those statements of scripture promising fruitive rewards do not prescribe the ultimate good for men but are merely enticements for executing beneficial religious duties, like promises of candy spoken to induce a child to take beneficial medicine....
Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 11 - Chapter 1 - Verse 23 Sanskrit: तद्वत् षोडशसङ्ख्याने आत्मैव मन उच्यते ।भूतेन्द्रियाणि पञ्चैव मन आत्मा त्रयोदश ॥ २३ ॥ ITRANS: tadvat ṣoḍaśa-saṅkhyāneātmaiva mana ucyatebhūtendriyāṇi pañcaivamana ātmā trayodaśa Translation: According to the calculation of sixteen elements, the only difference from the previous theory is that the soul is identified with the mind. If we think in terms of five physical elements, five senses, the mind, the individual soul and the Supreme Lord, there are thirteen elements....
Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 11 - Chapter 1 - Verse 23 Sanskrit: स्वर्गापवर्गयोर्द्वारं प्राप्य लोकमिमं पुमान् ।द्रविणे कोऽनुषज्जेत मर्त्योऽनर्थस्य धामनि ॥ २३ ॥ ITRANS: svargāpavargayor dvāraṁprāpya lokam imaṁ pumāndraviṇe ko ’nuṣajjetamartyo ’narthasya dhāmani Translation: What mortal man, having achieved this human life, which is the very gateway to both heaven and liberation, would willingly become attached to that abode of worthlessness, material property? Purport: That which one intends to use for one’s personal sense gratification is called material property, whereas paraphernalia to be used in the Lord’s loving service is understood to be spiritual....
Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 11 - Chapter 1 - Verse 23 Sanskrit: मदर्पणं निष्फलं वा सात्त्विकं निजकर्म तत् ।राजसं फलसङ्कल्पं हिंसाप्रायादि तामसम् ॥ २३ ॥ ITRANS: mad-arpaṇaṁ niṣphalaṁ vāsāttvikaṁ nija-karma tatrājasaṁ phala-saṅkalpaṁhiṁsā-prāyādi tāmasam Translation: Work performed as an offering to Me, without consideration of the fruit, is considered to be in the mode of goodness. Work performed with a desire to enjoy the results is in the mode of passion. And work impelled by violence and envy is in the mode of ignorance....