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Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 2 Sanskrit: दितिस्तु भर्तुरादेशादपत्यपरिशङ्किनी ।पूर्णेवर्षशते साध्वी पुत्रौ प्रसुषुवे यमौ ॥ २ ॥ ITRANS: ditis tu bhartur ādeśādapatya-pariśaṅkinīpūrṇe varṣa-śate sādhvīputrau prasuṣuve yamau Translation: The virtuous lady Diti had been very apprehensive of trouble to the gods from the children in her womb, and her husband predicted the same. She brought forth twin sons after a full one hundred years of pregnancy. Purport:

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 2 Sanskrit: श्रीभगवानुवाचएतौ तौ पार्षदौ मह्यं जयो विजय एव च ।कदर्थीकृत्य मां यद्वो बह्वक्रातामतिक्रमम् ॥ २ ॥ ITRANS: śrī-bhagavān uvācaetau tau pārṣadau mahyaṁjayo vijaya eva cakadarthī-kṛtya māṁ yad vobahv akrātām atikramam Translation: The Personality of Godhead said: These attendants of Mine, Jaya and Vijaya by name, have committed a great offense against you because of ignoring Me. Purport: To commit an offense at the feet of a devotee of the Lord is a great wrong....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 2 Sanskrit: लोके तेनाहतालोके लोकपाला हतौजस: ।न्यवेदयन् विश्वसृजे ध्वान्तव्यतिकरं दिशाम् ॥ २ ॥ ITRANS: loke tenāhatālokeloka-pālā hataujasaḥnyavedayan viśva-sṛjedhvānta-vyatikaraṁ diśām Translation: By the force of the pregnancy of Diti, the light of the sun and moon was impaired in all the planets, and the demigods of various planets, being disturbed by that force, asked the creator of the universe, Brahmā, “What is this expansion of darkness in all directions?...

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 2 Sanskrit: विदुर उवाचतेनैव तु मुनिश्रेष्ठ हरिणा यज्ञमूर्तिना ।आदिदैत्यो हिरण्याक्षो हत इत्यनुशुश्रुम ॥ २ ॥ ITRANS: vidura uvācatenaiva tu muni-śreṣṭhahariṇā yajña-mūrtināādi-daityo hiraṇyākṣohata ity anuśuśruma Translation: Śrī Vidura said: O chief amongst the great sages, I have heard by disciplic succession that Hiraṇyākṣa, the original demon, was slain by the same form of sacrifices, the Personality of Godhead [Lord Boar]. Purport: As referred to previously, the boar incarnation was manifested in two millenniums, namely Svāyambhuva and Cākṣuṣa....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 2 Sanskrit: विदुर उवाचस वै स्वायम्भुव: सम्राट् प्रिय: पुत्र: स्वयम्भुव: ।प्रतिलभ्य प्रियां पत्नीं किं चकार ततो मुने ॥ २ ॥ ITRANS: vidura uvācasa vai svāyambhuvaḥ samrāṭpriyaḥ putraḥ svayambhuvaḥpratilabhya priyāṁ patnīṁkiṁ cakāra tato mune Translation: Vidura said: O great sage, what did Svāyambhuva, the dear son of Brahmā, do after obtaining his very loving wife? Purport:

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 2 Sanskrit: ससर्जाग्रेऽन्धतामिस्रमथ तामिस्रमादिकृत् ।महामोहं च मोहं च तमश्चाज्ञानवृत्तय: ॥ २ ॥ ITRANS: sasarjāgre ’ndha-tāmisramatha tāmisram ādi-kṛtmahāmohaṁ ca mohaṁ catamaś cājñāna-vṛttayaḥ Translation: Brahmā first created the nescient engagements like self-deception, the sense of death, anger after frustration, the sense of false ownership, and the illusory bodily conception, or forgetfulness of one’s real identity. Purport: Before the factual creation of the living entities in different varieties of species, the conditions under which a living being in the material world has to live were created by Brahmā....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 2 Sanskrit: सत एव पदार्थस्य स्वरूपावस्थितस्य यत् ।कैवल्यं परममहानविशेषो निरन्तर: ॥ २ ॥ ITRANS: sata eva padārthasyasvarūpāvasthitasya yatkaivalyaṁ parama-mahānaviśeṣo nirantaraḥ Translation: Atoms are the ultimate state of the manifest universe. When they stay in their own forms without forming different bodies, they are called the unlimited oneness. There are certainly different bodies in physical forms, but the atoms themselves form the complete manifestation....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 2 Sanskrit: ये च मे भगवन् पृष्टास्त्वय्यर्था बहुवित्तम ।तान् वदस्वानुपूर्व्येण छिन्धि न: सर्वसंशयान् ॥ २ ॥ ITRANS: ye ca me bhagavan pṛṣṭāstvayy arthā bahuvittamatān vadasvānupūrvyeṇachindhi naḥ sarva-saṁśayān Translation: O greatly learned one, kindly eradicate all my doubts, and let me know of all that I have inquired from you from the beginning to the end. Purport: Vidura asked all relevant questions of Maitreya because he knew well that Maitreya was the right person to reply to all the points of his inquiries....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 2 Sanskrit: रूपं यदेतदवबोधरसोदयेनशश्वन्निवृत्ततमस: सदनुग्रहाय ।आदौ गृहीतमवतारशतैकबीजंयन्नाभिपद्मभवनादहमाविरासम् ॥ २ ॥ ITRANS: rūpaṁ yad etad avabodha-rasodayenaśaśvan-nivṛtta-tamasaḥ sad-anugrahāyaādau gṛhītam avatāra-śataika-bījaṁyan-nābhi-padma-bhavanād aham āvirāsam Translation: The form which I see is eternally freed from material contamination and has advented to show mercy to the devotees as a manifestation of internal potency. This incarnation is the origin of many other incarnations, and I am born from the lotus flower grown from Your navel home....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 2 Sanskrit: सोऽहं नृणां क्षुल्लसुखाय दु:खंमहद्‌गतानां विरमाय तस्य ।प्रवर्तये भागवतं पुराणंयदाह साक्षाद्भगवानृषिभ्य: ॥ २ ॥ ITRANS: so ’haṁ nṛṇāṁ kṣulla-sukhāya duḥkhaṁmahad gatānāṁ viramāya tasyapravartaye bhāgavataṁ purāṇaṁyad āha sākṣād bhagavān ṛṣibhyaḥ Translation: Let me now begin speaking on the Bhāgavata Purāṇa, which was directly spoken to the great sages by the Personality of Godhead for the benefit of those who are entangled in extreme miseries for the sake of very little pleasure....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 2 Sanskrit: विदुर उवाचब्रह्मन् कथं भगवतश्चिन्मात्रस्याविकारिण: ।लीलया चापि युज्येरन्निर्गुणस्य गुणा: क्रिया: ॥ २ ॥ ITRANS: vidura uvācabrahman kathaṁ bhagavataścin-mātrasyāvikāriṇaḥlīlayā cāpi yujyerannirguṇasya guṇāḥ kriyāḥ Translation: Śrī Vidura said: O great brāhmaṇa, since the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the complete spiritual whole and is unchangeable, how is He connected with the material modes of nature and their activities? If this is His pastime, how do the activities of the unchangeable take place and exhibit qualities without the modes of nature?...

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 2 Sanskrit: कालसंज्ञां तदा देवीं बिभ्रच्छक्तिमुरुक्रम: ।त्रयोविंशतितत्त्वानां गणं युगपदाविशत् ॥ २ ॥ ITRANS: kāla-sañjñāṁ tadā devīṁbibhrac-chaktim urukramaḥtrayoviṁśati tattvānāṁgaṇaṁ yugapad āviśat Translation: The Supreme Powerful Lord then simultaneously entered into the twenty-three elements with the goddess Kālī, His external energy, who alone amalgamates all the different elements. Purport: The ingredients of matter are counted as twenty-three: the total material energy, false ego, sound, touch, form, taste, smell, earth, water, fire, air, sky, eye, ear, nose, tongue, skin, hand, leg, evacuating organ, genitals, speech and mind....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 2 Sanskrit: विदुर उवाचसुखाय कर्माणि करोति लोकोन तै: सुखं वान्यदुपारमं वा ।विन्देत भूयस्तत एव दु:खंयदत्र युक्तं भगवान् वदेन्न: ॥ २ ॥ ITRANS: vidura uvācasukhāya karmāṇi karoti lokona taiḥ sukhaṁ vānyad-upāramaṁ vāvindeta bhūyas tata eva duḥkhaṁyad atra yuktaṁ bhagavān vaden naḥ Translation: Vidura said: O great sage, everyone in this world engages in fruitive activities to attain happiness, but one finds neither satiation nor the mitigation of distress....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 2 Sanskrit: तेषां मैरेयदोषेण विषमीकृतचेतसाम् ।निम्‍लोचति रवावासीद्वेणूनामिव मर्दनम् ॥ २ ॥ ITRANS: teṣāṁ maireya-doṣeṇaviṣamīkṛta-cetasāmnimlocati ravāv āsīdveṇūnām iva mardanam Translation: As by the friction of bamboos destruction takes place, so also, at sunset, by the interaction of the faults of intoxication, all their minds became unbalanced, and destruction took place. Purport: When there is need of fire in the forest, by the will of the Supreme it takes place due to friction among the bamboos....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 2 Sanskrit: सान्दीपने: सकृत्प्रोक्तं ब्रह्माधीत्य सविस्तरम् ।तस्मै प्रादाद्वरं पुत्रं मृतं पञ्चजनोदरात् ॥ २ ॥ ITRANS: sāndīpaneḥ sakṛt proktaṁbrahmādhītya sa-vistaramtasmai prādād varaṁ putraṁmṛtaṁ pañca-janodarāt Translation: The Lord learned all the Vedas with their different branches simply by hearing them once from His teacher, Sāndīpani Muni, whom He rewarded by bringing back his dead son from the region of Yamaloka. Purport: No one but the Supreme Lord can become well versed in all the branches of Vedic wisdom simply by hearing once from his teacher....