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Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 40 Sanskrit: यद्भयाद्वाति वातोऽयं सूर्यस्तपति यद्भयात् ।यद्भयाद्वर्षते देवो भगणो भाति यद्भयात् ॥ ४० ॥ ITRANS: yad-bhayād vāti vāto ’yaṁsūryas tapati yad-bhayātyad-bhayād varṣate devobha-gaṇo bhāti yad-bhayāt Translation: Out of fear of the Supreme Personality of Godhead the wind blows, out of fear of Him the sun shines, out of fear of Him the rain pours forth showers, and out of fear of Him the host of heavenly bodies shed their luster....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 40 Sanskrit: यथोल्मुकाद्विस्फुलिङ्गाद्धूमाद्वापि स्वसम्भवात् ।अप्यात्मत्वेनाभिमताद्यथाग्नि: पृथगुल्मुकात् ॥ ४० ॥ ITRANS: yatholmukād visphuliṅgāddhūmād vāpi sva-sambhavātapy ātmatvenābhimatādyathāgniḥ pṛthag ulmukāt Translation: The blazing fire is different from the flames, from the sparks and from the smoke, although all are intimately connected because they are born from the same blazing wood. Purport: Although the blazing firewood, the sparks, the smoke and the flame cannot stay apart because each of them is part and parcel of the fire, still they are different from one another....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 40 Sanskrit: द्योतनं पचनं पानमदनं हिममर्दनम् ।तेजसो वृत्तयस्त्वेता: शोषणं क्षुत्तृडेव च ॥ ४० ॥ ITRANS: dyotanaṁ pacanaṁ pānamadanaṁ hima-mardanamtejaso vṛttayas tv etāḥśoṣaṇaṁ kṣut tṛḍ eva ca Translation: Fire is appreciated by its light and by its ability to cook, to digest, to destroy cold, to evaporate, and to give rise to hunger, thirst, eating and drinking. Purport: The first symptoms of fire are distribution of light and heat, and the existence of fire is also perceived in the stomach....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 40 Sanskrit: मात्र आध्यात्मिकीं विद्यां शमनीं सर्वकर्मणाम् ।वितरिष्ये यया चासौ भयं चातितरिष्यति ॥ ४० ॥ ITRANS: mātra ādhyātmikīṁ vidyāṁśamanīṁ sarva-karmaṇāmvitariṣye yayā cāsaubhayaṁ cātitariṣyati Translation: I shall also describe this sublime knowledge, which is the door to spiritual life, to My mother, so that she also can attain perfection and self-realization, ending all reactions to fruitive activities. Thus she also will be freed from all material fear....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 40 Sanskrit: वैश्रम्भके सुरसने नन्दने पुष्पभद्रके ।मानसे चैत्ररथ्ये च स रेमे रामया रत: ॥ ४० ॥ ITRANS: vaiśrambhake surasanenandane puṣpabhadrakemānase caitrarathye casa reme rāmayā rataḥ Translation: Satisfied by his wife, he enjoyed in that aerial mansion not only on Mount Meru but in different gardens known as Vaiśrambhaka, Surasana, Nandana, Puṣpabhadraka and Caitrarathya, and by the Mānasa-sarovara Lake. Purport:

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 40 Sanskrit: पुण्यद्रुमलताजालै: कूजत्पुण्यमृगद्विजै: ।सर्वर्तुफलपुष्पाढ्यं वनराजिश्रियान्वितम् ॥ ४० ॥ ITRANS: puṇya-druma-latā-jālaiḥkūjat-puṇya-mṛga-dvijaiḥsarvartu-phala-puṣpāḍhyaṁvana-rāji-śriyānvitam Translation: The shore of the lake was surrounded by clusters of pious trees and creepers, rich in fruits and flowers of all seasons, that afforded shelter to pious animals and birds, which uttered various cries. It was adorned by the beauty of groves of forest trees. Purport: It is stated here that Bindu-sarovara was surrounded by pious trees and birds....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 40 Sanskrit: सृष्ट्वा भूतपिशाचांश्च भगवानात्मतन्द्रिणा ।दिग्वाससो मुक्तकेशान् वीक्ष्य चामीलयद् द‍ृशौ ॥ ४० ॥ ITRANS: sṛṣṭvā bhūta-piśācāṁś cabhagavān ātma-tandriṇādig-vāsaso mukta-keśānvīkṣya cāmīlayad dṛśau Translation: The glorious Brahmā next evolved from his sloth the ghosts and fiends, but he closed his eyes when he saw them stand naked with their hair scattered. Purport: Ghosts and mischievous hobgoblins are also the creation of Brahmā; they are not false....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 40 Sanskrit: पीतांशुके पृथुनितम्बिनि विस्फुरन्त्याकाञ्‍च्यालिभिर्विरुतया वनमालया च ।वल्गुप्रकोष्ठवलयं विनतासुतांसेविन्यस्तहस्तमितरेण धुनानमब्जम् ॥ ४० ॥ ITRANS: pītāṁśuke pṛthu-nitambini visphurantyākāñcyālibhir virutayā vana-mālayā cavalgu-prakoṣṭha-valayaṁ vinatā-sutāṁsevinyasta-hastam itareṇa dhunānam abjam Translation: He was adorned with a girdle that shone brightly on the yellow cloth covering His large hips, and He wore a garland of fresh flowers which was distinguished by humming bees. His lovely wrists were graced with bracelets, and He rested one of His hands on the shoulder of Garuḍa, His carrier, and twirled a lotus with another hand....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 40 Sanskrit: प्राणिनां हन्यमानानां दीनानामकृतागसाम् ।स्त्रीणां निगृह्यमाणानां कोपितेषु महात्मसु ॥ ४० ॥ ITRANS: prāṇināṁ hanyamānānāṁdīnānām akṛtāgasāmstrīṇāṁ nigṛhyamāṇānāṁkopiteṣu mahātmasu Translation: They will kill poor, faultless living entities, torture women and enrage the great souls. Purport: Demoniac activities are predominant when innocent, faultless living entities are killed, women are tortured, and the great souls engaged in Kṛṣṇa consciousness are enraged. In a demoniac society, innocent animals are killed to satisfy the tongue, and women are tortured by unnecessary sexual indulgence....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 40 Sanskrit: दंष्ट्राग्रकोट्या भगवंस्त्वया धृताविराजते भूधर भू: सभूधरा ।यथा वनान्नि:सरतो दता धृतामतङ्गजेन्द्रस्य सपत्रपद्मिनी ॥ ४० ॥ ITRANS: daṁṣṭrāgra-koṭyā bhagavaṁs tvayā dhṛtāvirājate bhūdhara bhūḥ sa-bhūdharāyathā vanān niḥsarato datā dhṛtāmataṅ-gajendrasya sa-patra-padminī Translation: O lifter of the earth, the earth with its mountains, which You have lifted with Your tusks, is situated as beautifully as a lotus flower with leaves sustained by an infuriated elephant just coming out of the water....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 40 Sanskrit: षोडश्युक्थौ पूर्ववक्त्रात्पुरीष्यग्निष्टुतावथ ।आप्तोर्यामातिरात्रौ च वाजपेयं सगोसवम् ॥ ४० ॥ ITRANS: ṣoḍaśy-ukthau pūrva-vaktrātpurīṣy-agniṣṭutāv athaāptoryāmātirātrau cavājapeyaṁ sagosavam Translation: All the different varieties of fire sacrifices [ṣoḍaśī, uktha, purīṣi, agniṣṭoma, āptoryāma, atirātra, vājapeya and gosava] became manifested from the eastern mouth of Brahmā. Purport:

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 40 Sanskrit: विकारै: सहितो युक्तैर्विशेषादिभिरावृत: ।आण्डकोशो बहिरयं पञ्चाशत्कोटिविस्तृत: ॥ ४० ॥ ITRANS: vikāraiḥ sahito yuktairviśeṣādibhir āvṛtaḥāṇḍakośo bahir ayaṁpañcāśat-koṭi-vistṛtaḥ Translation: This phenomenal material world is expanded to a diameter of four billion miles, as a combination of eight material elements transformed into sixteen further categories, within and without, as follows. Purport: As explained before, the entire material world is a display of sixteen diversities and eight material elements....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 40 Sanskrit: य एतेन पुमान्नित्यं स्तुत्वा स्तोत्रेण मां भजेत् ।तस्याशु सम्प्रसीदेयं सर्वकामवरेश्वर: ॥ ४० ॥ ITRANS: ya etena pumān nityaṁstutvā stotreṇa māṁ bhajettasyāśu samprasīdeyaṁsarva-kāma-vareśvaraḥ Translation: Any human being who prays like Brahmā, and who thus worships Me, shall very soon be blessed with the fulfillment of all his desires, for I am the Lord of all benediction. Purport: The prayers offered by Brahmā cannot be chanted by anyone who desires to fulfill his own sense gratification....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 40 Sanskrit: एतान्मे पृच्छत: प्रश्नान् हरे: कर्मविवित्सया ।ब्रूहि मेऽज्ञस्य मित्रत्वादजया नष्टचक्षुष: ॥ ४० ॥ ITRANS: etān me pṛcchataḥ praśnānhareḥ karma-vivitsayābrūhi me ’jñasya mitratvādajayā naṣṭa-cakṣuṣaḥ Translation: My dear sage, I have put all these questions before you with a view to knowing the pastimes of Hari, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. You are the friend of all, so kindly describe them for all those who have lost their vision....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 40 Sanskrit: यतोऽप्राप्य न्यवर्तन्त वाचश्च मनसा सह ।अहं चान्य इमे देवास्तस्मै भगवते नम: ॥ ४० ॥ ITRANS: yato ’prāpya nyavartantavācaś ca manasā sahaahaṁ cānya ime devāstasmai bhagavate namaḥ Translation: Words, mind and ego, with their respective controlling demigods, have failed to achieve success in knowing the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Therefore, we simply have to offer our respectful obeisances unto Him as a matter of sanity....