Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 10 - Chapter 1

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 34 Sanskrit: पथि प्रग्रहिणं कंसमाभाष्याहाशरीरवाक् । अस्यास्त्वामष्टमो गर्भो हन्ता यां वहसेऽबुध ॥ ३४ ॥ ITRANS: pathi pragrahiṇaṁ kaṁsamābhāṣyāhāśarīra-vākasyās tvām aṣṭamo garbhohantā yāṁ vahase ’budha Translation: While Kaṁsa, controlling the reins of the horses, was driving the chariot along the way, an unembodied voice addressed him, “You foolish rascal, the eighth child of the woman you are carrying will kill you!” Purport: The omen spoke of aṣṭamo garbhaḥ, referring to the eighth pregnancy, but did not clearly say whether the child was to be a son or a daughter....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 35 Sanskrit: इत्युक्त: स खल: पापो भोजानां कुलपांसन: । भगिनीं हन्तुमारब्धं खड्‍गपाणि: कचेऽग्रहीत् ॥ ३५ ॥ ITRANS: ity uktaḥ sa khalaḥ pāpobhojānāṁ kula-pāṁsanaḥbhaginīṁ hantum ārabdhaḥkhaḍga-pāṇiḥ kace ’grahīt Translation: Kaṁsa was a condemned personality in the Bhoja dynasty because he was envious and sinful. Therefore, upon hearing this omen from the sky, he caught hold of his sister’s hair with his left hand and took up his sword with his right hand to sever her head from her body....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 36 Sanskrit: तं जुगुप्सितकर्माणं नृशंसं निरपत्रपम् । वसुदेवो महाभाग उवाच परिसान्‍त्वयन् ॥ ३६ ॥ ITRANS: taṁ jugupsita-karmāṇaṁnṛśaṁsaṁ nirapatrapamvasudevo mahā-bhāgauvāca parisāntvayan Translation: Wanting to pacify Kaṁsa, who was so cruel and envious that he was shamelessly ready to kill his sister, the great soul Vasudeva, who was to be the father of Kṛṣṇa, spoke to him in the following words. Purport: Vasudeva, who was to be the father of Kṛṣṇa, is described here as mahā-bhāga, a very upright and sober personality, because although Kaṁsa was ready to kill Vasudeva’s wife, Vasudeva remained sober and unagitated....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 37 Sanskrit: श्रीवसुदेव उवाचश्लाघनीयगुण: शूरैर्भवान् भोजयशस्कर: । स कथं भगिनीं हन्यात् स्त्रियमुद्वाहपर्वणि ॥ ३७ ॥ ITRANS: śrī-vasudeva uvācaślāghanīya-guṇaḥ śūrairbhavān bhoja-yaśaskaraḥsa kathaṁ bhaginīṁ hanyātstriyam udvāha-parvaṇi Translation: Vasudeva said: My dear brother-in-law Kaṁsa, you are the pride of your family, the Bhoja dynasty, and great heroes praise your qualities. How could such a qualified person as you kill a woman, your own sister, especially on the occasion of her marriage?...

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 38 Sanskrit: मृत्युर्जन्मवतां वीर देहेन सह जायते । अद्य वाब्दशतान्ते वा मृत्युर्वै प्राणिनां ध्रुव: ॥ ३८ ॥ ITRANS: mṛtyur janmavatāṁ vīradehena saha jāyateadya vābda-śatānte vāmṛtyur vai prāṇināṁ dhruvaḥ Translation: O great hero, one who takes birth is sure to die, for death is born with the body. One may die today or after hundreds of years, but death is sure for every living entity....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 39 Sanskrit: देहे पञ्चत्वमापन्ने देही कर्मानुगोऽवश: । देहान्तरमनुप्राप्य प्राक्तनं त्यजते वपु: ॥ ३९ ॥ ITRANS: dehe pañcatvam āpannedehī karmānugo ’vaśaḥdehāntaram anuprāpyaprāktanaṁ tyajate vapuḥ Translation: When the present body turns to dust and is again reduced to five elements — earth, water, fire, air and ether — the proprietor of the body, the living being, automatically receives another body of material elements according to his fruitive activities....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 40 Sanskrit: व्रजंस्तिष्ठन् पदैकेन यथैवैकेन गच्छति । यथा तृणजलौकैवं देही कर्मगतिं गत: ॥ ४० ॥ ITRANS: vrajaṁs tiṣṭhan padaikenayathaivaikena gacchatiyathā tṛṇa-jalaukaivaṁdehī karma-gatiṁ gataḥ Translation: Just as a person traveling on the road rests one foot on the ground and then lifts the other, or as a worm on a vegetable transfers itself to one leaf and then gives up the previous one, the conditioned soul takes shelter of another body and then gives up the one he had before....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 41 Sanskrit: स्वप्ने यथा पश्यति देहमीद‍ृशंमनोरथेनाभिनिविष्टचेतन: । द‍ृष्टश्रुताभ्यां मनसानुचिन्तयन्प्रपद्यते तत् किमपि ह्यपस्मृति: ॥ ४१ ॥ ITRANS: svapne yathā paśyati deham īdṛśaṁmanorathenābhiniviṣṭa-cetanaḥdṛṣṭa-śrutābhyāṁ manasānucintayanprapadyate tat kim api hy apasmṛtiḥ Translation: Having experienced a situation by seeing or hearing about it, one contemplates and speculates about that situation, and thus one surrenders to it, not considering his present body. Similarly, by mental adjustments one dreams at night of living under different circumstances, in different bodies, and forgets his actual position....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 42 Sanskrit: यतो यतो धावति दैवचोदितंमनो विकारात्मकमाप पञ्चसु । गुणेषु मायारचितेषु देह्यसौप्रपद्यमान: सह तेन जायते ॥ ४२ ॥ ITRANS: yato yato dhāvati daiva-coditaṁmano vikārātmakam āpa pañcasuguṇeṣu māyā-raciteṣu dehy asauprapadyamānaḥ saha tena jāyate Translation: At the time of death, according to the thinking, feeling and willing of the mind, which is involved in fruitive activities, one receives a particular body. In other words, the body develops according to the activities of the mind....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 43 Sanskrit: ज्योतिर्यथैवोदकपार्थिवेष्वद:समीरवेगानुगतं विभाव्यते । एवं स्वमायारचितेष्वसौ पुमान्गुणेषु रागानुगतो विमुह्यति ॥ ४३ ॥ ITRANS: jyotir yathaivodaka-pārthiveṣv adaḥsamīra-vegānugataṁ vibhāvyateevaṁ sva-māyā-raciteṣv asau pumānguṇeṣu rāgānugato vimuhyati Translation: When the luminaries in the sky, such as the moon, the sun and the stars, are reflected in liquids like oil or water, they appear to be of different shapes — sometimes round, sometimes long, and so on — because of the movements of the wind....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 44 Sanskrit: तस्मान् कस्यचिद्‌‌द्रोहमाचरेत् स तथाविध: । आत्मन: क्षेममन्विच्छन् द्रोग्धुर्वै परतो भयम् ॥ ४४ ॥ ITRANS: tasmān na kasyacid drohamācaret sa tathā-vidhaḥātmanaḥ kṣemam anvicchandrogdhur vai parato bhayam Translation: Therefore, since envious, impious activities cause a body in which one suffers in the next life, why should one act impiously? Considering one’s welfare, one should not envy anyone, for an envious person must always fear harm from his enemies, either in this life or in the next....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 45 Sanskrit: एषा तवानुजा बाला कृपणा पुत्रिकोपमा । हन्तुं नार्हसि कल्याणीमिमां त्वं दीनवत्सल: ॥ ४५ ॥ ITRANS: eṣā tavānujā bālākṛpaṇā putrikopamāhantuṁ nārhasi kalyāṇīmimāṁ tvaṁ dīna-vatsalaḥ Translation: As your younger sister, this poor girl Devakī is like your own daughter and deserves to be affectionately maintained. You are merciful, and therefore you should not kill her. Indeed, she deserves your affection. Purport:

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 46 Sanskrit: श्रीशुक उवाचएवं स सामभिर्भेदैर्बोध्यमानोऽपि दारुण: । न न्यवर्तत कौरव्य पुरुषादाननुव्रत: ॥ ४६ ॥ ITRANS: śrī-śuka uvācaevaṁ sa sāmabhir bhedairbodhyamāno ’pi dāruṇaḥna nyavartata kauravyapuruṣādān anuvrataḥ Translation: Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: O best of the Kuru dynasty, Kaṁsa was fiercely cruel and was actually a follower of the Rākṣasas. Therefore he could be neither pacified nor terrified by the good instructions given by Vasudeva....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 47 Sanskrit: निर्बन्धं तस्य तं ज्ञात्वा विचिन्त्यानकदुन्दुभि: । प्राप्तं कालं प्रतिव्योढुमिदं तत्रान्वपद्यत ॥ ४७ ॥ ITRANS: nirbandhaṁ tasya taṁ jñātvāvicintyānakadundubhiḥprāptaṁ kālaṁ prativyoḍhumidaṁ tatrānvapadyata Translation: When Vasudeva saw that Kaṁsa was determined to kill his sister Devakī, he thought to himself very deeply. Considering the imminent danger of death, he thought of another plan to stop Kaṁsa. Purport: Although Vasudeva saw the imminent danger that his wife Devakī would be killed, he was convinced of his welfare because at his birth the demigods had played drums and kettledrums....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 48 Sanskrit: मृत्युर्बुद्धिमतापोह्यो यावद्बुद्धिबलोदयम् । यद्यसौ न निवर्तेत नापराधोऽस्ति देहिन: ॥ ४८ ॥ ITRANS: mṛtyur buddhimatāpohyoyāvad buddhi-balodayamyady asau na nivartetanāparādho ’sti dehinaḥ Translation: As long as he has intelligence and bodily strength, an intelligent person must try to avoid death. This is the duty of every embodied person. But if death cannot be avoided in spite of one’s endeavors, a person facing death commits no offense....