Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 10 - Chapter 85

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 1 Sanskrit: श्रीबादरायणिरुवाचअथैकदात्मजौ प्राप्तौ कृतपादाभिवन्दनौ ।वसुदेवोऽभिनन्द्याह प्रीत्या सङ्कर्षणाच्युतौ ॥ १ ॥ ITRANS: śrī-bādarāyaṇir uvācaathaikadātmajau prāptaukṛta-pādābhivandanauvasudevo ’bhinandyāhaprītyā saṅkarṣaṇācyutau Translation: Śrī Bādarāyaṇi said: One day the two sons of Vasudeva — Saṅkarṣaṇa and Acyuta — came to pay him respects, bowing down at his feet. Vasudeva greeted Them with great affection and spoke to Them. Purport:

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 2 Sanskrit: मुनीनां स वच: श्रुत्वा पुत्रयोर्धामसूचकम् ।तद्वीर्यैर्जातविश्रम्भ: परिभाष्याभ्यभाषत ॥ २ ॥ ITRANS: munīnāṁ sa vacaḥ śrutvāputrayor dhāma-sūcakamtad-vīryair jāta-viśrambhaḥparibhāṣyābhyabhāṣata Translation: Having heard the great sages’ words concerning the power of his two sons, and having seen Their valorous deeds, Vasudeva became convinced of Their divinity. Thus, addressing Them by name, he spoke to Them as follows. Purport:

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 3 Sanskrit: कृष्ण कृष्ण महायोगिन् सङ्कर्षण सनातन ।जाने वामस्य यत् साक्षात् प्रधानपुरुषौ परौ ॥ ३ ॥ ITRANS: kṛṣṇa kṛṣṇa mahā-yoginsaṅkarṣaṇa sanātanajāne vām asya yat sākṣātpradhāna-puruṣau parau Translation: [Vasudeva said:] O Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa, best of yogīs, O eternal Saṅkarṣaṇa! I know that You two are personally the source of universal creation and the ingredients of creation as well. Purport: As taught in the Sāṅkhya doctrine of Lord Kapiladeva, pradhāna is the creative energy of the puruṣa, the Supreme Person....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 4 Sanskrit: यत्र येन यतो यस्य यस्मै यद् यद् यथा यदा ।स्यादिदं भगवान् साक्षात् प्रधानपुरुषेश्वर: ॥ ४ ॥ ITRANS: yatra yena yato yasyayasmai yad yad yathā yadāsyād idaṁ bhagavān sākṣātpradhāna-puruṣeśvaraḥ Translation: You are the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who manifest as the Lord of both nature and the creator of nature [Mahā-Viṣṇu]. Everything that comes into existence, however and whenever it does so, is created within You, by You, from You, for You and in relation to You....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 5 Sanskrit: एतन्नानाविधं विश्वमात्मसृष्टमधोक्षज ।आत्मनानुप्रविश्यात्मन् प्राणो जीवो बिभर्ष्यज ॥ ५ ॥ ITRANS: etan nānā-vidhaṁ viśvamātma-sṛṣṭam adhokṣajaātmanānupraviśyātmanprāṇo jīvo bibharṣy aja Translation: O transcendental Lord, from Yourself You created this entire variegated universe, and then You entered within it in Your personal form as the Supersoul. In this way, O unborn Supreme Soul, as the life force and consciousness of everyone, You maintain the creation....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 6 Sanskrit: प्राणादीनां विश्वसृजां शक्तयो या: परस्य ता: ।पारतन्त्र्याद् वैसाद‍ृश्याद् द्वयोश्चेष्टैव चेष्टताम् ॥ ६ ॥ ITRANS: prāṇādīnāṁ viśva-sṛjāṁśaktayo yāḥ parasya tāḥpāratantryād vaisādṛṣyāddvayoś ceṣṭaiva ceṣṭatām Translation: Whatever potencies the life air and other elements of universal creation exhibit are actually all personal energies of the Supreme Lord, for both life and matter are subordinate to Him and dependent on Him, and also different from one another....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 7 Sanskrit: कान्तिस्तेज: प्रभा सत्ता चन्द्राग्‍न्यर्कर्क्षविद्युताम् ।यत् स्थैर्यं भूभृतां भूमेर्वृत्तिर्गन्धोऽर्थतो भवान् ॥ ७ ॥ ITRANS: kāntis tejaḥ prabhā sattācandrāgny-arkarkṣa-vidyutāmyat sthairyaṁ bhū-bhṛtāṁ bhūmervṛttir gandho ’rthato bhavān Translation: The glow of the moon, the brilliance of fire, the radiance of the sun, the twinkling of the stars, the flash of lightning, the permanence of mountains and the aroma and sustaining power of the earth — all these are actually You....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 8 Sanskrit: तर्पणं प्राणनमपां देवत्वं ताश्च तद्रस: ।ओज: सहो बलं चेष्टा गतिर्वायोस्तवेश्वर ॥ ८ ॥ ITRANS: tarpaṇaṁ prāṇanam apāṁdeva tvaṁ tāś ca tad-rasaḥojaḥ saho balaṁ ceṣṭāgatir vāyos taveśvara Translation: My Lord, You are water, and also its taste and and its capacities to quench thirst and sustain life. You exhibit Your potencies through the manifestations of the air as bodily warmth, vitality, mental power, physical strength, endeavor and movement....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 9 Sanskrit: दिशां त्वमवकाशोऽसि दिश: खं स्फोट आश्रय: ।नादो वर्णस्त्वम् ॐकार आकृतीनां पृथक्कृति: ॥ ९ ॥ ITRANS: diśāṁ tvam avakāśo ’sidiśaḥ khaṁ sphoṭa āśrayaḥnādo varṇas tvam oṁkāraākṛtīnāṁ pṛthak-kṛtiḥ Translation: You are the directions and their accommodating capacity, the all-pervading ether and the elemental sound residing within it. You are the primeval, unmanifested form of sound; the first syllable, om; and audible speech, by which sound, as words, acquires particular references....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 10 Sanskrit: इन्द्रियं त्विन्द्रियाणां त्वं देवाश्च तदनुग्रह: ।अवबोधो भवान् बुद्धेर्जीवस्यानुस्मृति: सती ॥ १० ॥ ITRANS: indriyaṁ tv indriyāṇāṁ tvaṁdevāś ca tad-anugrahaḥavabodho bhavān buddherjīvasyānusmṛtiḥ satī Translation: You are the power of the senses to reveal their objects, the senses’ presiding demigods, and the sanction these demigods give for sensory activity. You are the capacity of the intelligence for decision-making, and the living being’s ability to remember things accurately....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 11 Sanskrit: भूतानामसि भूतादिरिन्द्रियाणां च तैजस: ।वैकारिको विकल्पानां प्रधानमनुशायिनम् ॥ ११ ॥ ITRANS: bhūtānām asi bhūtādirindriyāṇāṁ ca taijasaḥvaikāriko vikalpānāṁpradhānam anuśāyinam Translation: You are false ego in the mode of ignorance, which is the source of the physical elements; false ego in the mode of passion, which is the source of the bodily senses; false ego in the mode of goodness, which is the source of the demigods; and the unmanifest, total material energy, which underlies everything....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 12 Sanskrit: नश्वरेष्विह भावेषु तदसि त्वमनश्वरम् ।यथा द्रव्यविकारेषु द्रव्यमात्रं निरूपितम् ॥ १२ ॥ ITRANS: naśvareṣv iha bhāveṣutad asi tvam anaśvaramyathā dravya-vikāreṣudravya-mātraṁ nirūpitam Translation: You are the one indestructible entity among all the destructible things of this world, like the underlying substance that is seen to remain unchanged while the things made from it undergo transformations. Purport:

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 13 Sanskrit: सत्त्वं रजस्तम इति गुणास्तद्‌वृत्तयश्च या: ।त्वय्यद्धा ब्रह्मणि परे कल्पिता योगमायया ॥ १३ ॥ ITRANS: sattvam rajas tama itiguṇās tad-vṛttayaś ca yāḥtvayy addhā brahmaṇi parekalpitā yoga-māyayā Translation: The modes of material nature — namely goodness, passion and ignorance — together with all their functions, become directly manifest within You, the Supreme Absolute Truth, by the arrangement of Your Yoga-māyā. Purport: Vasudeva’s description of how the Supreme Lord expands Himself into the products of the three material modes may possibly be misunderstood to imply that He is touched by the modes, or even that He is subject to destruction....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 14 Sanskrit: तस्मान्न सन्त्यमी भावा यर्हि त्वयि विकल्पिता: ।त्वं चामीषु विकारेषु ह्यन्यदाव्यावहारिक: ॥ १४ ॥ ITRANS: tasmān na santy amī bhāvāyarhi tvayi vikalpitāḥtvaṁ cāmīṣu vikāreṣuhy anyadāvyāvahārikaḥ Translation: Thus these created entities, transformations of material nature, do not exist except when material nature manifests them within You, at which time You also manifest within them. But aside from such periods of creation, You stand alone as the transcendental reality....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 15 Sanskrit: गुणप्रवाह एतस्मिन्नबुधास्त्वखिलात्मन: ।गतिं सूक्ष्मामबोधेन संसरन्तीह कर्मभि: ॥ १५ ॥ ITRANS: guṇa-pravāha etasminnabudhās tv akhilātmanaḥgatiṁ sūkṣmām abodhenasaṁsarantīha karmabhiḥ Translation: They are truly ignorant who, while imprisoned within the ceaseless flow of this world’s material qualities, fail to know You, the Supreme Soul of all that be, as their ultimate, sublime destination. Because of their ignorance, the entanglement of material work forces such souls to wander in the cycle of birth and death....