Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 3 - Chapter 32

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 19 Sanskrit: नूनं दैवेन विहता ये चाच्युतकथासुधाम् ।हित्वा श‍ृण्वन्त्यसद्गाथा: पुरीषमिव विड्भुज: ॥ १९ ॥ ITRANS: nūnaṁ daivena vihatāye cācyuta-kathā-sudhāmhitvā śṛṇvanty asad-gāthāḥpurīṣam iva viḍ-bhujaḥ Translation: Such persons are condemned by the supreme order of the Lord. Because they are averse to the nectar of the activities of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, they are compared to stool-eating hogs. They give up hearing the transcendental activities of the Lord and indulge in hearing of the abominable activities of materialistic persons....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 20 Sanskrit: दक्षिणेन पथार्यम्ण: पितृलोकं व्रजन्ति ते ।प्रजामनु प्रजायन्ते श्मशानान्तक्रियाकृत: ॥ २० ॥ ITRANS: dakṣiṇena pathāryamṇaḥpitṛ-lokaṁ vrajanti teprajām anu prajāyanteśmaśānānta-kriyā-kṛtaḥ Translation: Such materialistic persons are allowed to go to the planet called Pitṛloka by the southern course of the sun, but they again come back to this planet and take birth in their own families, beginning again the same fruitive activities from birth to the end of life....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 21 Sanskrit: ततस्ते क्षीणसुकृता: पुनर्लोकमिमं सति ।पतन्ति विवशा देवै: सद्यो विभ्रंशितोदया: ॥ २१ ॥ ITRANS: tatas te kṣīṇa-sukṛtāḥpunar lokam imaṁ satipatanti vivaśā devaiḥsadyo vibhraṁśitodayāḥ Translation: When the results of their pious activities are exhausted, they fall down by higher arrangement and again come back to this planet, just as any person raised to a high position sometimes all of a sudden falls....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 22 Sanskrit: तस्मात्त्वं सर्वभावेन भजस्व परमेष्ठिनम् ।तद्गुणाश्रयया भक्त्या भजनीयपदाम्बुजम् ॥ २२ ॥ ITRANS: tasmāt tvaṁ sarva-bhāvenabhajasva parameṣṭhinamtad-guṇāśrayayā bhaktyābhajanīya-padāmbujam Translation: My dear mother, I therefore advise that you take shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, for His lotus feet are worth worshiping. Accept this with all devotion and love, for thus you can be situated in transcendental devotional service. Purport: The word parameṣṭhinam is sometimes used in connection with Brahmā....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 23 Sanskrit: वासुदेवे भगवति भक्तियोग: प्रयोजित: ।जनयत्याशु वैराग्यं ज्ञानं यद्ब्रह्मदर्शनम् ॥ २३ ॥ ITRANS: vāsudeve bhagavatibhakti-yogaḥ prayojitaḥjanayaty āśu vairāgyaṁjñānaṁ yad brahma-darśanam Translation: Engagement in Kṛṣṇa consciousness and application of devotional service unto Kṛṣṇa make it possible to advance in knowledge and detachment, as well as in self-realization. Purport: It is said by less intelligent men that bhakti-yoga, or devotional service, is meant for persons who are not advanced in transcendental knowledge and renunciation....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 24 Sanskrit: यदास्य चित्तमर्थेषु समेष्विन्द्रियवृत्तिभि: ।न विगृह्णाति वैषम्यं प्रियमप्रियमित्युत ॥ २४ ॥ ITRANS: yadāsya cittam artheṣusameṣv indriya-vṛttibhiḥna vigṛhṇāti vaiṣamyaṁpriyam apriyam ity uta Translation: The exalted devotee’s mind becomes equipoised in sensory activities, and he is transcendental to that which is agreeable and not agreeable. Purport: The significance of advancement in transcendental knowledge and detachment from material attraction is exhibited in the personality of a highly advanced devotee....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 25 Sanskrit: स तदैवात्मनात्मानं नि:सङ्गं समदर्शनम् ।हेयोपादेयरहितमारूढं पदमीक्षते ॥ २५ ॥ ITRANS: sa tadaivātmanātmānaṁniḥsaṅgaṁ sama-darśanamheyopādeya-rahitamārūḍhaṁ padam īkṣate Translation: Because of his transcendental intelligence, the pure devotee is equipoised in his vision and sees himself to be uncontaminated by matter. He does not see anything as superior or inferior, and he feels himself elevated to the transcendental platform of being equal in qualities with the Supreme Person....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 26 Sanskrit: ज्ञानमात्रं परं ब्रह्म परमात्मेश्वर: पुमान् ।द‍ृश्यादिभि: पृथग्भावैर्भगवानेक ईयते ॥ २६ ॥ ITRANS: jñāna-mātraṁ paraṁ brahmaparamātmeśvaraḥ pumāndṛśy-ādibhiḥ pṛthag bhāvairbhagavān eka īyate Translation: The Supreme Personality of Godhead alone is complete transcendental knowledge, but according to the different processes of understanding He appears differently, either as impersonal Brahman, as Paramātmā, as the Supreme Personality of Godhead or as the puruṣa-avatāra. Purport: The word dṛśy-ādibhiḥ is significant....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 27 Sanskrit: एतावानेव योगेन समग्रेणेह योगिन: ।युज्यतेऽभिमतो ह्यर्थो यदसङ्गस्तु कृत्स्‍नश: ॥ २७ ॥ ITRANS: etāvān eva yogenasamagreṇeha yoginaḥyujyate ’bhimato hy arthoyad asaṅgas tu kṛtsnaśaḥ Translation: The greatest common understanding for all yogīs is complete detachment from matter, which can be achieved by different kinds of yoga. Purport: There are three kinds of yoga, namely bhakti-yoga, jñāna-yoga and aṣṭāṅga-yoga. Devotees, jñānīs and yogīs all try to get out of the material entanglement....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 28 Sanskrit: ज्ञानमेकं पराचीनैरिन्द्रियैर्ब्रह्म निर्गुणम् ।अवभात्यर्थरूपेण भ्रान्त्या शब्दादिधर्मिणा ॥ २८ ॥ ITRANS: jñānam ekaṁ parācīnairindriyair brahma nirguṇamavabhāty artha-rūpeṇabhrāntyā śabdādi-dharmiṇā Translation: Those who are averse to the Transcendence realize the Supreme Absolute Truth differently through speculative sense perception, and therefore, because of mistaken speculation, everything appears to them to be relative. Purport: The Supreme Absolute Truth, the Personality of Godhead, is one, and He is spread everywhere by His impersonal feature....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 29 Sanskrit: यथा महानहंरूपस्त्रिवृत्पञ्चविध: स्वराट् ।एकादशविधस्तस्य वपुरण्डं जगद्यत: ॥ २९ ॥ ITRANS: yathā mahān ahaṁ-rūpastri-vṛt pañca-vidhaḥ svarāṭekādaśa-vidhas tasyavapur aṇḍaṁ jagad yataḥ Translation: From the total energy, the mahat-tattva, I have manifested the false ego, the three modes of material nature, the five material elements, the individual consciousness, the eleven senses and the material body. Similarly, the entire universe has come from the Supreme Personality of Godhead....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 30 Sanskrit: एतद्वै श्रद्धया भक्त्या योगाभ्यासेन नित्यश: ।समाहितात्मा नि:सङ्गो विरक्त्या परिपश्यति ॥ ३० ॥ ITRANS: etad vai śraddhayā bhaktyāyogābhyāsena nityaśaḥsamāhitātmā niḥsaṅgoviraktyā paripaśyati Translation: This perfect knowledge can be achieved by a person who is already engaged in devotional service with faith, steadiness and full detachment, and who is always absorbed in thought of the Supreme. He is aloof from material association. Purport: The atheistic mystic practitioner of yoga cannot understand this perfect knowledge....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 31 Sanskrit: इत्येतत्कथितं गुर्वि ज्ञानं तद्ब्रह्म-दर्शनम् ।येनानुबुद्ध्यते तत्त्वं प्रकृते: पुरुषस्य च ॥ ३१ ॥ ITRANS: ity etat kathitaṁ gurvijñānaṁ tad brahma-darśanamyenānubuddhyate tattvaṁprakṛteḥ puruṣasya ca Translation: My dear respectful mother, I have already described the path of understanding the Absolute Truth, by which one can come to understand the real truth of matter and spirit and their relationship. Purport:

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 32 Sanskrit: ज्ञानयोगश्च मन्निष्ठो नैर्गुण्यो भक्तिलक्षण: ।द्वयोरप्येक एवार्थो भगवच्छब्दलक्षण: ॥ ३२ ॥ ITRANS: jñāna-yogaś ca man-niṣṭhonairguṇyo bhakti-lakṣaṇaḥdvayor apy eka evārthobhagavac-chabda-lakṣaṇaḥ Translation: Philosophical research culminates in understanding the Supreme Personality of Godhead. After achieving this understanding, when one becomes free from the material modes of nature, he attains the stage of devotional service. Either by devotional service directly or by philosophical research, one has to find the same destination, which is the Supreme Personality of Godhead....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 33 Sanskrit: यथेन्द्रियै: पृथग्द्वारैरर्थो बहुगुणाश्रय: ।एको नानेयते तद्वद्भगवान्शास्त्रवर्त्मभि: ॥ ३३ ॥ ITRANS: yathendriyaiḥ pṛthag-dvārairartho bahu-guṇāśrayaḥeko nāneyate tadvadbhagavān śāstra-vartmabhiḥ Translation: A single object is appreciated differently by different senses due to its having different qualities. Similarly, the Supreme Personality of Godhead is one, but according to different scriptural injunctions He appears to be different. Purport: It appears that by following the path of jñāna-yoga, or empiric philosophical speculation, one reaches the impersonal Brahman, whereas by executing devotional service in Kṛṣṇa consciousness one enriches his faith in and devotion to the Personality of Godhead....