Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 4 - Chapter 30

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 4 - Chapter 1 - Verse 17 Sanskrit: दिव्यवर्षसहस्राणां सहस्रमहतौजस: ।भौमान् भोक्ष्यथ भोगान् वै दिव्यांश्चानुग्रहान्मम ॥ १७ ॥ ITRANS: divya-varṣa-sahasrāṇāṁsahasram ahataujasaḥbhaumān bhokṣyatha bhogān vaidivyāṁś cānugrahān mama Translation: The Lord then blessed all the Pracetās, saying: My dear princes, by My mercy you can enjoy all the facilities of this world as well as the heavenly world. Indeed, you can enjoy all of them without hindrance and with full strength for one million celestial years....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 4 - Chapter 1 - Verse 18 Sanskrit: अथ मय्यनपायिन्या भक्त्या पक्‍वगुणाशया: ।उपयास्यथ मद्धाम निर्विद्य निरयादत: ॥ १८ ॥ ITRANS: atha mayy anapāyinyābhaktyā pakva-guṇāśayāḥupayāsyatha mad-dhāmanirvidya nirayād ataḥ Translation: Thereafter you will develop unadulterated devotional service unto Me and be freed from all material contamination. At that time, being completely unattached to material enjoyment in the so-called heavenly planets as well as in hellish planets, you will return home, back to Godhead....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 4 - Chapter 1 - Verse 19 Sanskrit: गृहेष्वाविशतां चापि पुंसां कुशलकर्मणाम् ।मद्वार्तायातयामानां न बन्धाय गृहा मता: ॥ १९ ॥ ITRANS: gṛheṣv āviśatāṁ cāpipuṁsāṁ kuśala-karmaṇāmmad-vārtā-yāta-yāmānāṁna bandhāya gṛhā matāḥ Translation: Those who are engaged in auspicious activities in devotional service certainly understand that the ultimate enjoyer or beneficiary of all activities is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Thus when one acts, he offers the results to the Supreme Personality of Godhead and passes life always engaged in the topics of the Lord....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 4 - Chapter 1 - Verse 20 Sanskrit: नव्यवद्धृदये यज्ज्ञो ब्रह्मैतद्ब्रह्मवादिभि: ।न मुह्यन्ति न शोचन्ति न हृष्यन्ति यतो गता: ॥ २० ॥ ITRANS: navyavad dhṛdaye yaj jñobrahmaitad brahma-vādibhiḥna muhyanti na śocantina hṛṣyanti yato gatāḥ Translation: Always engaging in the activities of devotional service, devotees feel ever-increasingly fresh and new in all their activities. The all-knower, the Supersoul within the heart of the devotee, makes everything increasingly fresh. This is known as the Brahman position by the advocates of the Absolute Truth....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 4 - Chapter 1 - Verse 21 Sanskrit: मैत्रेय उवाचएवं ब्रुवाणं पुरुषार्थभाजनंजनार्दनं प्राञ्जलय: प्रचेतस: ।तद्दर्शनध्वस्ततमोरजोमलागिरागृणन् गद्गदया सुहृत्तमम् ॥ २१ ॥ ITRANS: maitreya uvācaevaṁ bruvāṇaṁ puruṣārtha-bhājanaṁjanārdanaṁ prāñjalayaḥ pracetasaḥtad-darśana-dhvasta-tamo-rajo-malāgirāgṛṇan gadgadayā suhṛttamam Translation: The great sage Maitreya said: After the Personality of Godhead spoke thus, the Pracetās began to offer Him prayers. The Lord is the bestower of all success in life and is the supreme benefactor. He is also the supreme friend who takes away all miserable conditions experienced by a devotee....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 4 - Chapter 1 - Verse 23 Sanskrit: शुद्धाय शान्ताय नम: स्वनिष्ठयामनस्यपार्थं विलसद्‌द्वयाय ।नमो जगत्स्थानलयोदयेषुगृहीतमायागुणविग्रहाय ॥ २३ ॥ ITRANS: śuddhāya śāntāya namaḥ sva-niṣṭhayāmanasy apārthaṁ vilasad-dvayāyanamo jagat-sthāna-layodayeṣugṛhīta-māyā-guṇa-vigrahāya Translation: Dear Lord, we beg to offer our obeisances unto You. When the mind is fixed upon You, the world of duality, although a place for material enjoyment, appears meaningless. Your transcendental form is full of transcendental bliss. We therefore offer our respects unto You....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 4 - Chapter 1 - Verse 24 Sanskrit: नमो विशुद्धसत्त्वाय हरये हरिमेधसे ।वासुदेवाय कृष्णाय प्रभवे सर्वसात्वताम् ॥ २४ ॥ ITRANS: namo viśuddha-sattvāyaharaye hari-medhasevāsudevāya kṛṣṇāyaprabhave sarva-sātvatām Translation: Dear Lord, we offer our respectful obeisances unto You because Your existence is completely independent of all material influences. Your Lordship always takes away the devotee’s miserable conditions, for Your brain plans how to do so. You live everywhere as Paramātmā; therefore You are known as Vāsudeva....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 4 - Chapter 1 - Verse 25 Sanskrit: नम: कमलनाभाय नम: कमलमालिने ।नम: कमलपादाय नमस्ते कमलेक्षण ॥ २५ ॥ ITRANS: namaḥ kamala-nābhāyanamaḥ kamala-mālinenamaḥ kamala-pādāyanamas te kamalekṣaṇa Translation: Dear Lord, we offer our respectful obeisances unto You because from Your abdomen sprouts the lotus flower, the origin of all living entities. You are always decorated with a lotus garland, and Your feet resemble the lotus flower with all its fragrance....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 4 - Chapter 1 - Verse 26 Sanskrit: नम: कमलकिञ्जल्कपिशङ्गामलवाससे ।सर्वभूतनिवासाय नमोऽयुङ्‌क्ष्महि साक्षिणे ॥ २६ ॥ ITRANS: namaḥ kamala-kiñjalka-piśaṅgāmala-vāsasesarva-bhūta-nivāsāyanamo ’yuṅkṣmahi sākṣiṇe Translation: Dear Lord, the garment You have put on is yellowish in color, like the saffron of a lotus flower, but it is not made of anything material. Since You live in everyone’s heart, You are the direct witness of all the activities of all living entities. We offer our respectful obeisances unto You again and again....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 4 - Chapter 1 - Verse 27 Sanskrit: रूपं भगवता त्वेतदशेषक्लेशसङ्‌क्षयम् ।आविष्कृतं न: क्लिष्टानां किमन्यदनुकम्पितम् ॥ २७ ॥ ITRANS: rūpaṁ bhagavatā tv etadaśeṣa-kleśa-saṅkṣayamāviṣkṛtaṁ naḥ kliṣṭānāṁkim anyad anukampitam Translation: Dear Lord, we conditioned souls are always covered by ignorance in the bodily conception of life. We therefore always prefer the miserable conditions of material existence. To deliver us from these miserable conditions, You have advented Yourself in this transcendental form....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 4 - Chapter 1 - Verse 28 Sanskrit: एतावत्त्वं हि विभुभिर्भाव्यं दीनेषु वत्सलै: ।यदनुस्मर्यते काले स्वबुद्ध्याभद्ररन्धन ॥ २८ ॥ ITRANS: etāvat tvaṁ hi vibhubhirbhāvyaṁ dīneṣu vatsalaiḥyad anusmaryate kālesva-buddhyābhadra-randhana Translation: Dear Lord, You are the killer of all inauspicious things. You are compassionate upon Your poor devotees through the expansion of Your arcā-vigraha. You should certainly think of us as Your eternal servants. Purport: The form of the Lord known as arcā-vigraha is an expansion of His unlimited potencies....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 4 - Chapter 1 - Verse 29 Sanskrit: येनोपशान्तिर्भूतानां क्षुल्लकानामपीहताम् । अन्तर्हितोऽन्तर्हृदये कस्मान्नो वेद नाशिष: ॥ २९ ॥ ITRANS: yenopaśāntir bhūtānāṁkṣullakānām apīhatāmantarhito ’ntar-hṛdayekasmān no veda nāśiṣaḥ Translation: When the Lord, out of His natural compassion, thinks of His devotee, by that process only are all desires of the neophyte devotee fulfilled. The Lord is situated in every living entity’s heart, although the living entity may be very insignificant. The Lord knows everything about the living entity, including all his desires....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 4 - Chapter 1 - Verse 30 Sanskrit: असावेव वरोऽस्माकमीप्सितो जगत: पते ।प्रसन्नो भगवान् येषामपवर्गगुरुर्गति: ॥ ३० ॥ ITRANS: asāv eva varo ’smākamīpsito jagataḥ pateprasanno bhagavān yeṣāmapavarga-gurur gatiḥ Translation: O Lord of the universe, You are the actual teacher of the science of devotional service. We are satisfied that Your Lordship is the ultimate goal of our life, and we pray that You will be satisfied with us. That is our benediction....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 4 - Chapter 1 - Verse 31 Sanskrit: वरं वृणीमहेऽथापि नाथ त्वत्परत: परात् ।न ह्यन्तस्त्वद्विभूतीनां सोऽनन्त इति गीयसे ॥ ३१ ॥ ITRANS: varaṁ vṛṇīmahe ’thāpinātha tvat parataḥ parātna hy antas tvad-vibhūtīnāṁso ’nanta iti gīyase Translation: Dear Lord, we shall therefore pray for Your benediction because You are the Supreme, beyond all transcendence, and because there is no end to Your opulences. Consequently, You are celebrated by the name Ananta....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 4 - Chapter 1 - Verse 32 Sanskrit: पारिजातेऽञ्जसा लब्धे सारङ्गोऽन्यन्न सेवते ।त्वदङ्‌घ्रिमूलमासाद्य साक्षात्किं किं वृणीमहि ॥ ३२ ॥ ITRANS: pārijāte ’ñjasā labdhesāraṅgo ’nyan na sevatetvad-aṅghri-mūlam āsādyasākṣāt kiṁ kiṁ vṛṇīmahi Translation: Dear Lord, when the bee approaches the celestial tree called the pārijāta, it certainly does not leave the tree, because there is no need for such action. Similarly, when we have approached Your lotus feet and taken shelter of them, what further benediction may we ask of You?...