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Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 4 Sanskrit: सहाचला भुवश्चेलुर्दिश: सर्वा:प्रजज्वलु: ।सोल्काश्चाशनय: पेतु: केतवश्चार्तिहेतव: ॥ ४ ॥ ITRANS: sahācalā bhuvaś celurdiśaḥ sarvāḥ prajajvaluḥsolkāś cāśanayaḥ petuḥketavaś cārti-hetavaḥ Translation: There were earthquakes along the mountains on the earth, and it appeared that there was fire everywhere. Many inauspicious planets like Saturn appeared, along with comets, meteors and thunderbolts. Purport: When natural disturbances occur on a planet, one should understand that a demon must have taken birth there....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 4 Sanskrit: तद्व: प्रसादयाम्यद्य ब्रह्म दैवं परं हि मे ।तद्धीत्यात्मकृतं मन्ये यत्स्वपुम्भिरसत्कृता: ॥ ४ ॥ ITRANS: tad vaḥ prasādayāmy adyabrahma daivaṁ paraṁ hi metad dhīty ātma-kṛtaṁ manyeyat sva-pumbhir asat-kṛtāḥ Translation: To Me, the brāhmaṇa is the highest and most beloved personality. The disrespect shown by My attendants has actually been displayed by Me because the doormen are My servitors. I take this to be an offense by Myself; therefore I seek your forgiveness for the incident that has arisen....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 4 Sanskrit: देवदेव जगद्धातर्लोकनाथशिखामणे ।परेषामपरेषां त्वं भूतानामसि भाववित् ॥ ४ ॥ ITRANS: deva-deva jagad-dhātarlokanātha-śikhāmaṇepareṣām apareṣāṁ tvaṁbhūtānām asi bhāva-vit Translation: O god of the demigods, sustainer of the universe, head jewel of all the demigods in other planets, you know the intentions of all living entities, in both the spiritual and material worlds. Purport: Because Brahmā is almost on an equal footing with the Personality of Godhead, he is addressed here as the god of the demigods, and because he is the secondary creator of this universe, he is addressed as the sustainer of the universe....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 4 Sanskrit: श्रद्दधानाय भक्ताय ब्रूहि तज्जन्मविस्तरम् ।ऋषे न तृप्यति मन: परं कौतूहलं हि मे ॥ ४ ॥ ITRANS: śraddadhānāya bhaktāyabrūhi taj-janma-vistaramṛṣe na tṛpyati manaḥparaṁ kautūhalaṁ hi me Translation: My mind has become very inquisitive, and therefore I am not satisfied with hearing the narration of the Lord’s appearance. Please, therefore, speak more and more to a devotee who is faithful. Purport: One who is actually faithful and inquisitive is qualified to hear the transcendental pastimes of the appearance and disappearance of the Supreme Personality of Godhead....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 4 Sanskrit: श्रुतस्य पुंसां सुचिरश्रमस्यनन्वञ्जसा सूरिभिरीडितोऽर्थ: ।तत्तद्गुणानुश्रवणं मुकुन्द-पादारविन्द हृदयेषु येषाम् ॥ ४ ॥ ITRANS: śrutasya puṁsāṁ sucira-śramasyananv añjasā sūribhir īḍito ’rthaḥtat-tad-guṇānuśravaṇaṁ mukunda-pādāravindaṁ hṛdayeṣu yeṣām Translation: Persons who hear from a spiritual master with great labor and for a long time must hear from the mouths of pure devotees about the character and activities of pure devotees. Pure devotees always think within their hearts of the lotus feet of the Personality of Godhead, who awards His devotees liberation....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 4 Sanskrit: सनकं च सनन्दं च सनातनमथात्मभू: ।सनत्कुमारं च मुनीन्निष्क्रियानूर्ध्वरेतस: ॥ ४ ॥ ITRANS: sanakaṁ ca sanandaṁ casanātanam athātmabhūḥsanat-kumāraṁ ca munīnniṣkriyān ūrdhva-retasaḥ Translation: In the beginning, Brahmā created four great sages named Sanaka, Sananda, Sanātana and Sanat-kumāra. All of them were unwilling to adopt materialistic activities because they were highly elevated due to their semen’s flowing upwards. Purport: Although Brahmā created the principles of nescience as a matter of necessity for those living entities who were destined to ignorance by the will of the Lord, he was not satisfied in performing such a thankless task....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 4 Sanskrit: स काल: परमाणुर्वै यो भुङ्क्ते परमाणुताम् ।सतोऽविशेषभुग्यस्तु स काल: परमो महान् ॥ ४ ॥ ITRANS: sa kālaḥ paramāṇur vaiyo bhuṅkte paramāṇutāmsato ’viśeṣa-bhug yas tusa kālaḥ paramo mahān Translation: Atomic time is measured according to its covering a particular atomic space. That time which covers the unmanifest aggregate of atoms is called the great time. Purport: Time and space are two correlative terms....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 4 Sanskrit: मैत्रेय उवाचविरिञ्चोऽपि तथा चक्रे दिव्यं वर्षशतं तप: ।आत्मन्यात्मानमावेश्य यथाह भगवानज: ॥ ४ ॥ ITRANS: maitreya uvācaviriñco ’pi tathā cakredivyaṁ varṣa-śataṁ tapaḥātmany ātmānam āveśyayathāha bhagavān ajaḥ Translation: The greatly learned sage Maitreya said: O Vidura, Brahmā thus engaged himself in penances for one hundred celestial years, as advised by the Personality of Godhead, and applied himself in devotional service to the Lord....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 4 Sanskrit: तद्वा इदं भुवनमङ्गल मङ्गलायध्याने स्म नो दर्शितं त उपासकानाम् ।तस्मै नमो भगवतेऽनुविधेम तुभ्यंयोऽनाद‍ृतो नरकभाग्भिरसत्प्रसङ्गै: ॥ ४ ॥ ITRANS: tad vā idaṁ bhuvana-maṅgala maṅgalāyadhyāne sma no darśitaṁ ta upāsakānāmtasmai namo bhagavate ’nuvidhema tubhyaṁyo ’nādṛto naraka-bhāgbhir asat-prasaṅgaiḥ Translation: This present form, or any transcendental form expanded by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, is equally auspicious for all the universes. Since You have manifested this eternal personal form upon whom Your devotees meditate, I therefore offer my respectful obeisances unto You....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 4 Sanskrit: स्वमेव धिष्ण्यं बहु मानयन्तंयद्वासुदेवाभिधमामनन्ति ।प्रत्यग्धृताक्षाम्बुजकोशमीष-दुन्मीलयन्तं विबुधोदयाय ॥ ४ ॥ ITRANS: svam eva dhiṣṇyaṁ bahu mānayantaṁyad vāsudevābhidham āmanantipratyag-dhṛtākṣāmbuja-kośam īṣadunmīlayantaṁ vibudhodayāya Translation: At that time Lord Saṅkarṣaṇa was meditating upon His Supreme Lord, whom the learned esteem as Lord Vāsudeva, but for the sake of the advancement of the great learned sages He slightly opened His lotus like eyes and began to speak....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 4 Sanskrit: अस्राक्षीद्भगवान् विश्वं गुणमय्यात्ममायया ।तया संस्थापयत्येतद्भूय: प्रत्यपिधास्यति ॥ ४ ॥ ITRANS: asrākṣīd bhagavān viśvaṁguṇa-mayyātma-māyayātayā saṁsthāpayaty etadbhūyaḥ pratyapidhāsyati Translation: By His self-sheltered potency of the three modes of material nature, the Lord has caused the creation of this universe. By her He maintains the creation and conversely dissolves it, again and again. Purport: This cosmic universe is created by the Lord for those living entities who are carried away by the illusory thought of becoming one with Him by imitation....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 4 Sanskrit: प्रबुद्धकर्मा दैवेन त्रयोविंशतिको गण: ।प्रेरितोऽजनयत्स्वाभिर्मात्राभिरधिपूरुषम् ॥ ४ ॥ ITRANS: prabuddha-karmā daivenatrayoviṁśatiko gaṇaḥprerito ’janayat svābhirmātrābhir adhipūruṣam Translation: When the twenty-three principal elements were set in action by the will of the Supreme, the gigantic universal form, or the viśvarūpa body of the Lord, came into existence. Purport: The virāṭ-rūpa or viśva-rūpa, the gigantic universal form of the Lord, which is very much appreciated by the impersonalist, is not an eternal form of the Lord....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 4 Sanskrit: तत्साधुवर्यादिश वर्त्म शं न:संराधितो भगवान् येन पुंसाम् ।हृदि स्थितो यच्छति भक्तिपूतेज्ञानं सतत्त्वाधिगमं पुराणम् ॥ ४ ॥ ITRANS: tat sādhu-varyādiśa vartma śaṁ naḥsaṁrādhito bhagavān yena puṁsāmhṛdi sthito yacchati bhakti-pūtejñānaṁ sa-tattvādhigamaṁ purāṇam Translation: Therefore, O great sage, please give me instruction on the transcendental devotional service of the Lord, so that He who is situated in the heart of everyone can be pleased to impart, from within, knowledge of the Absolute Truth in terms of the ancient Vedic principles delivered only to those who are purified by the process of devotional service....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 4 Sanskrit: अहं चोक्तो भगवता प्रपन्नार्तिहरेण ह ।बदरीं त्वं प्रयाहीति स्वकुलं संजिहीर्षुणा ॥ ४ ॥ ITRANS: ahaṁ cokto bhagavatāprapannārti-hareṇa habadarīṁ tvaṁ prayāhītisva-kulaṁ sañjihīrṣuṇā Translation: The Lord is the vanquisher of the distresses of one who is surrendered unto Him. Thus He who desired to destroy His family told me previously to go to Badarikāśrama. Purport: While at Dvārakā, Uddhava was warned to avoid the distresses which were to follow the disappearance of the Lord and the destruction of the Yadu dynasty....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 3 - Chapter 1 - Verse 4 Sanskrit: ककुद्मिनोऽविद्धनसो दमित्वास्वयंवरे नाग्नजितीमुवाह ।तद्भग्नमानानपि गृध्यतोऽज्ञा-ञ्जघ्नेऽक्षत: शस्त्रभृत: स्वशस्त्रै: ॥ ४ ॥ ITRANS: kakudmino ’viddha-naso damitvāsvayaṁvare nāgnajitīm uvāhatad-bhagnamānān api gṛdhyato ’jñāñjaghne ’kṣataḥ śastra-bhṛtaḥ sva-śastraiḥ Translation: By subduing seven bulls whose noses were not pierced, the Lord achieved the hand of Princess Nāgnijitī in the open competition to select her bridegroom. Although the Lord was victorious, His competitors asked the hand of the princess, and thus there was a fight....