Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 2 - Chapter 9 - Verse 20

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 2 - Chapter 1 - Verse 20 Sanskrit: श्रीभगवानुवाचत्वयाहं तोषित: सम्यग् वेदगर्भ सिसृक्षया ।चिरं भृतेन तपसा दुस्तोष: कूटयोगिनाम् ॥ २० ॥ ITRANS: śrī-bhagavān uvācatvayāhaṁ toṣitaḥ samyagveda-garbha sisṛkṣayāciraṁ bhṛtena tapasādustoṣaḥ kūṭa-yoginām Translation: The beautiful Personality of Godhead addressed Lord Brahmā: O Brahmā, impregnated with the Vedas, I am very much pleased with your long-accumulated penance with the desire for creation. Hardly am I pleased with the pseudo mystics. Purport: There are two kinds of penance: one for sense gratification and the other for self-realization....

April 22, 2023 · 2 min · TheAum

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 2 - Chapter 8 - Verse 20

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 2 - Chapter 1 - Verse 20 Sanskrit: योगेश्वरैश्वर्यगतिर्लिङ्गभङ्गस्तु योगिनाम् ।वेदोपवेदधर्माणामितिहासपुराणयो: ॥ २० ॥ ITRANS: yogeśvaraiśvarya-gatirliṅga-bhaṅgas tu yogināmvedopaveda-dharmāṇāmitihāsa-purāṇayoḥ Translation: What are the opulences of the great mystics, and what is their ultimate realization? How does the perfect mystic become detached from the subtle astral body? What is the basic knowledge of the Vedic literatures, including the branches of history and the supplementary Purāṇas? Purport: The yogeśvara, or the master of mystic powers, can exhibit eight kinds of wonders of perfection by becoming smaller than the atom or lighter than a feather, getting anything and everything he desires, going anywhere and everywhere he likes, creating even a planet in the sky, etc....

April 22, 2023 · 3 min · TheAum

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 2 - Chapter 7 - Verse 20

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 2 - Chapter 1 - Verse 20 Sanskrit: चक्रं च दिक्ष्वविहतं दशसु स्वतेजोमन्वन्तरेषु मनुवंशधरो बिभर्ति ।दुष्टेषु राजसु दमं व्यदधात् स्वकीर्तिंसत्ये त्रिपृष्ठ उशतीं प्रथयंश्चरित्रै: ॥ २० ॥ ITRANS: cakraṁ ca dikṣv avihataṁ daśasu sva-tejomanvantareṣu manu-vaṁśa-dharo bibhartiduṣṭeṣu rājasu damaṁ vyadadhāt sva-kīrtiṁsatye tri-pṛṣṭha uśatīṁ prathayaṁś caritraiḥ Translation: As the incarnation of Manu, the Lord became the descendant of the Manu dynasty and ruled over the miscreant kingly order, subduing them by His powerful wheel weapon....

April 22, 2023 · 2 min · TheAum

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 2 - Chapter 6 - Verse 20

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 2 - Chapter 1 - Verse 20 Sanskrit: पादास्त्रयो बहिश्चासन्नप्रजानां य आश्रमा: ।अन्तस्त्रिलोक्यास्त्वपरो गृहमेधोऽबृहद्‍व्रत: ॥ २० ॥ ITRANS: pādās trayo bahiś cāsannaprajānāṁ ya āśramāḥantas tri-lokyās tv aparogṛha-medho ’bṛhad-vrataḥ Translation: The spiritual world, which consists of three fourths of the Lord’s energy, is situated beyond this material world, and it is especially meant for those who will never be reborn. Others, who are attached to family life and who do not strictly follow celibacy vows, must live within the three material worlds....

April 22, 2023 · 5 min · TheAum

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 2 - Chapter 5 - Verse 20

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 2 - Chapter 1 - Verse 20 Sanskrit: स एष भगवाल्लिंङ्गैस्त्रिभिरेतैरधोक्षज: ।स्वलक्षितगतिर्ब्रह्मन् सर्वेषां मम चेश्वर: ॥ २० ॥ ITRANS: sa eṣa bhagavāḻ liṅgaistribhir etair adhokṣajaḥsvalakṣita-gatir brahmansarveṣāṁ mama ceśvaraḥ Translation: O Brāhmaṇa Nārada, the Superseer, the transcendent Lord, is beyond the perception of the material senses of the living entities because of the above-mentioned three modes of nature. But He is the controller of everyone, including me. Purport: In the Bhagavad-gītā (7....

April 22, 2023 · 2 min · TheAum

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 2 - Chapter 4 - Verse 20

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 2 - Chapter 1 - Verse 20 Sanskrit: श्रिय: पतिर्यज्ञपति: प्रजापति-र्धियां पतिर्लोकपतिर्धरापति: ।पतिर्गतिश्चान्धकवृष्णिसात्वतांप्रसीदतां मे भगवान् सतां पति: ॥ २० ॥ ITRANS: śriyaḥ patir yajña-patiḥ prajā-patirdhiyāṁ patir loka-patir dharā-patiḥpatir gatiś cāndhaka-vṛṣṇi-sātvatāṁprasīdatāṁ me bhagavān satāṁ patiḥ Translation: May Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, who is the worshipable Lord of all devotees, the protector and glory of all the kings like Andhaka and Vṛṣṇi of the Yadu dynasty, the husband of all goddesses of fortune, the director of all sacrifices and therefore the leader of all living entities, the controller of all intelligence, the proprietor of all planets, spiritual and material, and the supreme incarnation on the earth (the supreme all in all), be merciful upon me....

April 22, 2023 · 7 min · TheAum

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 2 - Chapter 3 - Verse 20

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 2 - Chapter 1 - Verse 20 Sanskrit: बिले बतोरुक्रमविक्रमान् येन श‍ृण्वत: कर्णपुटे नरस्य ।जिह्वासती दार्दुरिकेव सूतन चोपगायत्युरुगायगाथा: ॥ २० ॥ ITRANS: bile batorukrama-vikramān yena śṛṇvataḥ karṇa-puṭe narasyajihvāsatī dārdurikeva sūtana copagāyaty urugāya-gāthāḥ Translation: One who has not listened to the messages about the prowess and marvelous acts of the Personality of Godhead and has not sung or chanted loudly the worthy songs about the Lord is to be considered to possess earholes like the holes of snakes and a tongue like the tongue of a frog....

April 22, 2023 · 3 min · TheAum

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 2 - Chapter 2 - Verse 20

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 2 - Chapter 1 - Verse 20 Sanskrit: नाभ्यां स्थितं हृद्यधिरोप्य तस्मा-दुदानगत्योरसि तं नयेन्मुनि: ।ततोऽनुसन्धाय धिया मनस्वीस्वतालुमूलं शनकैर्नयेत् ॥ २० ॥ ITRANS: nābhyāṁ sthitaṁ hṛdy adhiropya tasmādudāna-gatyorasi taṁ nayen muniḥtato ’nusandhāya dhiyā manasvīsva-tālu-mūlaṁ śanakair nayeta Translation: The meditative devotee should slowly push up the life air from the navel to the heart, from there to the chest, and from there to the root of the palate. He should search out the proper places with intelligence....

April 22, 2023 · 1 min · TheAum

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 2 - Chapter 1 - Verse 20

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 2 - Chapter 1 - Verse 20 Sanskrit: रजस्तमोभ्यामाक्षिप्तं विमूढं मन आत्मन: ।यच्छेद्धारणया धीरो हन्ति या तत्कृतं मलम् ॥ २० ॥ ITRANS: rajas-tamobhyām ākṣiptaṁvimūḍhaṁ mana ātmanaḥyacched dhāraṇayā dhīrohanti yā tat-kṛtaṁ malam Translation: One’s mind is always agitated by the passionate mode of material nature and bewildered by the ignorant mode of nature. But one can rectify such conceptions by the relation of Viṣṇu and thus become pacified by cleansing the dirty things created by them....

April 22, 2023 · 2 min · TheAum

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 1 - Chapter 19 - Verse 20

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 1 - Chapter 1 - Verse 20 Sanskrit: न वा इदं राजर्षिवर्य चित्रंभवत्सु कृष्णं समनुव्रतेषु ।येऽध्यासनं राजकिरीटजुष्टंसद्यो जहुर्भगवत्पार्श्वकामा: ॥ २० ॥ ITRANS: na vā idaṁ rājarṣi-varya citraṁbhavatsu kṛṣṇaṁ samanuvrateṣuye ’dhyāsanaṁ rāja-kirīṭa-juṣṭaṁsadyo jahur bhagavat-pārśva-kāmāḥ Translation: [The sages said:] O chief of all the saintly kings of the Pāṇḍu dynasty who are strictly in the line of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa! It is not at all astonishing that you give up your throne, which is decorated with the helmets of many kings, to achieve eternal association with the Personality of Godhead....

April 21, 2023 · 3 min · TheAum

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 1 - Chapter 18 - Verse 20

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 1 - Chapter 1 - Verse 20 Sanskrit: एतावतालं ननु सूचितेनगुणैरसाम्यानतिशायनस्य ।हित्वेतरान् प्रार्थयतो विभूति-र्यस्याङ्‌घ्रिरेणुं जुषतेऽनभीप्सो: ॥ २० ॥ ITRANS: etāvatālaṁ nanu sūcitenaguṇair asāmyānatiśāyanasyahitvetarān prārthayato vibhūtiryasyāṅghri-reṇuṁ juṣate ’nabhīpsoḥ Translation: It is now ascertained that He [the Personality of Godhead] is unlimited and there is none equal to Him. Consequently no one can speak of Him adequately. Great demigods cannot obtain the favor of the goddess of fortune even by prayers, but this very goddess renders service unto the Lord, although He is unwilling to have such service....

April 21, 2023 · 2 min · TheAum

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 1 - Chapter 17 - Verse 20

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 1 - Chapter 1 - Verse 20 Sanskrit: अप्रतर्क्यादनिर्देश्यादिति केष्वपि निश्चय: ।अत्रानुरूपं राजर्षे विमृश स्वमनीषया ॥ २० ॥ ITRANS: apratarkyād anirdeśyāditi keṣv api niścayaḥatrānurūpaṁ rājarṣevimṛśa sva-manīṣayā Translation: There are also some thinkers who believe that no one can ascertain the cause of distress by argumentation, nor know it by imagination, nor express it by words. O sage amongst kings, judge for yourself by thinking over all this with your own intelligence....

April 21, 2023 · 3 min · TheAum

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 1 - Chapter 16 - Verse 20

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 1 - Chapter 1 - Verse 20 Sanskrit: पादैर्न्यूनं शोचसि मैकपाद-मात्मानं वा वृषलैर्भोक्ष्यमाणम् ।आहो सुरादीन् हृतयज्ञभागान्प्रजा उत स्विन्मघवत्यवर्षति ॥ २० ॥ ITRANS: pādair nyūnaṁ śocasi maika-pādamātmānaṁ vā vṛṣalair bhokṣyamāṇamāho surādīn hṛta-yajña-bhāgānprajā uta svin maghavaty avarṣati Translation: I have lost my three legs and am now standing on one only. Are you lamenting for my state of existence? Or are you in great anxiety because henceforward the unlawful meat-eaters will exploit you?...

April 21, 2023 · 6 min · TheAum

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 1 - Chapter 15 - Verse 20

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 1 - Chapter 1 - Verse 20 Sanskrit: सोऽहं नृपेन्द्र रहित: पुरुषोत्तमेनसख्या प्रियेण सुहृदा हृदयेन शून्य: ।अध्वन्युरुक्रमपरिग्रहमङ्ग रक्षन्गोपैरसद्भ‍िरबलेव विनिर्जितोऽस्मि ॥ २० ॥ ITRANS: so ’haṁ nṛpendra rahitaḥ puruṣottamenasakhyā priyeṇa suhṛdā hṛdayena śūnyaḥadhvany urukrama-parigraham aṅga rakṣangopair asadbhir abaleva vinirjito ’smi Translation: O Emperor, now I am separated from my friend and dearmost well-wisher, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and therefore my heart appears to be void of everything. In His absence I have been defeated by a number of infidel cowherd men while I was guarding the bodies of all the wives of Kṛṣṇa....

April 21, 2023 · 2 min · TheAum

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 1 - Chapter 14 - Verse 20

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 1 - Chapter 1 - Verse 20 Sanskrit: दैवतानि रुदन्तीव स्विद्यन्ति ह्युच्चलन्ति च ।इमे जनपदा ग्रामा: पुरोद्यानाकराश्रमा: ।भ्रष्टश्रियो निरानन्दा: किमघं दर्शयन्ति न: ॥ २० ॥ ITRANS: daivatāni rudantīvasvidyanti hy uccalanti caime jana-padā grāmāḥpurodyānākarāśramāḥbhraṣṭa-śriyo nirānandāḥkim aghaṁ darśayanti naḥ Translation: The Deities seem to be crying in the temple, lamenting and perspiring. They seem about to leave. All the cities, villages, towns, gardens, mines and hermitages are now devoid of beauty and bereft of all happiness....

April 21, 2023 · 1 min · TheAum