🪷 ŚB 4.29.39-40

Sanskrit, transliteration, word meanings, and translation for steady Bhāgavata reading.

Sanskrit

यत्र भागवता राजन् साधवो विशदाशया: । भगवद्गुणानुकथनश्रवणव्यग्रचेतस: ॥ ३९ ॥ तस्मिन्महन्मुखरिता मधुभिच्चरित्र- पीयूषशेषसरित: परित: स्रवन्ति । ता ये पिबन्त्यवितृषो नृप गाढकर्णै- स्तान्न स्पृशन्त्यशनतृड्भयशोकमोहा: ॥ ४० ॥

Transliteration

yatra bhāgavatā rājan sādhavo viśadāśayāḥ bhagavad-guṇānukathana- śravaṇa-vyagra-cetasaḥ
Synonyms
yatra — where; bhāgavatāḥ — great devotees; rājan — O King; sādhavaḥ — saintly persons; viśada-āśayāḥ — broad-minded; bhagavat — of the Supreme Personality of Godhead; guṇa — the qualities; anukathana — to regularly recite; śravaṇa — to hear; vyagra — eager; cetasaḥ — whose consciousness; tasmin — there; mahat — of great saintly persons; mukharitāḥ — emanating from the mouths; madhu-bhit — of the killer of the Madhu demon; caritra — the activities or the character; pīyūṣa — of nectar; śeṣa — surplus; saritaḥ — rivers; paritaḥ — all around; sravanti — flow; tāḥ — all of them; ye — they who; pibanti — drink; avitṛṣaḥ — without being satisfied; nṛpa — O King; gāḍha — attentive; karṇaiḥ — with their ears; tān — them; na — never; spṛśanti — touch; aśana — hunger; tṛṭ — thirst; bhaya — fear; śoka — lamentation; mohāḥ — illusion.

Translation

My dear King, in the place where pure devotees live, following the rules and regulations and thus purely conscious and engaged with great eagerness in hearing and chanting the glories of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, in that place if one gets a chance to hear their constant flow of nectar, which is exactly like the waves of a river, one will forget the necessities of life, namely hunger and thirst, and become immune to all kinds of fear, lamentation and illusion.

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