🪷 ŚB 10.40.12
Sanskrit, transliteration, word meanings, and translation for steady Bhāgavata reading.
Sanskrit
तुभ्यं नमस्ते त्वविषक्तदृष्टये
सर्वात्मने सर्वधियां च साक्षिणे ।
गुणप्रवाहोऽयमविद्यया कृत:
प्रवर्तते देवनृतिर्यगात्मसु ॥ १२ ॥
Transliteration
tubhyaṁ namas te tv aviṣakta-dṛṣṭaye
sarvātmane sarva-dhiyāṁ ca sākṣiṇe
guṇa-pravāho ’yam avidyayā kṛtaḥ
pravartate deva-nṛ-tiryag-ātmasu
Synonyms
tubhyam — to You; namaḥ — obeisances; te — Your; tu — and; aviṣakta — aloof; dṛṣṭaye — whose vision; sarva-ātmane — to the Soul of all; sarva — of everyone; dhiyām — of the consciousness; ca — and; sākṣiṇe — to the witness; guṇa — of the material modes; pravāhaḥ — the flow; ayam — this; avidyayā — by the force of ignorance; kṛtaḥ — created; pravartate — goes on; deva — as demigods; nṛ — humans; tiryak — and animals; ātmasu — among those who assume the identities.
Translation
I offer My obeisances to You, who as the Supreme Soul of all beings witness everyone’s consciousness with unbiased vision. The current of Your material modes, produced by the force of ignorance, flows strongly among the living beings who assume identities as demigods, humans and animals.
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ŚB 10.40.12requested verse-reference route for this Bhāgavatam reading pageŚB 10.40parent chapter route and reading-passage indexSkandha 10parent skandha chapter index/bhagavatammaster index for 12 skandhas, 335 chapters, and 13,003 reading pagesŚB 1.1.1satyaṁ paraṁ dhīmahi · the Bhāgavatam source meditationŚB 1.2.6supreme dharma as ahaitukī and apratihatā bhaktiŚB 1.2.11Brahman · Paramātmā · Bhagavān as one advaya-tattvaŚB 1.3.28kṛṣṇas tu bhagavān svayam · Krishna-pramāṇa source sealŚB 10.10.29Dāmodara/Yamala-arjuna · Krishna as supreme original PersonŚB 10.10.30-31Krishna as Kāla · Viṣṇu · Paramātmā · AntaryāmīŚB 10.10.38speech, hearing, body, mind, head, and sight offered in Krishna-sevāŚB 10.10.39Gokuleśvara bound by love, smilingŚB 10.10.40Nārada correction as anugrahaŚB 10.10.41sādhu-darśana removes bondage-darknessŚB 12.2.18Kalki witness at ŚambhalaŚB 12.3.51Kali-yuga blessing through Krishna-kīrtanaSkandha 10 līlā index20-anchor Krishna-līlā reading pathway inside the Bhāgavatam master pageBG 7.7mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat · no source higher than KrishnaBG 10.8ahaṁ sarvasya prabhavaḥ · Krishna as source of allBG 15.15Krishna seated in every heart and the target of all Veda/binduDiamond of Darśanas · Bhāgavata prema as the Bindu made rasa/philosophyKrishna = Paramaatma = Parabrahman constitutional foundation
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