🪷 ŚB 3.21.55

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

Sanskrit

अधर्मश्च समेधेत लोलुपैर्व्यङ्कुशैर्नृभि: । शयाने त्वयि लोकोऽयं दस्युग्रस्तो विनङ्‍क्ष्यति ॥ ५५ ॥

Transliteration

adharmaś ca samedheta lolupair vyaṅkuśair nṛbhiḥ śayāne tvayi loko ’yaṁ dasyu-grasto vinaṅkṣyati
Synonyms
adharmaḥ — unrighteousness; ca — and; samedheta — would flourish; lolupaiḥ — simply hankering after money; vyaṅkuśaiḥ — uncontrolled; nṛbhiḥ — by men; śayāne tvayi — when you lie down for rest; lokaḥ — world; ayam — this; dasyu — by the miscreants; grastaḥ — attacked; vinaṅkṣyati — it will perish.

Translation

If you gave up all thought of the world’s situation, unrighteousness would flourish, for men who hanker only after money would be unopposed. Such miscreants would attack, and the world would perish.

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ŚB 3.21.55requested verse-reference route for this Bhāgavatam reading pageŚB 3.21parent chapter route and reading-passage indexSkandha 3parent 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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