🪷 ŚB 4.20.23

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

Sanskrit

पृथुरुवाच वरान्विभो त्वद्वरदेश्वराद् बुध: कथं वृणीते गुणविक्रियात्मनाम् । ये नारकाणामपि सन्ति देहिनां तानीश कैवल्यपते वृणे न च ॥ २३ ॥

Transliteration

pṛthur uvāca varān vibho tvad varadeśvarād budhaḥ kathaṁ vṛṇīte guṇa-vikriyātmanām ye nārakāṇām api santi dehināṁ tān īśa kaivalya-pate vṛṇe na ca
Synonyms
pṛthuḥ uvāca — Pṛthu Mahārāja said; varān — benedictions; vibho — my dear Supreme Lord; tvat — from You; vara-da-īśvarāt — from the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the highest of the bestowers of benedictions; budhaḥ — a learned person; katham — how; vṛṇīte — could ask for; guṇa-vikriyā — bewildered by the modes of material nature; ātmanām — of the living entities; ye — which; nārakāṇām — of the living entities living in hell; api — also; santi — exist; dehinām — of the embodied; tān — all those; īśa — O Supreme Lord; kaivalya-pate — O bestower of merging in the existence of the Lord; vṛṇe — I ask for; na — not; ca — also.

Translation

My dear Lord, You are the best of the demigods who can offer benedictions. Why, therefore, should any learned person ask You for benedictions meant for living entities bewildered by the modes of nature? Such benedictions are available automatically, even in the lives of living entities suffering in hellish conditions. My dear Lord, You can certainly bestow merging into Your existence, but I do not wish to have such a benediction.

Sources and Connected Bhāgavata Readings

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ŚB 4.20.23requested verse-reference route for this Bhāgavatam reading pageŚB 4.20parent chapter route and reading-passage indexSkandha 4parent 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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