🪷 ŚB 4.26.21

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

Sanskrit

पुरञ्जन उवाच नूनं त्वकृतपुण्यास्ते भृत्या येष्वीश्वरा: शुभे । कृताग:स्वात्मसात्कृत्वा शिक्षादण्डं न युञ्जते ॥ २१ ॥

Transliteration

purañjana uvāca nūnaṁ tv akṛta-puṇyās te bhṛtyā yeṣv īśvarāḥ śubhe kṛtāgaḥsv ātmasāt kṛtvā śikṣā-daṇḍaṁ na yuñjate
Synonyms
purañjanaḥ uvāca — Purañjana said; nūnam — certainly; tu — then; akṛta-puṇyāḥ — those who are not pious; te — such; bhṛtyāḥ — servants; yeṣu — unto whom; īśvarāḥ — the masters; śubhe — O most auspicious one; kṛta-āgaḥsu — having committed an offense; ātmasāt — accepting as their own; kṛtvā — doing so; śikṣā — instructive; daṇḍam — punishment; na yuñjate — do not give.

Translation

King Purañjana said: My dear beautiful wife, when a master accepts a servant as his own man, but does not punish him for his offenses, the servant must be considered unfortunate.

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ŚB 4.26.21requested verse-reference route for this Bhāgavatam reading pageŚB 4.26parent 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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