🪷 ŚB 4.7.40
Sanskrit, transliteration, word meanings, and translation for steady Bhāgavata reading.
Sanskrit
ब्रह्मोवाच
नमस्ते श्रितसत्त्वाय धर्मादीनां च सूतये ।
निर्गुणाय च यत्काष्ठां नाहं वेदापरेऽपि च ॥ ४० ॥
Transliteration
brahmovāca
namas te śrita-sattvāya
dharmādīnāṁ ca sūtaye
nirguṇāya ca yat-kāṣṭhāṁ
nāhaṁ vedāpare ’pi ca
Synonyms
brahma — the personified Vedas; uvāca — said; namaḥ — respectful obeisances; te — unto You; śrita-sattvāya — the shelter of the quality of goodness; dharma-ādīnām — of all religion, austerity and penance; ca — and; sūtaye — the source; nirguṇāya — transcendental to material qualities; ca — and; yat — of whom (of the Supreme Lord); kāṣṭhām — the situation; na — not; aham — I; veda — know; apare — others; api — certainly; ca — and.
Translation
The personified Vedas said: We offer our respectful obeisances unto You, the Lord, the shelter of the quality of goodness and therefore the source of all religion, austerity and penance, for You are transcendental to all material qualities and no one knows You or Your actual situation.
Bhāgavatam Detail Source-Anchor Spine
This reading page exposes the requested verse-reference route, canonical received passage, parent chapter/skandha context, and the wider Bhāgavata source spine without inventing artificial verse boundaries.
ŚB 4.7.40requested verse-reference route for this Bhāgavatam reading pageŚB 4.7parent 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 source-walk 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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