🪷 ŚB 5.13.9
Sanskrit, transliteration, word meanings, and translation for steady Bhāgavata reading.
Sanskrit
क्वचिन्निगीर्णोऽजगराहिना जनो
नावैति किञ्चिद्विपिनेऽपविद्ध: ।
दष्ट: स्म शेते क्व च दन्दशूकै-
रन्धोऽन्धकूपे पतितस्तमिस्रे ॥ ९ ॥
Transliteration
kvacin nigīrṇo ’jagarāhinā jano
nāvaiti kiñcid vipine ’paviddhaḥ
daṣṭaḥ sma śete kva ca danda-śūkair
andho ’ndha-kūpe patitas tamisre
Synonyms
kvacit — sometimes; nigīrṇaḥ — being swallowed; ajagara-ahinā — by the great snake known as the python; janaḥ — the conditioned soul; na — not; avaiti — understands; kiñcit — anything; vipine — in the forest; apaviddhaḥ — pierced by arrows of suffering; daṣṭaḥ — being bitten; sma — indeed; śete — lies down; kva ca — sometimes; danda-śūkaiḥ — by other kinds of snakes; andhaḥ — blind; andha-kūpe — in a blind well; patitaḥ — fallen; tamisre — in a hellish condition of life.
Translation
The conditioned soul in the material forest is sometimes swallowed by a python or crushed. At such a time he is left lying in the forest like a dead person, devoid of consciousness and knowledge. Sometimes other poisonous snakes bite him. Being blind to his consciousness, he falls down into a dark well of hellish life with no hope of being rescued.
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ŚB 5.13.9requested verse-reference route for this Bhāgavatam reading pageŚB 5.13parent chapter route and reading-passage indexSkandha 5parent 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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