🪷 ŚB 7.8.24

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

Sanskrit

अलक्षितोऽग्नौ पतित: पतङ्गमो यथा नृसिंहौजसि सोऽसुरस्तदा । न तद्विचित्रं खलु सत्त्वधामनि स्वतेजसा यो नु पुरापिबत् तम: ॥ २४ ॥

Transliteration

alakṣito ’gnau patitaḥ pataṅgamo yathā nṛsiṁhaujasi so ’suras tadā na tad vicitraṁ khalu sattva-dhāmani sva-tejasā yo nu purāpibat tamaḥ
Synonyms
alakṣitaḥ — invisible; agnau — in the fire; patitaḥ — fallen; pataṅgamaḥ — an insect; yathā — just as; nṛsiṁha — of Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva; ojasi — in the effulgence; saḥ — he; asuraḥ — Hiraṇyakaśipu; tadā — at that time; na — not; tat — that; vicitram — wonderful; khalu — indeed; sattva-dhāmani — in the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is situated in pure goodness; sva-tejasā — by His own effulgence; yaḥ — He who (the Lord); nu — indeed; purā — formerly; apibat — swallowed up; tamaḥ — the darkness within the material creation.

Translation

Just as a small insect falls forcefully into a fire and the insignificant creature becomes invisible, when Hiraṇyakaśipu attacked the Lord, who was full of effulgence, Hiraṇyakaśipu became invisible. This is not at all astonishing, for the Lord is always situated in pure goodness. Formerly, during creation, He entered the dark universe and illuminated it by His spiritual effulgence.

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ŚB 7.8.24requested verse-reference route for this Bhāgavatam reading pageŚB 7.8parent chapter route and reading-passage indexSkandha 7parent 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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