🪷 ŚB 8.6.13

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

Sanskrit

तं त्वां वयं नाथ समुज्जिहानं सरोजनाभातिचिरेप्सितार्थम् । द‍ृष्ट्वा गता निर्वृतमद्य सर्वे गजा दवार्ता इव गाङ्गमम्भ: ॥ १३ ॥

Transliteration

taṁ tvāṁ vayaṁ nātha samujjihānaṁ saroja-nābhāticirepsitārtham dṛṣṭvā gatā nirvṛtam adya sarve gajā davārtā iva gāṅgam ambhaḥ
Synonyms
tam — O Lord; tvām — Your Lordship; vayam — all of us; nātha — O master; samujjihānam — now appearing before us with all glories; saroja-nābha — O Lord, whose navel resembles a lotus flower, or from whose navel grows a lotus flower; ati-cira — for an extremely long time; īpsita — desiring; artham — for the ultimate goal of life; dṛṣṭvā — seeing; gatāḥ — in our vision; nirvṛtam — transcendental happiness; adya — today; sarve — all of us; gajāḥ — elephants; dava-artāḥ — being afflicted in a forest fire; iva — like; gāṅgam ambhaḥ — with water from the Ganges.

Translation

Elephants afflicted by a forest fire become very happy when they get water from the Ganges. Similarly, O my Lord, from whose navel grows a lotus flower, since You have now appeared before us, we have become transcendentally happy. By seeing Your Lordship, whom we have desired to see for a very long time, we have achieved our ultimate goal in life.

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ŚB 8.6.13requested verse-reference route for this Bhāgavatam reading pageŚB 8.6parent chapter route and reading-passage indexSkandha 8parent 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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