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How to study this verse, in six steps
  1. 1Chant the verse. Say the Sanskrit slowly and carefully.
  2. 2Read the word meanings. Go through each Sanskrit word and its meaning.
  3. 3Find the meaning yourself. Before the translation, piece the meaning together from the words.
  4. 4Read the translation. Ask: what is the Lord teaching here, and how does it apply to my life?
  5. 5Read the purport slowly. Read it two or three times. Don't rush.
  6. 6Write down what touched you. Note the main points in your own notebook.
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Canto 1 · Chapter 10: Departure of Lord Kṛṣṇa for Dvārakā
1.10.211.10.23

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam · Text 1.10.22

Sarga· Creation
Who is speaking and story frame
Speaking:Sūta Gosvāmīsince 1.10.2inside 1 frame: Sūta Gosvāmī → the sages at Naimiṣāraṇya

स एव भूयो निजवीर्यचोदितां

स्वजीवमायां प्रकृतिं सिसृक्षतीम् ।

अनामरूपात्मनि रूपनामनी

विधित्समानोऽनुससार शास्त्रकृत् ॥ २२ ॥

sa eva bhūyo nija-vīrya-coditāṁ

sva-jīva-māyāṁ prakṛtiṁ sisṛkṣatīm

anāma-rūpātmani rūpa-nāmanī

vidhitsamāno ’nusasāra śāstra-kṛt

Translation

The Personality of Godhead, again desiring to give names and forms to His parts and parcels, the living entities, placed them under the guidance of material nature. By His own potency, material nature is empowered to re-create.

Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.io
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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Scripture Revives Our Relationship With the Lord

  1. 1

    Living entities are parts and parcels of the Lord. Eternally liberated souls lovingly serve Him in His eternal abode, while conditioned souls forget their relationship with Him.

  2. 2

    Material nature works under the Lord’s control, repeatedly creating and dissolving the material world. Conditioned souls receive repeated opportunities to become free from the external energy.

  3. 3

    The Lord provides revealed scriptures to revive our consciousness of our relationship with Him. These teachings help us look beyond material names and forms and escape repeated birth and death.

Key points from the purport
  • The living entities are parts and parcels of the Lord.
  • The Lord says in the Bhagavad-gītā, “This created world and material energy are under My control.
  • But in order to fulfill their desire to lord it over the material energy of material forms and names, they are given a chance for such false enjoyment, and at the same time they are given a chance to understand the real position through the revealed scriptures.

Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.

Connected verses· 1

The purport of SB 1.10.22 quotesBG 9.7

This is confirmed in the Bhagavad-gītā (9.7) as follows: “O son of Kuntī, at the end of the millennium all the living entities merge into My nature, and again when the time of creation is ripe, I begin creation by the agency of My external energy.”

Each link is a verse the purport itself quotes, or a purport elsewhere that quotes this verse, shown with the purport's own words.

How it feels

Longing → Joy and continuity. Departure and welcome coexist; Parīkṣit embodies continuity of grace.

Chapters 10–12 of Canto 1: Kṛṣṇa returns to Dvārakā; Parīkṣit is born. An editorial reading of the story's mood, not the text itself. See the emotional arc

Further reading

Chapter 10: Departure of Lord Kṛṣṇa for Dvārakā

Kṛṣṇa leaves Hastināpura for Dvārakā amid His relatives’ affection and praise.

Back to this verse in chapter 1.10
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Word for word

Learn the Sanskrit words of the verse.

  1. saḥHe
  2. evathus
  3. bhūyaḥagain
  4. nijaown personal
  5. vīryapotency
  6. coditāmperformance of
  7. svaown
  8. jīvaliving being
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Key ideas in this verse

The subject this verse serves and the themes it speaks of.

  • Sarga · The creation of the universe

    Where does the universe come from? · Subject 1 of 10

  • Moha · Material attachment

    The pull of ego, desire and impermanent relationships. · Theme in SB 1.10

    In this verse: “material”

  • Vairāgya · Freedom from attachment

    Release from possessiveness and false identities. · Theme in SB 1.10

    In this verse: “free from”

  • Abhaya · Fearlessness

    Steadiness through faith amid danger and death. · Theme in SB 1.10

    In this verse: “death”

Chapter themes come from the story phase this chapter belongs to.

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

Which material name or identity tends to make me forget that I am part and parcel of the Lord?

Practice

Set aside five minutes today to read the Bhagavad-gītā as guidance for remembering your relationship with the Lord.

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The story around it

The story this chapter belongs to.

Live this todayScripture Revives Our Relationship With the LordThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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