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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 13: Dhṛtarāṣṭra Quits Home
1.13.181.13.20

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam · Text 1.13.19

Nirodha· Winding up
Who is speaking and story frame
Speaking:Vidurasince 1.13.18inside 1 frame: Sūta Gosvāmī → the sages at Naimiṣāraṇya

प्रतिक्रिया न यस्येह कुतश्चित्कर्हिचित्प्रभो ।

स एष भगवान् काल: सर्वेषां न: समागत: ॥ १९ ॥

pratikriyā na yasyeha

kutaścit karhicit prabho

sa eṣa bhagavān kālaḥ

sarveṣāṁ naḥ samāgataḥ

Translation

This frightful situation cannot be remedied by any person in this material world. My lord, it is the Supreme Personality of Godhead as eternal time [kāla] that has approached us all.

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

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

No Material Power Can Stop Time

  1. 1

    Eternal time approaches everyone as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. No person or material remedy can check death.

  2. 2

    Old age gives notice that death is approaching. Even scientific advancement cannot remove old age or death.

  3. 3

    Even Brahmā is subject to death and cannot grant immortality. Wherever eternal time has influence, birth, disease, old age and death remain unavoidable.

Key points from the purport
  • Before ordering, however, Vidura informed Dhṛtarāṣṭra that there was no remedial measure by anyone or from any source in this material world.
  • And because there is no such thing in the material world, death is identical with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, as it is said by the Lord Himself in the Bhagavad-gītā (10.34).
  • Death cannot be checked by anyone or from any source within this material world.

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 1.13.19 quotesBG 10.34

And because there is no such thing in the material world, death is identical with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, as it is said by the Lord Himself in the Bhagavad-gītā (10.34).

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

Bereavement → Renunciation. The worldly support system recedes and attachment is exposed.

Chapters 13–15 of Canto 1: Dhṛtarāṣṭra departs; Kṛṣṇa disappears; Pāṇḍavas retire. An editorial reading of the story's mood, not the text itself. See the emotional arc

Further reading

Chapter 13: Dhṛtarāṣṭra Quits Home

Vidura warns of inevitable death; Dhṛtarāṣṭra leaves home, and Yudhiṣṭhira finds his elders absent.

Back to this verse in chapter 1.13
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Word for word

Learn the Sanskrit words of the verse.

  1. pratikriyāremedial measure
  2. nathere is none
  3. yasyaof which
  4. ihain this material world
  5. kutaścitby any means
  6. karhicitor by anyone
  7. prabhoO my lord
  8. saḥthat
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Key ideas in this verse

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

  • Nirodha · Returning home, back to Godhead

    What happens when everything here comes to an end? · Subject 8 of 10

  • Moha · Material attachment

    The pull of ego, desire and impermanent relationships. · Theme in SB 1.13

    In this verse: “material”

  • Abhaya · Fearlessness

    Steadiness through faith amid danger and death. · Theme in SB 1.13

    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

How would remembering the limits of material protection change your priorities?

Practice

Take one quiet minute today to reflect that your time in this body is limited.

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The story around it

The story this chapter belongs to.

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Connected stories

Keep going: stories told elsewhere in the Bhāgavatam that this verse or its purport brings in.

Found where this verse or Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport names them. See all of chapter 1.13's connections

Live this todayNo Material Power Can Stop TimeThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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