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  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 14: The Disappearance of Lord Kṛṣṇa
1.14.35-361.14.38

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam · Text 1.14.37

Īśānukathā· The Lord and His devotees
Who is speaking and story frame
Speaking:Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhirasince 1.14.25inside 1 frame: Sūta Gosvāmī → the sages at Naimiṣāraṇya

यत्पादशुश्रूषणमुख्यकर्मणा

सत्यादयो द्व्यष्टसहस्रयोषित: ।

निर्जित्य सङ्ख्ये त्रिदशांस्तदाशिषो

हरन्ति वज्रायुधवल्लभोचिता: ॥ ३७ ॥

yat-pāda-śuśrūṣaṇa-mukhya-karmaṇā

satyādayo dvy-aṣṭa-sahasra-yoṣitaḥ

nirjitya saṅkhye tri-daśāṁs tad-āśiṣo

haranti vajrāyudha-vallabhocitāḥ

Translation

Simply by administering comforts at the lotus feet of the Lord, which is the most important of all services, the queens at Dvārakā, headed by Satyabhāmā, induced the Lord to conquer the demigods. Thus the queens enjoy things which are prerogatives of the wives of the controller of thunderbolts.

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

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

The Lord Responds to Loving Service

  1. 1

    The queens of Dvārakā accepted a high quality of devotional service: providing all comforts to the Lord. In response, He played the part of a faithful and complete husband.

  2. 2

    Satyabhāmā desired the pārijāta flower for her palace, and Lord Kṛṣṇa brought it from the heavenly planets. He acted like a husband securing something to please his wife.

  3. 3

    The Lord is the proprietor of everything within His creation. Therefore, it is not astonishing that His faithful queens received rare things from anywhere in the universe.

Key points from the purport
  • Satyabhāmā: One of the principal queens of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa at Dvārakā.
  • When Satyabhāmā saw the pārijāta flower, she desired to have it in her palace at Dvārakā.
  • Satyabhāmā instigated her husband to get the pārijāta flower from the heavenly planets, and the Lord got it even by force from the demigods, as a common husband secures things to please his wife.

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

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 14: The Disappearance of Lord Kṛṣṇa

Yudhiṣṭhira observes disturbing omens and questions Arjuna about Kṛṣṇa and their relatives.

Back to this verse in chapter 1.14
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Word for word

Learn the Sanskrit words of the verse.

  1. yatwhose
  2. pādafeet
  3. śuśrūṣaṇaadministration of comforts
  4. mukhyathe most important
  5. karmaṇāby the acts of
  6. satya-ādayaḥqueens headed by Satyabhāmā
  7. dvi-aṣṭatwice eight
  8. sahasrathousand
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Key ideas in this verse

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

  • Īśānukathā · The science of God

    Who is the Lord, and how do His devotees live? · Subject 7 of 10

  • Bhakti · Devotion and loving service

    How devotion reorganizes desire and action. · Theme in SB 1.14

    In this verse: “devotional service”

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 can I give more attention to pleasing the Lord through service?

Practice

Give a few extra minutes of careful attention to one act of devotional service today.

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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 1.14's connections

Live this todayThe Lord Responds to Loving ServiceThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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