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Read one verse of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam with its Sanskrit, word meanings, translation and study points.
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam · Text 1.14.8
अपि देवर्षिणादिष्ट: स कालोऽयमुपस्थित: ।
यदात्मनोऽङ्गमाक्रीडं भगवानुत्सिसृक्षति ॥ ८ ॥
api devarṣiṇādiṣṭaḥ
sa kālo ’yam upasthitaḥ
yadātmano ’ṅgam ākrīḍaṁ
bhagavān utsisṛkṣati
Is He going to quit His earthly pastimes, as Devarṣi Nārada indicated? Has that time already arrived?
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira wondered whether the time indicated by Devarṣi Nārada had arrived for the Lord to end His earthly pastimes.
Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, has many equally powerful plenary expansions that perform different functions. As Śrī Kṛṣṇa, He exchanges transcendental relationships with His devotees.
There is no difference between the Lord’s Self and His transcendental body. His disappearance is not like the death of an ordinary living being; He never quits His transcendental body.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
The purport of SB 1.14.8 quotesBG 4.7
“Whenever and wherever there is a decline in religious practice, O descendant of Bharata, and a predominant rise of irreligion — at that time I descend Myself.”
The purport of SB 1.14.8 quotesBG 4.8
“To deliver the faithful, to annihilate the miscreants and also to reestablish the principles of occupational duty, I appear in every age.”
The purport of SB 1.14.8 quotesBG 3.24
I would also be the cause of creating unwanted population, and I would thereby destroy the peace of all sentient beings.”
The purport of SB 1.14.8 quotesBG 3.21
And whatever standards he sets by exemplary acts, all the world pursues.”
Each link is a verse the purport itself quotes, or a purport elsewhere that quotes this verse, shown with the purport's own words.
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
Yudhiṣṭhira observes disturbing omens and questions Arjuna about Kṛṣṇa and their relatives.
Back to this verse in chapter 1.14Learn the Sanskrit words of the 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
Bhakti · Devotion and loving service
How devotion reorganizes desire and action. · Theme in SB 1.14
In this verse: “devotees”
Abhaya · Fearlessness
Steadiness through faith amid danger and death. · Theme in SB 1.14
In this verse: “death”
Chapter themes come from the story phase this chapter belongs to.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Am I thinking of the Lord’s disappearance as though He were an ordinary living being?
Write and reflect on this teaching: “Kṛṣṇa never quits His transcendental body.”
The story this chapter belongs to.
Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.
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