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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 8: Prayers by Queen Kuntī and Parīkṣit Saved
1.8.341.8.36

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam · Text 1.8.35

Mukti· Liberation
Who is speaking and story frame
Speaking:Queen Kuntīsince 1.8.18inside 1 frame: Sūta Gosvāmī → the sages at Naimiṣāraṇya

भवेऽस्मिन् क्लिश्यमानानामविद्याकामकर्मभि: ।

श्रवणस्मरणार्हाणि करिष्यन्निति केचन ॥ ३५ ॥

bhave ’smin kliśyamānānām

avidyā-kāma-karmabhiḥ

śravaṇa-smaraṇārhāṇi

kariṣyann iti kecana

Translation

And yet others say that You appeared for the sake of rejuvenating the devotional service of hearing, remembering, worshiping and so on in order that the conditioned souls suffering from material pangs might take advantage and gain liberation.

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 Revives Loving Devotional Service

  1. 1

    The factual way of religion is to accept the Lord as the supreme authority and serve Him in spontaneous love. Rendering service to Him is the living being’s natural function.

  2. 2

    Through material desire and misunderstanding, living beings become servants of their senses. This ignorance entangles them in repeated birth and death and the miseries of material life.

  3. 3

    Out of causeless mercy, the Lord renews hearing, chanting, remembering and the other practices of devotional service. Adopting even one of these can free a conditioned soul from ignorance and material suffering.

Key points from the purport
  • The only function of the living being is to render service to the Lord.
  • Therefore, the duty of the living being is just to serve Him only.
  • The Lord, however, out of His causeless mercy, because He is more merciful to the suffering living beings than they can expect, appears before them and renovates the principles of devotional service comprised of hearing, chanting, remembering, serving, worshiping, praying, cooperating and surrendering unto Him.

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

Grief → Trust. Violence and bereavement make Kṛṣṇa's protective presence precious.

Chapters 7–9 of Canto 1: Postwar anguish, Kuntī and Bhīṣma. An editorial reading of the story's mood, not the text itself. See the emotional arc

Further reading

Chapter 8: Prayers by Queen Kuntī and Parīkṣit Saved

Kṛṣṇa protects Parīkṣit, Kuntī prays for undivided attraction to Him, and Yudhiṣṭhira grieves.

Back to this verse in chapter 1.8
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Word for word

Learn the Sanskrit words of the verse.

  1. bhavein the material creation
  2. asminthis
  3. kliśyamānānāmof those who are suffering from
  4. avidyānescience
  5. kāmadesire
  6. karmabhiḥby execution of fruitive work
  7. śravaṇahearing
  8. smaraṇaremembering
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Key ideas in this verse

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

  • Mukti · Liberation

    What is real freedom for the soul? · Subject 9 of 10

  • Bhakti · Devotion and loving service

    How devotion reorganizes desire and action. · Theme in SB 1.8

    In this verse: “devotional service”, “worshiping”

  • Kīrtana · Hearing and chanting

    Remembering the Lord through sacred sound. · Theme in SB 1.8

    In this verse: “hearing”, “chanting”

  • Karuṇā · Compassion

    Concern for others expressed through bhakti. · Theme in SB 1.8

    In this verse: “suffering”

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

Which practice of devotional service can help me turn from serving my senses to serving the Lord?

Practice

Spend five minutes reading this verse aloud and remembering the Lord’s mercy.

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The story around it

The story this chapter belongs to.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda speaks

His recorded lectures on this verse, and the talks where he quotes it.

2 lectures given on it · quoted in 1 more lecture. Recordings and transcripts on prabhupada.io.

Quoted in 1 other lecture

In each of these he quotes this verse while speaking on another verse or subject. "Find the quote" opens the transcript at that spot.

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

Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.

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