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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 10 · Chapter 24: Worshiping Govardhana Hill
10.24.2910.24.31

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam · Text 10.24.30

Īśānukathā· The Lord and His devotees
Who is speaking and story frame
Speaking:Lord Kṛṣṇasince 10.24.13inside 2 frames: Sūta Gosvāmī → the sages at NaimiṣāraṇyaŚukadeva Gosvāmī → King Parīkṣit

एतन्मम मतं तात क्रियतां यदि रोचते । अयं गोब्राह्मणाद्रीणां मह्यं च दयितो मख: ॥ ३० ॥

etan mama mataṁ tāta

kriyatāṁ yadi rocate

ayaṁ go-brāhmaṇādrīṇāṁ

mahyaṁ ca dayito makhaḥ

Translation

This is My idea, O father, and you may carry it out if it appeals to you. Such a sacrifice will be very dear to the cows, the brāhmaṇas and Govardhana Hill, and also to Me.

Read the purport on Vedabase.io

From Canto 10, chapter 14 onward, the translation and purports were completed by Śrīla Prabhupāda's disciples after his departure, and published by the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust.

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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Pleasing Kṛṣṇa Benefits the World

  1. 1

    Kṛṣṇa presents His proposal to His father and invites him to carry it out if it appeals to him.

  2. 2

    The sacrifice is dear to the cows, the brāhmaṇas, Govardhana Hill and Kṛṣṇa Himself.

  3. 3

    Pleasing the brāhmaṇas, cows and the Supreme Lord is auspicious and beneficial for the whole world. The purport warns against a spiritually blind approach to life that claims to be scientific while destroying the earth.

Key points from the purport
  • Whatever is pleasing to the brāhmaṇas, the cows and the Supreme Lord Himself is auspicious and beneficial for the entire world.
  • Spiritually blind “modern” people do not understand this and instead adopt a “scientific” approach to life that is rapidly destroying the entire earth.

The purport'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

Attraction and threat → Joy and trust. The pastoral world becomes the setting for protection and love.

Chapters 20–28 of Canto 10: Forest seasons, flute and Govardhana. An editorial reading of the story's mood, not the text itself. See the emotional arc

Further reading

Chapter 24: Worshiping Govardhana Hill

From the chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:

Therefore you should offer worship to the cows, the brāhmaṇas and Govardhana Hill.” After Kṛṣṇa spoke thus, He arranged for the cowherd men to worship Govardhana with the paraphernalia collected for the sacrifice to Indra.
Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in chapter 10.24
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Word for word

Learn the Sanskrit words of the verse.

  1. etatthis
  2. mamaMy
  3. matamidea
  4. tātaO father
  5. kriyatāmmay it be carried out
  6. yadiif
  7. rocateit is pleasing
  8. ayamthis
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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

  • Vātsalya · Parental affection

    Affection and protective concern for the Lord as a child. · Theme in SB 10.24

    In this verse: “father”

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

Do I measure benefit only by material results, or also by what pleases the Supreme Lord?

Practice

Before one act of service today, pause and make pleasing Kṛṣṇa your goal.

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The story around it

The story this chapter belongs to.

Live this todayPleasing Kṛṣṇa Benefits the WorldThis 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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