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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 62: The Meeting of Ūṣā and Aniruddha
10.62.25-2610.62.28

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam · Text 10.62.27

Īśānukathā· The Lord and His devotees
Who is speaking and story frame
Speaking:Citralekhāsince 10.62.16inside 2 frames: Sūta Gosvāmī → the sages at NaimiṣāraṇyaŚukadeva Gosvāmī → King Parīkṣit

अनपायिभिरस्माभिर्गुप्तायाश्च गृहे प्रभो ।

कन्याया दूषणं पुम्भिर्दुष्प्रेक्ष्याया न विद्महे ॥ २७ ॥

anapāyibhir asmābhir

guptāyāś ca gṛhe prabho

kanyāyā dūṣaṇaṁ pumbhir

duṣprekṣyāyā na vidmahe

Translation

“We have been carefully watching over her, never leaving our posts, O master, so we cannot understand how this maiden, whom no man can even see, has been corrupted within the palace.”

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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.

Careful Guards Admit Their Puzzlement

  1. 1

    The guards said they had carefully watched over Ūṣā without leaving their posts. They could not understand how this had happened within the palace.

  2. 2

    The ācāryas explain that anapāyibhiḥ can mean either “never going away” or “never deluded.” Both readings emphasize the guards’ claim of vigilance.

  3. 3

    The alternate reading duṣpreṣyāyāḥ refers to Ūṣā as “she whose wicked girlfriend has been sent on a mission.” The purport distinguishes this from the reading about her being unseen by men.

Key points from the purport
  • The ācāryas explain that the word anapāyibhiḥ can mean either “never going away” or “never deluded.”
  • Also, if we take the alternate reading duṣpreṣyāyāḥ instead of duṣprekṣyāyāḥ, the guards refer to Ūṣā as “she whose wicked girlfriend has been sent on a mission.”

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

Conflict and affection → Devotional wonder. Divine intimacy coexists with royal duties.

Chapters 60–69 of Canto 10: Palace life, family bonds and heroic protection. An editorial reading of the story's mood, not the text itself. See the emotional arc

Further reading

Chapter 62: The Meeting of Ūṣā and Aniruddha

From the chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:

After some time the female guards of the inner palace noticed symptoms of sexual activity on Ūṣā’s person, and they went to Bāṇāsura to inform him. Greatly disturbed, Bāṇāsura rushed to his daughter’s apartments with many armed guards and, to his great surprise, saw Aniruddha there.
Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in chapter 10.62
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Word for word

Learn the Sanskrit words of the verse.

  1. anapāyibhiḥwho have never gone away
  2. asmābhiḥby us
  3. guptāyāḥof her who has been well guarded
  4. caand
  5. gṛhewithin the palace
  6. prabhoO master
  7. kanyāyāḥof the maiden
  8. dūṣaṇamthe polluting
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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

  • Jñāna · Spiritual insight

    Inquiry, revelation and discrimination between self and matter. · Theme in SB 10.62

    In this verse: “understand”

  • Rakṣā · Divine protection

    Protection of devotees through the Lord’s intervention. · Theme in SB 10.62

    In this verse: “guards”

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

Can I admit that I do not understand something, even when I believe I have been attentive?

Practice

Reread the guards’ words and identify separately what they claim to know and what they cannot explain.

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The story around it

The story this chapter belongs to.

Live this todayCareful Guards Admit Their PuzzlementThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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