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Canto 10 · Chapter 74: The Deliverance of Śiśupāla at the Rājasūya Sacrifice

10.74.44 10.74.46

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam · Text 10.74.45

Mukti· Liberation

Who is speaking and story frame

Speaking:Śukadeva Gosvāmīsince 10.74.38inside 2 frames: Sūta Gosvāmī → the sages at NaimiṣāraṇyaŚukadeva Gosvāmī → King Parīkṣit

चैद्यदेहोत्थितं ज्योतिर्वासुदेवमुपाविशत् ।

पश्यतां सर्वभूतानामुल्केव भुवि खाच्च्युता ॥ ४५ ॥

caidya-dehotthitaṁ jyotir

vāsudevam upāviśat

paśyatāṁ sarva-bhūtānām

ulkeva bhuvi khāc cyutā

Translation

An effulgent light rose from Śiśupāla’s body and, as everyone watched, entered Lord Kṛṣṇa just like a meteor falling from the sky to the earth.

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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.

Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Śiśupāla Returns to His Master

1
Everyone watched an effulgent light rise from Śiśupāla’s body and enter Lord Kṛṣṇa, like a meteor falling to earth.
2
The ācāryas explain that Śiśupāla was an eternal associate of the Lord playing the part of a belligerent demon.
3
Most observers saw what appeared to be impersonal liberation into Kṛṣṇa’s bodily effulgence. In fact, Śiśupāla returned to the side of his master, the Supreme Lord of the spiritual world.

Key points from the purport

In this connection, the ācāryas remind us that Śiśupāla is actually one of the Lord’s eternal associates playing the part of a belligerent demon.
Thus to most observers it appeared that Śiśupāla achieved the impersonal liberation of merging into Lord Kṛṣṇa’s bodily effulgence.
In fact, after being liberated from his mortal frame, Śiśupāla returned to the side of his master, the Supreme Lord of the spiritual world.

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

War and pride → Justice and protection. The public expression of divine power comes to the foreground.

Chapters 70–79 of Canto 10: Kingship, Jarāsandha and royal challenges. An editorial reading of the story's mood, not the text itself. See the emotional arc

Chapter 74: The Deliverance of Śiśupāla at the Rājasūya Sacrifice

From the chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:

At that moment an effulgent spark of light rose out of Śiśupāla’s dead body and entered the transcendental body of Lord Kṛṣṇa. Having lived through three births as the enemy of the Lord, Śiśupāla now attained the liberation of sāyujya, merging into Him, by dint of his constant meditation on Him.

Read the whole chapter summary Back to this verse in chapter 10.74