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  1. 1Chant the verse. Say the Sanskrit slowly and carefully.
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  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 11 · Chapter 6: The Yadu Dynasty Retires to Prabhāsa
11.6.3411.6.36

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam · Text 11.6.35

Īśānukathā· The Lord and His devotees
Who is speaking and story frame
Speaking:The Supreme Personality of Godheadsince 11.6.34inside 2 frames: Sūta Gosvāmī → the sages at NaimiṣāraṇyaŚukadeva Gosvāmī → King Parīkṣit

न वस्तव्यमिहास्माभिर्जिजीविषुभिरार्यका: ।

प्रभासं सुमहत्पुण्यं यास्यामोऽद्यैव मा चिरम् ॥ ३५ ॥

na vastavyam ihāsmābhir

jijīviṣubhir āryakāḥ

prabhāsaṁ su-mahat-puṇyaṁ

yāsyāmo ’dyaiva mā ciram

Translation

My dear respected elders, we must not remain any longer in this place if we wish to keep our lives intact. Let us go this very day to the most pious place Prabhāsa. We have no time to delay.

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.

Kṛṣṇa’s Pastimes Remain Transcendental and Auspicious

  1. 1

    Kṛṣṇa urges the elders to leave for Prabhāsa without delay. Through His yoga-māyā, He leads the demigod members of His dynasty away so they can return to their previous service.

  2. 2

    Dvārakā is so auspicious that even an appearance of inauspiciousness cannot occur there. The removal of the Yadu dynasty is ultimately auspicious, though outwardly it appears otherwise.

  3. 3

    Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, not an ordinary human being. His eternal, transcendental body of bliss never experiences death.

Key points from the purport
  • Many demigods, coming to the earth to assist Lord Kṛṣṇa in His pastimes, took birth within the Yadu dynasty and appeared as Lord Kṛṣṇa’s associates.
  • Actually, Lord Kṛṣṇa’s pastime of removing the Yadu dynasty is ultimately auspicious, but since it outwardly appeared inauspicious, it could not take place in Dvārakā; therefore Lord Kṛṣṇa led the Yadus away from Dvārakā.
  • Thus the Personality of Godhead arranged that at the end of Dvāpara-yuga, when the Lord was winding up His manifest pastimes, His devotee Bhṛgu, in the form of the hunter Jarā, would cast the arrow into a material body created by the Lord’s illusory energy.

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

Foreboding → Devotional urgency. Uddhava realizes that Kṛṣṇa's visible association is nearing an end.

Chapters 1–6 of Canto 11: The Yadu curse, the nine Yogendras and farewell signs. An editorial reading of the story's mood, not the text itself. See the emotional arc

Further reading

Chapter 6: The Yadu Dynasty Retires to Prabhāsa

From the chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:

Upon seeing and hearing the Lord’s conversation with the Yadu dynasty, Uddhava approached Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa in a secluded place, offered Him full obeisances and, with folded hands, expressed his inability to tolerate separation from the Lord. He begged Kṛṣṇa to carry him to His own abode.
Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in chapter 11.6
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Word for word

Learn the Sanskrit words of the verse.

  1. na vastavyamshould not reside
  2. ihahere
  3. asmābhiḥwe
  4. jijīviṣubhiḥdesiring to live
  5. āryakāḥO venerable ones
  6. prabhāsamto the holy place called Prabhāsa
  7. su-mahatvery much
  8. puṇyampious
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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

  • Abhaya · Fearlessness

    Steadiness through faith amid danger and death. · Theme in SB 11.6

    In this verse: “death”

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

How does remembering Kṛṣṇa’s eternal nature change my understanding of His humanlike pastimes?

Practice

Pause today to reflect on this teaching: Kṛṣṇa’s actual transcendental body never experiences death.

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The story around it

The story this chapter belongs to.

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Connected stories

Keep going: stories told elsewhere in the Bhāgavatam that this verse or its purport brings in.

Found where this verse or Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport names them. See all of chapter 11.6's connections

Live this todayKṛṣṇa’s Pastimes Remain Transcendental and AuspiciousThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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