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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 2 · Chapter 6: Puruṣa-sūkta Confirmed
2.6.112.6.13-16

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam · Text 2.6.12

Āśraya· The supreme shelter
Who is speaking and story frame
Speaking:Lord Brahmāsince 2.6.1inside 3 frames: Sūta Gosvāmī → the sages at NaimiṣāraṇyaŚukadeva Gosvāmī → King ParīkṣitLord Brahmā → Nārada Muni

धर्मस्य मम तुभ्यं च कुमाराणां भवस्य च ।

विज्ञानस्य च सत्त्वस्य परस्यात्मा परायणम् ॥ १२ ॥

dharmasya mama tubhyaṁ ca

kumārāṇāṁ bhavasya ca

vijñānasya ca sattvasya

parasyātmā parāyaṇam

Translation

Also, the consciousness of that great personality is the abode of religious principles — mine, yours, and those of the four bachelors Sanaka, Sanātana, Sanat-kumāra and Sanandana. That consciousness is also the abode of truth and transcendental knowledge.

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This verse has no purport; its meaning is explained by the verses around it.

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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

The Lord Is the Abode of Truth

  1. 1

    The consciousness of the great personality is the abode of religious principles.

  2. 2

    This includes the religious principles of the speaker, the hearer, and Sanaka, Sanātana, Sanat-kumāra and Sanandana.

  3. 3

    That same consciousness is also the abode of truth and transcendental knowledge.

How it feels

Uncertainty → Awe. The scale of reality widens dramatically.

Chapters 4–7 of Canto 2: The creation, cosmic Person and incarnations. An editorial reading of the story's mood, not the text itself. See the emotional arc

Further reading

Chapter 6: Puruṣa-sūkta Confirmed

Brahmā describes the universal form, his sacrifice, and the Lord’s control over creation, maintenance, and destruction.

Back to this verse in chapter 2.6
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Word for word

Learn the Sanskrit words of the verse.

  1. dharmasyaof religious principles, or of Yamarāja
  2. mamamine
  3. tubhyamof yours
  4. caand
  5. kumārāṇāmof the four Kumāras
  6. bhavasyaLord Śiva
  7. caand also
  8. vijñānasyaof transcendental knowledge
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Key ideas in this verse

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

  • Āśraya · The summum bonum

    Who is the shelter of everything? · Subject 10 of 10

  • Dharma · Duty and righteous conduct

    Right action as duty, responsibility and devotion. · Theme in SB 2.6

    In this verse: “religious”, “principles”

  • Jñāna · Spiritual insight

    Inquiry, revelation and discrimination between self and matter. · Theme in SB 2.6

    In this verse: “knowledge”

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

How can remembering the Lord as the abode of truth deepen my respect for truth?

Practice

Before one conversation today, pause to remember the Lord as the abode of truth and choose truthful words.

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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 2.6's connections

Live this todayThe Lord Is the Abode of TruthThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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