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How to study this verse, in six steps

1Chant the verse. Say the Sanskrit slowly and carefully.
2Read the word meanings. Go through each Sanskrit word and its meaning.
3Find the meaning yourself. Before the translation, piece the meaning together from the words.
4Read the translation. Ask: what is the Lord teaching here, and how does it apply to my life?
5Read the purport slowly. Read it two or three times. Don't rush.
6Write down what touched you. Note the main points in your own notebook.

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Canto 2 · Chapter 6: Puruṣa-sūkta Confirmed

2.6.8 2.6.10

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam · Text 2.6.9

Sthāna· The universe in order

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

पायुर्यमस्य मित्रस्य परिमोक्षस्य नारद ।

हिंसाया निऋर्तेर्मृत्योर्निरयस्य गुदं स्मृत: ॥ ९ ॥

pāyur yamasya mitrasya

parimokṣasya nārada

hiṁsāyā nirṛter mṛtyor

nirayasya gudaṁ smṛtaḥ

Translation

O Nārada, the evacuating outlet of the universal form of the Lord is the abode of the controlling deity of death, Mitra, and the evacuating hole and the rectum of the Lord is the place of envy, misfortune, death, hell, etc.

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

Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Death Also Has Its Universal Place

1
Brahmā addresses Nārada while describing the evacuating organs of the Lord’s universal form.
2
The evacuating outlet is the abode of Mitra, the controlling deity of death.
3
The evacuating hole and rectum are described as the place of envy, misfortune, death and hell.

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

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

Word for word

Learn the Sanskrit words of the verse.

pāyuḥthe evacuating outlet
yamasyathe controlling deity of death
mitrasyaof Mitra
parimokṣasyaof the evacuating hole
nāradaO Nārada
hiṁsāyāḥof envy
nirṛteḥof misfortune
mṛtyoḥof death

Key ideas in this verse

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

Sthāna · Planetary systems
How is the universe arranged, and what is our right place in it? · Subject 3 of 10
Abhaya · Fearlessness
Steadiness through faith amid danger and death. · Theme in SB 2.6
In this verse: “death”

Chapter themes come from the story phase this chapter belongs to.

Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

How does this description broaden your understanding of what the universal form includes?

Practice

Reread the translation once, noting that even envy, misfortune and death have places in this description of the universal form.

The story around it

The story this chapter belongs to.

Live this todayDeath Also Has Its Universal PlaceThis 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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