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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 9: Answers by Citing the Lord’s Version
2.9.312.9.33

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam · Text 2.9.32

Poṣaṇa· The Lord's protection
Who is speaking and story frame
Speaking:The Personality of Godheadsince 2.9.31inside 3 frames: Sūta Gosvāmī → the sages at NaimiṣāraṇyaŚukadeva Gosvāmī → King ParīkṣitThe Supreme Lord → Lord Brahmā

यावानहं यथाभावो यद्रूपगुणकर्मक: ।

तथैव तत्त्वविज्ञानमस्तु ते मदनुग्रहात् ॥ ३२ ॥

yāvān ahaṁ yathā-bhāvo

yad-rūpa-guṇa-karmakaḥ

tathaiva tattva-vijñānam

astu te mad-anugrahāt

Translation

All of Me, namely My actual eternal form and My transcendental existence, color, qualities and activities — let all be awakened within you by factual realization, out of My causeless mercy.

Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.io
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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

The Lord Reveals Himself Through Mercy

  1. 1

    Factual realization of the Lord comes by His causeless mercy, not merely through education or intellectual effort. Advancement in loving service makes one eligible to know Him.

  2. 2

    Unflinching faith in the bona fide spiritual master and the Lord opens the way to understanding Him. The Lord reveals His form, qualities and pastimes to the faithful.

  3. 3

    The Lord has an eternal spiritual form, not a material body. His transcendental qualities and activities are real, and His affection for His pure devotees is one of His unlimited qualities.

Key points from the purport
  • The Lord discloses the transcendental nature of His existence.
  • The mundane wranglers make mundane conceptions of the form of the Lord.
  • In the Brahma-saṁhitā it is said that the Lord has a transcendental form and that He can utilize any one of His senses for any purpose.

Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.

Connected verses· 1

Quoted in the purport ofCC Madhya 25.109

This is a quotation from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (2.9.32).

Each link is a verse the purport itself quotes, or a purport elsewhere that quotes this verse, shown with the purport's own words.

How it feels

Inquiry → Conviction. Divine knowledge resolves fundamental cosmic uncertainty.

Chapters 8–10 of Canto 2: Parīkṣit questions; Brahmā receives revelation. An editorial reading of the story's mood, not the text itself. See the emotional arc

Further reading

Chapter 9: Answers by Citing the Lord’s Version

The Lord receives Brahmā, explains His eternal existence, and instructs him to remain fixed and free from pride.

Back to this verse in chapter 2.9
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Word for word

Learn the Sanskrit words of the verse.

  1. yāvānas I am in eternal form
  2. ahamMyself
  3. yathāas much as
  4. bhāvaḥtranscendental existence
  5. yatthose
  6. rūpavarious forms and colors
  7. guṇaqualities
  8. karmakaḥactivities
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Key ideas in this verse

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

  • Poṣaṇa · Protection by the Lord

    How does the Lord care for His devotees? · Subject 4 of 10

  • Kṛpā · Divine mercy

    Grace received beyond material calculations. · Theme in SB 2.9

    In this verse: “mercy”, “causeless”

  • Bhakti · Devotion and loving service

    How devotion reorganizes desire and action. · Theme in SB 2.9

    In this verse: “devotees”

  • Jñāna · Spiritual insight

    Inquiry, revelation and discrimination between self and matter. · Theme in SB 2.9

    In this verse: “understanding”

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

Am I approaching the Lord with faith and a desire to serve, or relying only on my own understanding?

Practice

Reread the translation slowly today, then pray for the Lord’s mercy to understand Him through loving service.

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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 2.9's connections

Live this todayThe Lord Reveals Himself Through MercyThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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