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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 3 · Chapter 2: Remembrance of Lord Kṛṣṇa
3.2.63.2.8

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam · Text 3.2.7

Nirodha· Winding up
Who is speaking and story frame
Speaking:Uddhavasince 3.2.7inside 3 frames: Sūta Gosvāmī → the sages at NaimiṣāraṇyaŚukadeva Gosvāmī → King ParīkṣitUddhava → Vidura

उद्धव उवाच

कृष्णद्युमणिनिम्‍लोचे गीर्णेष्वजगरेण ह ।

किं

नु न: कुशलं ब्रूयां गतश्रीषु गृहेष्वहम् ॥ ७ ॥

uddhava uvāca

kṛṣṇa-dyumaṇi nimloce

gīrṇeṣv ajagareṇa ha

kiṁ nu naḥ kuśalaṁ brūyāṁ

gata-śrīṣu gṛheṣv aham

Translation

Śrī Uddhava said: My dear Vidura, the sun of the world, Lord Kṛṣṇa, has set, and our house has now been swallowed by the great snake of time. What can I say to you about our welfare?

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

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Kṛṣṇa’s Pastimes Never End

  1. 1

    Uddhava shared Vidura’s grief and compared Kṛṣṇa’s disappearance to sunset. With the Kṛṣṇa sun no longer visible, the world seemed covered in darkness.

  2. 2

    Darkness does not affect the sun itself. Similarly, Lord Kṛṣṇa’s appearance and disappearance do not end His existence or His pastimes.

  3. 3

    Kṛṣṇa’s nitya-līlā, His eternal pastimes, continues without ending. As a pastime finishes in one universe, it is manifested in another.

Key points from the purport
  • Uddhava could understand the grief of Vidura, and therefore he first of all wanted to sympathize with him by saying that after the sunset everyone is in darkness.
  • The Lord is always present in some universe, just as the sun is present in either the Eastern or the Western Hemisphere.
  • As the sun appears in the morning and gradually rises to the meridian and then again sets in one hemisphere while simultaneously rising in the other, so Lord Kṛṣṇa’s disappearance in one universe and the beginning of His different pastimes in another take place simultaneously.

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 ofSB 11.1.6-7

Viśvanātha Cakravartī has quoted a statement by Uddhava at the beginning of the Third Canto of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (3.2.7) wherein Uddhava compares the disappearance of Lord Kṛṣṇa to the setting of the sun.

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

Separation → Devotional remembrance. Uddhava's tears and silence make remembrance emotionally immediate.

Chapters 1–4 of Canto 3: Vidura meets Uddhava and hears of Kṛṣṇa. An editorial reading of the story's mood, not the text itself. See the emotional arc

Further reading

Chapter 2: Remembrance of Lord Kṛṣṇa

Uddhava remembers Kṛṣṇa in devotional ecstasy and recounts His disappearance, supremacy, and childhood activities.

Back to this verse in chapter 3.2
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Word for word

Learn the Sanskrit words of the verse.

  1. uddhavaḥ uvācaŚrī Uddhava said
  2. kṛṣṇa-dyumaṇithe Kṛṣṇa sun
  3. nimlocehaving set
  4. gīrṇeṣubeing swallowed
  5. ajagareṇaby the great snake
  6. hain the past
  7. kimwhat
  8. nuelse
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Key ideas in this verse

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

  • Nirodha · Returning home, back to Godhead

    What happens when everything here comes to an end? · Subject 8 of 10

  • Karuṇā · Compassion

    Concern for others expressed through bhakti. · Theme in SB 3.2

    In this verse: “welfare”

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

How does the sun comparison help me understand Kṛṣṇa’s disappearance?

Practice

Reread the sun comparison today and reflect for a moment on Kṛṣṇa’s everlasting pastimes.

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The story around it

The story this chapter belongs to.

Live this todayKṛṣṇa’s Pastimes Never EndThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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