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Read one verse of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam with its Sanskrit, word meanings, translation and study points.
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam · Text 3.29.4
कालस्येश्वररूपस्य परेषां च परस्य ते ।
स्वरूपं बत कुर्वन्ति यद्धेतो: कुशलं जना: ॥ ४ ॥
kālasyeśvara-rūpasya
pareṣāṁ ca parasya te
svarūpaṁ bata kurvanti
yad-dhetoḥ kuśalaṁ janāḥ
Please also describe eternal time, which is a representation of Your form and by whose influence people in general engage in the performance of pious activities.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Eternal time is a representation of the Lord's form. It devours the effects of material activities and acts on the body from birth.
Awareness of death leads some people to charitable and pious activities for a better future life. Yet a desire for heavenly enjoyment still keeps their hopes within the material world.
Even reaching Brahmaloka does not free one from birth and death, because time acts everywhere in the material world. In the spiritual world, however, time has no influence.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Entanglement → Insight and liberation. Inquiry matures into instruction in devotion and spiritual nature.
Chapters 25–33 of Canto 3: Kapila instructs Devahūti. An editorial reading of the story's mood, not the text itself. See the emotional arc
Kapila explains devotional service, honoring the Lord’s presence in all beings, and the power of time.
Back to this verse in chapter 3.29Learn the Sanskrit words of the 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
Moha · Material attachment
The pull of ego, desire and impermanent relationships. · Theme in SB 3.29
In this verse: “material”
Abhaya · Fearlessness
Steadiness through faith amid danger and death. · Theme in SB 3.29
In this verse: “death”
Chapter themes come from the story phase this chapter belongs to.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does awareness of passing time change what I consider worth pursuing?
Pause for one minute today to reflect that even the highest material destination cannot free you from birth and death.
The story this chapter belongs to.
Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.
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