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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 4 · Chapter 19: King Pṛthu’s One Hundred Horse Sacrifices
4.19.334.19.35

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam · Text 4.19.34

Mukti· Liberation
Who is speaking and story frame
Speaking:Lord Brahmāsince 4.19.33inside 3 frames: Sūta Gosvāmī → the sages at NaimiṣāraṇyaŚukadeva Gosvāmī → King ParīkṣitMaitreya Ṛṣi → Vidura

मास्मिन्महाराज कृथा: स्म चिन्तांनिशामयास्मद्वच आद‍ृतात्मा । यद्ध्यायतो दैवहतं नु कर्तुंमनोऽतिरुष्टं विशते तमोऽन्धम् ॥ ३४ ॥

māsmin mahārāja kṛthāḥ sma cintāṁ

niśāmayāsmad-vaca ādṛtātmā

yad dhyāyato daiva-hataṁ nu kartuṁ

mano ’tiruṣṭaṁ viśate tamo ’ndham

Translation

My dear King, do not be agitated and anxious because your sacrifices have not been properly executed due to providential impediments. Kindly take my words with great respect. We should always remember that if something happens by providential arrangement, we should not be very sorry. The more we try to rectify such reversals, the more we enter into the darkest region of materialistic thought.

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

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Tolerate Reversals Without Becoming Agitated

  1. 1

    Even saintly and religious people meet reversals in life. Such incidents should be taken as providential.

  2. 2

    Becoming absorbed in trying to rectify these reversals can draw the mind deeper into material anxiety.

  3. 3

    Lord Brahmā asked Pṛthu to hear his advice respectfully. Lord Kṛṣṇa also advises tolerating difficulties instead of becoming agitated.

Key points from the purport
  • Sometimes the saintly or very religious person also has to meet with reversals in life.
  • Although there may be sufficient cause for being unhappy, one should avoid counteracting such reversals, for the more we become implicated in rectifying such reversals, the more we enter into the darkest regions of material anxiety.
  • Lord Kṛṣṇa has also advised us in this connection: we should tolerate things instead of becoming agitated.

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

How it feels

Anger and disorder → Duty and devotion. Kingship shifts from domination to stewardship and renunciation.

Chapters 13–23 of Canto 4: Vena and Pṛthu: power, the Earth and stewardship. An editorial reading of the story's mood, not the text itself. See the emotional arc

Further reading

Chapter 19: King Pṛthu’s One Hundred Horse Sacrifices

Indra repeatedly takes the sacrificial horse, and Brahmā restrains Pṛthu’s anger.

Back to this verse in chapter 4.19
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Word for word

Learn the Sanskrit words of the verse.

  1. mādo not
  2. asminin this
  3. mahā-rājaO King
  4. kṛthāḥdo
  5. smaas done in the past
  6. cintāmagitation of the mind
  7. niśāmayaplease consider
  8. asmatmy
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Key ideas in this verse

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

  • Mukti · Liberation

    What is real freedom for the soul? · Subject 9 of 10

  • Moha · Material attachment

    The pull of ego, desire and impermanent relationships. · Theme in SB 4.19

    In this verse: “materialistic”, “material”

  • Karuṇā · Compassion

    Concern for others expressed through bhakti. · Theme in SB 4.19

    In this verse: “kindly”

  • Rāja-dharma · Devotional leadership

    Serving and protecting through responsibility. · Theme in SB 4.19

    In this verse: “king”

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

Which setback am I repeatedly dwelling on, and is that dwelling increasing my anxiety?

Practice

When one small frustration arises today, pause before reacting and practice tolerating it without angry brooding.

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The story around it

The story this chapter belongs to.

Live this todayTolerate Reversals Without Becoming AgitatedThis 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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