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Read one verse of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam with its Sanskrit, word meanings, translation and study points.
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam · Text 4.27.14
गन्धर्व्यस्तादृशीरस्य मैथुन्यश्च सितासिता: ।
परिवृत्त्या विलुम्पन्ति सर्वकामविनिर्मिताम् ॥ १४ ॥
gandharvyas tādṛśīr asya
maithunyaś ca sitāsitāḥ
parivṛttyā vilumpanti
sarva-kāma-vinirmitām
Along with Caṇḍavega were as many female Gandharvīs as there were soldiers, and all of them repetitively plundered all the paraphernalia for sense enjoyment.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The days and nights together carry away our life span and everything we manufacture for sense gratification. This plundering begins at birth.
Machines may make sense enjoyment more elaborate, but they too deteriorate under the force of time. Material facilities cannot stop life's duration from being spent.
At death, the living entity enters another body and begins the cycle of material enjoyment again. The purport calls this repetition 'chewing the chewed': different methods produce the same sense pleasure.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
The purport of SB 4.27.14 quotesSB 7.5.30
Prahlāda Mahārāja describes this process as punaḥ punaś carvita-carvaṇānām: materialistic life means chewing the chewed again and again.
Each link is a verse the purport itself quotes, or a purport elsewhere that quotes this verse, shown with the purport's own words.
Worldly absorption → Sobering awareness. The mind's identification with material life becomes visible.
Chapters 24–29 of Canto 4: Śiva's song and the allegory of Purañjana. An editorial reading of the story's mood, not the text itself. See the emotional arc
Purañjana grows deeply attached to family while Caṇḍavega’s soldiers attack his city.
Back to this verse in chapter 4.27Learn the Sanskrit words of the 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
Moha · Material attachment
The pull of ego, desire and impermanent relationships. · Theme in SB 4.27
In this verse: “sense gratification”, “material”
Abhaya · Fearlessness
Steadiness through faith amid danger and death. · Theme in SB 4.27
In this verse: “death”
Chapter themes come from the story phase this chapter belongs to.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Am I seeking lasting satisfaction by merely changing my methods of sense enjoyment?
Notice one desire for a new material convenience, and pause before pursuing it to consider whether it offers anything beyond repeated sense enjoyment.
The story this chapter belongs to.
Keep going: stories told elsewhere in the Bhāgavatam that this verse or its purport brings in.
The purport quotesSB 7.5.30
Found where this verse or Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport names them. See all of chapter 4.27's connections
Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.
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