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Read one verse of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam with its Sanskrit, word meanings, translation and study points.
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam · Text 4.28.50
चितिं दारुमयीं चित्वा तस्यां पत्यु: कलेवरम् ।
आदीप्य चानुमरणे विलपन्ती मनो दधे ॥ ५० ॥
citiṁ dārumayīṁ citvā
tasyāṁ patyuḥ kalevaram
ādīpya cānumaraṇe
vilapantī mano dadhe
She then prepared a blazing fire with firewood and placed the dead body of her husband upon it. When this was finished, she lamented severely and prepared herself to perish in the fire with her husband.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The translation describes the wife preparing her husband’s funeral fire and grieving severely. The purport discusses this historical practice as saha-maraṇa.
The spiritual master comes to reestablish religious principles as the representative of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Disciples have the duty to take charge of the spiritual master’s mission and execute it properly. The practical emphasis is wholehearted service rather than personal considerations.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
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’s city falls; he becomes a woman, and a brāhmaṇa recalls the soul’s forgotten spiritual friendship.
Back to this verse in chapter 4.28Learn 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
Dharma · Duty and righteous conduct
Right action as duty, responsibility and devotion. · Theme in SB 4.28
In this verse: “religious”, “duty”, “principles”
Viraha · Longing in separation
Love and remembrance experienced in apparent absence. · Theme in SB 4.28
In this verse: “lamented”
Chapter themes come from the story phase this chapter belongs to.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What personal convenience could I set aside to carry out a devotional responsibility?
Choose one small task that supports the spiritual master’s mission and complete it today.
The story this chapter belongs to.
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 4.28's connections
Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.
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