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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 30: The Activities of the Pracetās
4.30.144.30.16

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam · Text 4.30.15

Visarga· Brahmā's creation
Who is speaking and story frame
Speaking:The Lordsince 4.30.9inside 3 frames: Sūta Gosvāmī → the sages at NaimiṣāraṇyaŚukadeva Gosvāmī → King ParīkṣitMaitreya Ṛṣi → Vidura

प्रजाविसर्ग आदिष्टा: पित्रा मामनुवर्तता ।

तत्र कन्यां वरारोहां तामुद्वहत मा चिरम् ॥ १५ ॥

prajā-visarga ādiṣṭāḥ

pitrā mām anuvartatā

tatra kanyāṁ varārohāṁ

tām udvahata mā ciram

Translation

Since all of you are very much obedient to My orders, I ask you to immediately marry that girl, who is so well qualified with beauty and good qualities. According to the order of your father, create progeny through her.

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

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Devotion Includes Faithful Obedience

  1. 1

    The Pracetās were great devotees of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

  2. 2

    They were also very obedient to their father’s orders. The Lord acknowledged their obedience to His own direction.

  3. 3

    The Lord asked them to marry Pramlocā’s daughter without delay. Through this marriage, they were to fulfill their father’s order to create progeny.

Key points from the purport
  • The Pracetās not only were great devotees of the Supreme Personality of Godhead but were very obedient to the orders of their father.
  • Therefore the Lord asked them to marry the daughter of Pramlocā.

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

Search → Devotional resolution. Prayer and instruction redirect household and societal life.

Chapters 30–31 of Canto 4: Pracetās and Nārada's concluding guidance. An editorial reading of the story's mood, not the text itself. See the emotional arc

Further reading

Chapter 30: The Activities of the Pracetās

The Lord appears to the Pracetās, who pray only for His satisfaction; Brahmā later pacifies them.

Back to this verse in chapter 4.30
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Word for word

Learn the Sanskrit words of the verse.

  1. prajā-visargeto create progeny
  2. ādiṣṭāḥbeing ordered
  3. pitrāby your father
  4. māmMy direction
  5. anuvartatāfollowing
  6. tatrathere
  7. kanyāmthe daughter
  8. vara-ārohāmhighly qualified and exquisitely beautiful
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Key ideas in this verse

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

  • Visarga · Subcreation

    How do living beings and their worlds appear? · Subject 2 of 10

  • Vātsalya · Parental affection

    Affection and protective concern for the Lord as a child. · Theme in SB 4.30

    In this verse: “father”, “father’s”

  • Bhakti · Devotion and loving service

    How devotion reorganizes desire and action. · Theme in SB 4.30

    In this verse: “devotees”

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

Am I willing to carry out the Lord’s direction faithfully, without unnecessary delay?

Practice

Take one small step today toward fulfilling a known instruction of the Lord that you have been postponing.

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The story around it

The story this chapter belongs to.

Live this todayDevotion Includes Faithful ObedienceThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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