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How to study this verse, in six steps

1Chant the verse. Say the Sanskrit slowly and carefully.
2Read the word meanings. Go through each Sanskrit word and its meaning.
3Find the meaning yourself. Before the translation, piece the meaning together from the words.
4Read the translation. Ask: what is the Lord teaching here, and how does it apply to my life?
5Read the purport slowly. Read it two or three times. Don't rush.
6Write down what touched you. Note the main points in your own notebook.

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Canto 6 · Chapter 18: Diti Vows to Kill King Indra

6.18.60 6.18.62

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam · Text 6.18.61

Ūti· What drives us to act

Who is speaking and story frame

Speaking:Kaśyapa Munisince 6.18.54inside 2 frames: Sūta Gosvāmī → the sages at NaimiṣāraṇyaŚukadeva Gosvāmī → King Parīkṣit

लब्ध्वा तदन्तरं शक्रो निद्रापहृतचेतस: ।

दिते: प्रविष्ट उदरं योगेशो योगमायया ॥ ६१ ॥

labdhvā tad-antaraṁ śakro

nidrāpahṛta-cetasaḥ

diteḥ praviṣṭa udaraṁ

yogeśo yoga-māyayā

Translation

Finding this fault, Indra, who has all the mystic powers [the yoga-siddhis such as aṇimā and laghimā], entered Diti’s womb while she was unconscious, being fast asleep.

Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.io

Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Indra Enters Through Mystic Power

1
A perfectly successful yogī is expert in eight kinds of perfection.
2
Through aṇimā-siddhi, a yogī can become smaller than an atom and enter anywhere.
3
Finding Diti’s fault, Indra used this power to enter her womb while she was fast asleep.

Key points from the purport

A perfectly successful yogī is expert in eight kinds of perfection.
By one of them, called aṇimā-siddhi, he can become smaller than an atom, and in that state he can enter anywhere.
With this yogic power, Indra entered the womb of Diti while she was pregnant.

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

Resentment and resolve → Constraint and consequence. Family conflict frames a test of intention.

Chapters 18–19 of Canto 6: Diti's vow and discipline. An editorial reading of the story's mood, not the text itself. See the emotional arc

Chapter 18: Diti Vows to Kill King Indra

From the chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:

Thus he entered her womb and cut her son into forty-nine parts. In this way the forty-nine kinds of air known as the Maruts appeared, but because Diti had performed the Vaiṣṇava ritualistic ceremonies, all the sons became Vaiṣṇavas.

Read the whole chapter summary Back to this verse in chapter 6.18