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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 6 · Chapter 18: Diti Vows to Kill King Indra
6.18.726.18.74

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam · Text 6.18.73

Poṣaṇa· The Lord's protection
Who is speaking and story frame
Speaking:Indrasince 6.18.71inside 2 frames: Sūta Gosvāmī → the sages at NaimiṣāraṇyaŚukadeva Gosvāmī → King Parīkṣit

ततस्तत्परमाश्चर्यं वीक्ष्य व्यवसितं मया ।

महापुरुषपूजाया: सिद्धि: काप्यानुषङ्गिणी ॥ ७३ ॥

tatas tat paramāścaryaṁ

vīkṣya vyavasitaṁ mayā

mahāpuruṣa-pūjāyāḥ

siddhiḥ kāpy ānuṣaṅgiṇī

Translation

My dear mother, when I saw that all forty-nine sons were alive, I was certainly struck with wonder. I decided that this was a secondary result of your having regularly executed devotional service in worship of Lord Viṣṇu.

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

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Wonderful Results Are Secondary to Devotion

  1. 1

    Indra was struck with wonder when he saw all forty-nine sons alive. He understood their survival as a secondary result of Diti’s regular devotional worship of Lord Viṣṇu.

  2. 2

    Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Personality of Godhead and the master of all mystic yoga. He can do anything and everything He likes.

  3. 3

    For one who pleases the Supreme Lord, no achievement is wonderful. Such possibilities rest on the Lord’s omnipotence.

Key points from the purport
  • For one who engages in worshiping Lord Viṣṇu, nothing is very wonderful.
  • Yogeśvara is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the master of all mystic yoga, who can do anything and everything He likes.
  • For one who pleases the Supreme Lord, no achievement is wonderful.

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

Connected verses· 1

The purport of SB 6.18.73 quotesBG 18.78

In Bhagavad-gītā (18.78) it is said: “Wherever there is Kṛṣṇa, the master of all mystics, and wherever there is Arjuna, the supreme archer, there will also certainly be opulence, victory, extraordinary power, and morality.

Each link is a verse the purport itself quotes, or a purport elsewhere that quotes this verse, shown with the purport's own words.

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

Further reading

Chapter 18: Diti Vows to Kill King Indra

From the chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:

Just to help Indra, Lord Viṣṇu had killed Hiraṇyākṣa and Hiraṇyakaśipu. Because of this, Diti was very envious, and she was eager to have a son who could kill Indra.
Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in chapter 6.18
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Word for word

Learn the Sanskrit words of the verse.

  1. tataḥthen
  2. tatthat
  3. parama-āścaryamgreat wonder
  4. vīkṣyaseeing
  5. vyavasitamit was decided
  6. mayāby me
  7. mahā-puruṣaof Lord Viṣṇu
  8. pūjāyāḥof worship
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Key ideas in this verse

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

  • Poṣaṇa · Protection by the Lord

    How does the Lord care for His devotees? · Subject 4 of 10

  • Bhakti · Devotion and loving service

    How devotion reorganizes desire and action. · Theme in SB 6.18

    In this verse: “devotional service”, “worship”, “devotional”

  • Vātsalya · Parental affection

    Affection and protective concern for the Lord as a child. · Theme in SB 6.18

    In this verse: “mother”

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

Do I value pleasing the Lord more than receiving wonderful results?

Practice

During your worship today, focus on pleasing the Lord rather than asking for an extraordinary result.

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The story around it

The story this chapter belongs to.

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Connected stories

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 6.18's connections

Live this todayWonderful Results Are Secondary to DevotionThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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