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Canto 6 · Prescribed Duties for Mankind · 19 chapters

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1Chant the verse. Say the Sanskrit slowly and carefully.
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4Read the translation. Ask: what is the Lord teaching here, and how does it apply to my life?
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6Write down what touched you. Note the main points in your own notebook.

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Canto 6 · Chapter 5: Nārada Muni Cursed by Prajāpati Dakṣa

6.5.2 6.5.4-5

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam · Text 6.5.3

Sthāna· The universe in order

Who is speaking and story frame

Speaking:Śukadeva Gosvāmīsince 6.5.1inside 2 frames: Sūta Gosvāmī → the sages at NaimiṣāraṇyaŚukadeva Gosvāmī → King Parīkṣit

तत्र नारायणसरस्तीर्थं सिन्धुसमुद्रयो: ।

सङ्गमो यत्र सुमहन्मुनिसिद्धनिषेवितम् ॥ ३ ॥

tatra nārāyaṇa-saras

tīrthaṁ sindhu-samudrayoḥ

saṅgamo yatra sumahan

muni-siddha-niṣevitam

Translation

In the west, where the river Sindhu meets the sea, there is a great place of pilgrimage known as Nārāyaṇa-saras. Many sages and others advanced in spiritual consciousness live there.

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This verse has no purport; its meaning is explained by the verses around it.

Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

A Holy Place of Spiritual Association

1
Nārāyaṇa-saras is a great place of pilgrimage in the west.
2
It is situated where the river Sindhu meets the sea.
3
Many sages and others advanced in spiritual consciousness live there. The description connects this holy place with spiritually advanced people.

How it feels

Anger and conflict → Spiritual commitment. Competing understandings of duty create relational tension.

Chapters 4–6 of Canto 6: Dakṣa, Nārada and the consequences of preaching. An editorial reading of the story's mood, not the text itself. See the emotional arc

Chapter 5: Nārada Muni Cursed by Prajāpati Dakṣa

From the chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:

Ordered by their father to create more and more population, the Haryaśvas went west to the place where the river Sindhu (now the Indus) meets the Arabian Sea. In those days this was the site of a holy lake named Nārāyaṇa-saras, where there were many saintly persons.

Read the whole chapter summary Back to this verse in chapter 6.5