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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 7 · Chapter 10: Prahlāda, the Best Among Exalted Devotees
7.10.347.10.36

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam · Text 7.10.35

Īśānukathā· The Lord and His devotees
Who is speaking and story frame
Speaking:Nārada Munisince 7.10.31inside 3 frames: Sūta Gosvāmī → the sages at NaimiṣāraṇyaŚukadeva Gosvāmī → King ParīkṣitNārada Muni → Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira

एवं च पार्षदौ विष्णो: पुत्रत्वं प्रापितौ दिते: ।

हृदि स्थितेन हरिणा वैरभावेन तौ हतौ ॥ ३५ ॥

evaṁ ca pārṣadau viṣṇoḥ

putratvaṁ prāpitau diteḥ

hṛdi sthitena hariṇā

vaira-bhāvena tau hatau

Translation

Thus the two associates of Lord Viṣṇu who had become Hiraṇyākṣa and Hiraṇyakaśipu, the sons of Diti, were both killed. By illusion they had thought that the Supreme Lord, who is situated in everyone’s heart, was their enemy.

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

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Illusion Makes the Lord Seem an Enemy

  1. 1

    The two associates of Lord Viṣṇu became Hiraṇyākṣa and Hiraṇyakaśipu, the sons of Diti, and were both killed.

  2. 2

    By illusion, they considered the Supreme Lord their enemy, although He is situated in everyone’s heart.

  3. 3

    Nārada Muni explains how these associates were killed by Lord Viṣṇu Himself in three different births. They later appeared as Śiśupāla and Dantavakra.

Key points from the purport
  • Śiśupāla and Dantavakra were the same Hiraṇyākṣa and Hiraṇyakaśipu.
  • Here Nārada Muni is relating how in three different births the associates of Lord Viṣṇu were killed by Lord Viṣṇu Himself.
  • First they were the demons Hiraṇyākṣa and Hiraṇyakaśipu.

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

Terror and divine fury → Protection and compassion. The crisis resolves through relationship rather than domination.

Chapters 8–10 of Canto 7: Nṛsiṁhadeva appears; Prahlāda pacifies Him. An editorial reading of the story's mood, not the text itself. See the emotional arc

Further reading

Chapter 10: Prahlāda, the Best Among Exalted Devotees

From the chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:

The Lord advised Lord Brahmā not to offer benedictions to asuras as he had to Hiraṇyakaśipu, for such benedictions indulge them. Then Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva disappeared.
Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in chapter 7.10
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Word for word

Learn the Sanskrit words of the verse.

  1. evamin this way
  2. caalso
  3. pārṣadauthe two personal associates
  4. viṣṇoḥof Lord Viṣṇu
  5. putratvambecoming the sons
  6. prāpitauhaving gotten
  7. diteḥof Diti
  8. hṛdiwithin the core of the heart
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Key ideas in this verse

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

  • Īśānukathā · The science of God

    Who is the Lord, and how do His devotees live? · Subject 7 of 10

  • Moha · Material attachment

    The pull of ego, desire and impermanent relationships. · Theme in SB 7.10

    In this verse: “illusion”

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

How might remembering the Lord within everyone’s heart change my outlook?

Practice

Pause today to remember that the Supreme Lord is situated in your heart and in everyone else’s heart.

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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 7.10's connections

Live this todayIllusion Makes the Lord Seem an EnemyThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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