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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
7.10.43-447.10.46

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam · Text 7.10.45

Mukti· Liberation
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

धर्मो भागवतानां च भगवान्येन गम्यते ।

आख्यानेऽस्मिन्समाम्नातमाध्यात्मिकमशेषत: ॥ ४५ ॥

dharmo bhāgavatānāṁ ca

bhagavān yena gamyate

ākhyāne ’smin samāmnātam

ādhyātmikam aśeṣataḥ

Translation

The principles of religion by which one can actually understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead are called bhāgavata-dharma. In this narration, therefore, which deals with these principles, actual transcendence is properly described.

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

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Education Should Lead to Devotional Service

  1. 1

    Bhāgavata-dharma means religious principles through which one can understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

  2. 2

    These principles explain Brahman, the Lord’s impersonal feature, and Paramātmā, His localized aspect. One who understands them becomes a devotee and performs bhāgavata-dharma.

  3. 3

    Understanding the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the real purpose of education and should begin early. One must hear about and describe Lord Viṣṇu and His incarnations.

Key points from the purport
  • Through the principles of religion, one can understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Brahman (the impersonal feature of the Supreme Lord) and Paramātmā (the localized aspect of the Lord).
  • To understand the science of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the real purpose of education.
  • This narration concerning Prahlāda Mahārāja and Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva, therefore, has properly described spiritual, transcendental subjects.

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:

Prahlāda Mahārāja, therefore, did not ask anything from the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Rather, he said that if the Lord wanted to give him a benediction, he wanted the Lord to assure him that he would never be induced to take any benedictions for the sake of material desires.
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. dharmaḥreligious principles
  2. bhāgavatānāmof the devotees
  3. caand
  4. bhagavānthe Supreme Personality of Godhead
  5. yenaby which
  6. gamyateone can understand
  7. ākhyānein the narration
  8. asminthis
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Key ideas in this verse

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

  • Mukti · Liberation

    What is real freedom for the soul? · Subject 9 of 10

  • Dharma · Duty and righteous conduct

    Right action as duty, responsibility and devotion. · Theme in SB 7.10

    In this verse: “religion”, “principles”, “religious”

  • Kīrtana · Hearing and chanting

    Remembering the Lord through sacred sound. · Theme in SB 7.10

    In this verse: “narration”

  • Jñāna · Spiritual insight

    Inquiry, revelation and discrimination between self and matter. · Theme in SB 7.10

    In this verse: “understand”

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 can my learning help me understand and serve the Supreme Personality of Godhead?

Practice

Spend a few minutes reading this narration, then describe one teaching from it in your own words.

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The story around it

The story this chapter belongs to.

Live this todayEducation Should Lead to Devotional ServiceThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.

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