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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
7.10.467.10.48

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam · Text 7.10.47

Nirodha· Winding up
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

एतद्य आदिपुरुषस्य मृगेन्द्रलीलां

दैत्येन्द्रयूथपवधं प्रयत: पठेत ।

दैत्यात्मजस्य च सतां प्रवरस्य पुण्यं

श्रुत्वानुभावमकुतोभयमेति लोकम् ॥ ४७ ॥

etad ya ādi-puruṣasya mṛgendra-līlāṁ

daityendra-yūtha-pa-vadhaṁ prayataḥ paṭheta

daityātmajasya ca satāṁ pravarasya puṇyaṁ

śrutvānubhāvam akuto-bhayam eti lokam

Translation

Prahlāda Mahārāja was the best among exalted devotees. Anyone who with great attention hears this narration concerning the activities of Prahlāda Mahārāja, the killing of Hiraṇyakaśipu, and the activities of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Nṛsiṁhadeva, surely reaches the spiritual world, where there is no anxiety.

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

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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Attentive Hearing Leads Beyond Anxiety

  1. 1

    Prahlāda Mahārāja was the best among exalted devotees.

  2. 2

    This narration concerns his activities, the killing of Hiraṇyakaśipu, and the activities of Nṛsiṁhadeva, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

  3. 3

    Anyone who hears this narration with great attention surely reaches the spiritual world, where there is no anxiety.

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. etatthis narration
  2. yaḥanyone who
  3. ādi-puruṣasyaof the original Personality of Godhead
  4. mṛga-indra-līlāmpastimes as a lion and human being combined
  5. daitya-indraof the King of the demons
  6. yūtha-paas strong as an elephant
  7. vadhamthe killing
  8. prayataḥwith great attention
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Key ideas in this verse

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

  • Nirodha · Returning home, back to Godhead

    What happens when everything here comes to an end? · Subject 8 of 10

  • Bhakti · Devotion and loving service

    How devotion reorganizes desire and action. · Theme in SB 7.10

    In this verse: “devotees”

  • Kīrtana · Hearing and chanting

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

    In this verse: “narration”

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

What distracts me from giving this narration my full attention?

Practice

Set aside distractions and spend five minutes attentively reading this narration.

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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 todayAttentive Hearing Leads Beyond AnxietyThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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