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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam · Text 7.10.48

Who is speaking and story frame

यूयं नृलोके बत भूरिभागा

लोकं पुनाना मुनयोऽभियन्ति ।

येषां गृहानावसतीति साक्षाद्

गूढं परं ब्रह्म मनुष्यलिङ्गम् ॥ ४८ ॥

yūyaṁ nṛ-loke bata bhūri-bhāgā

lokaṁ punānā munayo ’bhiyanti

yeṣāṁ gṛhān āvasatīti sākṣād

gūḍhaṁ paraṁ brahma manuṣya-liṅgam

Translation

Nārada Muni continued: My dear Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira, all of you [the Pāṇḍavas] are extremely fortunate, for the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, lives in your palace just like a human being. Great saintly persons know this very well, and therefore they constantly visit this house.

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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Kṛṣṇa’s Presence Is the Greatest Fortune

  1. 1

    A pure devotee wants to follow Prahlāda Mahārāja but may feel incompetent and unqualified. Such humility is the nature of a pure devotee.

  2. 2

    Nārada Muni encouraged Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira by explaining the Pāṇḍavas’ extraordinary fortune. Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead in His original form, lived with them constantly.

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    Saintly persons understood this fortune and regularly visited their house. Any pure devotee who is constantly conscious of Kṛṣṇa is naturally very fortunate.

Key points from the purport
  • Nārada Muni, however, could understand Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira’s mind, and therefore he immediately encouraged him by saying that the Pāṇḍavas were not less fortunate; they were as good as Prahlāda Mahārāja because although Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva appeared for Prahlāda, the Supreme Personality of Godhead in His original form as Kṛṣṇa was always living with the Pāṇḍavas.
  • Although the Pāṇḍavas, because of the influence of Kṛṣṇa’s yoga-māyā, could not think of their fortunate position, every saintly person, including the great sage Nārada, could understand it, and therefore they constantly visited Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira.
  • Nārada Muni therefore specifically mentioned that within this material world (nṛ-loke) the Pāṇḍavas were the most fortunate.

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

Quoted in the purport ofSB 10.63.34

The great ācārya Jīva Gosvāmī also quotes a verse from the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (7.10.48) — gūḍhaṁ paraṁ brahma manuṣya-liṅgam — which refers to “the Supreme Truth concealed in a humanlike form.”

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

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:

Nārada Muni praised Yudhiṣṭhira Mahārāja because the Supreme Lord, Kṛṣṇa, was the greatest well-wisher and friend of the Pāṇḍavas and almost always stayed in their house. Thus the fortune of the Pāṇḍavas was greater than that of Prahlāda Mahārāja.
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. yūyamall of you (the Pāṇḍavas)
  2. nṛ-lokewithin this material world
  3. batahowever
  4. bhūri-bhāgāḥextremely fortunate
  5. lokamall the planets
  6. punānāḥwho can purify
  7. munayaḥgreat saintly persons
  8. abhiyantialmost always come to visit
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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

  • Bhakti · Devotion and loving service

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

    In this verse: “devotee”

  • Dainya · Humility

    Ego yields to insight, service and surrender. · Theme in SB 7.10

    In this verse: “humility”

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

When I feel unqualified, can I still value the opportunity to be conscious of Kṛṣṇa?

Practice

Pause once today to remember Kṛṣṇa and appreciate the opportunity to develop devotion to Him.

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The story around it

The story this chapter belongs to.

Live this todayKṛṣṇa’s Presence Is the Greatest FortuneThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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