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Canto 7 · The Science of God · 15 chapters

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How to study this verse, in six steps

1Chant the verse. Say the Sanskrit slowly and carefully.
2Read the word meanings. Go through each Sanskrit word and its meaning.
3Find the meaning yourself. Before the translation, piece the meaning together from the words.
4Read the translation. Ask: what is the Lord teaching here, and how does it apply to my life?
5Read the purport slowly. Read it two or three times. Don't rush.
6Write down what touched you. Note the main points in your own notebook.

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Canto 7 · Chapter 9: Prahlāda Pacifies Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva with Prayers

7.9.29 7.9.31

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam · Text 7.9.30

Āśraya· The supreme shelter

Who is speaking and story frame

Speaking:Prahlāda Mahārājasince 7.9.9inside 3 frames: Sūta Gosvāmī → the sages at NaimiṣāraṇyaŚukadeva Gosvāmī → King ParīkṣitNārada Muni → Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira

एकस्त्वमेव जगदेतममुष्य यत्त्व-

माद्यन्तयो: पृथगवस्यसि मध्यतश्च ।

सृष्ट्वा गुणव्यतिकरं निजमाययेदं

नानेव तैरवसितस्तदनुप्रविष्ट: ॥ ३० ॥

ekas tvam eva jagad etam amuṣya yat tvam

ādy-antayoḥ pṛthag avasyasi madhyataś ca

sṛṣṭvā guṇa-vyatikaraṁ nija-māyayedaṁ

nāneva tair avasitas tad anupraviṣṭaḥ

Translation

My dear Lord, You alone manifest Yourself as the entire cosmic manifestation, for You existed before the creation, You exist after the annihilation, and You are the maintainer between the beginning and the end. All this is done by Your external energy through actions and reactions of the three modes of material nature. Therefore whatever exists — externally and internally — is You alone.

Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.io

Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Everything Rests in Kṛṣṇa’s Energy

1
Govinda, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, creates through His external energy and enters every universe and atomic particle. He exists before creation, maintains it, and remains after annihilation.
2
Everything rests in the Lord, yet He exists separately, beyond creation, maintenance and annihilation. His activities in maintaining His devotees are transcendental, not material.
3
Both material and spiritual energies belong to the Supreme Lord; without Kṛṣṇa, nothing can exist. The energy in which His all-pervasiveness is not realized is called material.

Key points from the purport

To create this cosmic manifestation, Govinda, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, expands His external energy and thus enters everything in the universe, including the atomic particles.
The entire cosmic manifestation is but an expansion of the Lord’s energy; everything rests in Him, yet He exists separately, beyond creation, maintenance and annihilation.
Both energies, however, belong to the Supreme Lord, and therefore in a higher sense there is no exhibition of material energy because everything is spiritual energy.

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

The purport of SB 7.9.30 quotesBG 9.4

This is also confirmed in Bhagavad-gītā (9.4): The entire cosmic manifestation is but an expansion of the Lord’s energy; everything rests in Him, yet He exists separately, beyond creation, maintenance and annihilation.

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

Chapter 9: Prahlāda Pacifies Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva with Prayers

From the chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:

Although the entire cosmic manifestation is nondifferent, the material world is nonetheless different from the spiritual world. Only by the mercy of the Supreme Lord can one understand how the wonderful material nature acts.

Read the whole chapter summary Back to this verse in chapter 7.9

Word for word

Learn the Sanskrit words of the verse.

ekaḥone
tvamYou
evaonly
jagatthe cosmic manifestation
etamthis
amuṣyaof that (the whole universe)
yatsince
tvamYou

Key ideas in this verse

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

Āśraya · The summum bonum
Who is the shelter of everything? · Subject 10 of 10
Moha · Material attachment
The pull of ego, desire and impermanent relationships. · Theme in SB 7.9
In this verse: “material”
Bhakti · Devotion and loving service
How devotion reorganizes desire and action. · Theme in SB 7.9
In this verse: “devotees”

Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

How might remembering that everything rests in Kṛṣṇa change my attitude toward what I use each day?

Practice

Choose one ordinary object you use today, reflect that it exists through the Lord’s energy, and use it in a small act of devotional service.

The story around it

The story this chapter belongs to.

Śrīla Prabhupāda speaks

His recorded lectures on this verse, and the talks where he quotes it.

1 lecture given on it. Recordings and transcripts on prabhupada.io.

SB 7.9.308 Mar 1976 · MayapurListen

Live this todayEverything Rests in Kṛṣṇa’s EnergyThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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