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  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 9 · Chapter 24: Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead
9.24.579.24.59

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam · Text 9.24.58

Poṣaṇa· The Lord's protection
Who is speaking and story frame
Speaking:The sun-godsince 9.24.34inside 2 frames: Sūta Gosvāmī → the sages at NaimiṣāraṇyaŚukadeva Gosvāmī → King Parīkṣit

यन्मायाचेष्टितं पुंस: स्थित्युत्पत्त्यप्ययाय हि । अनुग्रहस्तन्निवृत्तेरात्मलाभाय चेष्यते ॥ ५८ ॥

yan māyā-ceṣṭitaṁ puṁsaḥ

sthity-utpatty-apyayāya hi

anugrahas tan-nivṛtter

ātma-lābhāya ceṣyate

Translation

The Supreme Personality of Godhead acts through His material energy in the creation, maintenance and annihilation of this cosmic manifestation just to deliver the living entity by His compassion and stop the living entity’s birth, death and duration of materialistic life. Thus He enables the living being to return home, back to Godhead.

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

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Creation Offers a Chance to Return Home

  1. 1

    Living entities are eternal parts of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, alike in spiritual quality but limited in quantity. Wanting to enjoy independently of Kṛṣṇa brings them into material struggle.

  2. 2

    Kṛṣṇa creates the material world out of compassion, giving living beings a chance to understand their real position. Human life offers the best opportunity to understand their relationship with Him.

  3. 3

    Real dharma is to surrender unto Kṛṣṇa. The purpose of creation is to restore Kṛṣṇa consciousness, stop repeated birth and death, and return home, back to Godhead.

Key points from the purport
  • In this way, the conditioned soul undergoes a great struggle for existence in this material world, and therefore the Lord, out of compassion for him, appears in this world and instructs him.
  • Therefore out of compassion Kṛṣṇa creates this material world to give the living entity a chance to understand his real position.
  • Every human being, therefore, should take advantage of this creation by understanding Kṛṣṇa and his relationship with Kṛṣṇa and in this way return home, back to Godhead.

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· 5

The purport of SB 9.24.58 quotesBG 15.7

The material creation is certainly meant for the suffering of the conditioned souls, who are part of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, as confirmed by the Lord Himself in Bhagavad-gītā (15.7): “The living entities in this conditioned world are My eternal, fragmental parts.

The purport of SB 9.24.58 quotesSB 10.2.32

Āruhya kṛcchreṇa paraṁ padaṁ tataḥ patanty adhaḥ. Even having attained that paraṁ padam, having merged into the impersonal Brahman, he falls again to the material world.

The purport of SB 9.24.58 quotesBG 4.7

Thus the Lord says in Bhagavad-gītā (4.7): “Whenever and wherever there is a decline in religious practice, O descendant of Bharata, and a predominant rise of irreligion — at that time I descend Myself.”

The purport of SB 9.24.58 quotesBG 15.15

Vedaiś ca sarvair aham eva vedyaḥ. All these Vedic literatures are meant to enable the human being to understand what he is, what his actual position is, and what his relationship is with the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

The purport of SB 9.24.58 quotesBG 16.8

It is produced of sex desire and has no cause other than lust.”

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

Historical movement → Anticipation. The narrative narrows toward its divine center.

Chapters 20–24 of Canto 9: Lineages leading to the appearance of Kṛṣṇa. An editorial reading of the story's mood, not the text itself. See the emotional arc

Further reading

Chapter 24: Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead

From the chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:

Vasudeva had many other sons by his other wives, and the eighth son to appear from the womb of Devakī was the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who delivered the entire world from the burden of demons. This chapter ends by glorifying the Supreme Personality of Godhead Vāsudeva.
Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in chapter 9.24
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Word for word

Learn the Sanskrit words of the verse.

  1. yatwhatever
  2. māyā-ceṣṭitamthe laws of material nature enacted by the Supreme Personality of Godhead
  3. puṁsaḥof the living entities
  4. sthitiduration of life
  5. utpattibirth
  6. apyayāyaannihilation
  7. hiindeed
  8. anugrahaḥcompassion
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Key ideas in this verse

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

  • Poṣaṇa · Protection by the Lord

    How does the Lord care for His devotees? · Subject 4 of 10

  • Moha · Material attachment

    The pull of ego, desire and impermanent relationships. · Theme in SB 9.24

    In this verse: “material”

  • Karuṇā · Compassion

    Concern for others expressed through bhakti. · Theme in SB 9.24

    In this verse: “compassion”

  • Abhaya · Fearlessness

    Steadiness through faith amid danger and death. · Theme in SB 9.24

    In this verse: “death”

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

Where do you notice the wish to enjoy independently of Kṛṣṇa in your own life?

Practice

Spend a few minutes reading Bhagavad-gītā with the aim of understanding your relationship with Kṛṣṇa.

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Connected stories

Keep going: stories told elsewhere in the Bhāgavatam that this verse or its purport brings in.

The purport quotesSB 10.2.32

Found where this verse or Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport names them. See all of chapter 9.24's connections

Live this todayCreation Offers a Chance to Return HomeThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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