श्रीमद् भागवतम्
स्कन्ध:स्कन्ध 2
अध्याय:अध्याय 9
भाषा:देवनागरी
श्लोकाः
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श्रीशुक उवाचआत्ममायामृते राजन् परस्यानुभवात्मन: ।न घटेतार्थसम्बन्ध: स्वप्नद्रष्टुरिवाञ्जसा ॥ १ ॥
Translation: Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O King, unless one is influenced by the energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, there is no meaning to the relationship of the pure soul in pure consciousness with the material body. That relationship is just like a dreamer’s seeing his own body working.
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बहुरूप इवाभाति मायया बहुरूपया ।रममाणो गुणेष्वस्या ममाहमिति मन्यते ॥ २ ॥
Translation: The illusioned living entity appears in so many forms offered by the external energy of the Lord. While enjoying in the modes of material nature, the encaged living entity misconceives, thinking in terms of “I” and “mine.”
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यर्हि वाव महिम्नि स्वे परस्मिन् कालमाययो: ।रमेत गतसम्मोहस्त्यक्त्वोदास्ते तदोभयम् ॥ ३ ॥
Translation: As soon as the living entity becomes situated in his constitutional glory and begins to enjoy the transcendence beyond time and material energy, he at once gives up the two misconceptions of life [I and mine] and thus becomes fully manifested as the pure self.
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आत्मतत्त्वविशुद्ध्यर्थं यदाह भगवानृतम् ।ब्रह्मणे दर्शयन् रूपमव्यलीकव्रतादृत: ॥ ४ ॥
Translation: O King, the Personality of Godhead, being very much pleased with Lord Brahmā because of his nondeceptive penance in bhakti-yoga, presented His eternal and transcendental form before Brahmā. And that is the objective goal for purifying the conditioned soul.
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स आदिदेवो जगतां परो गुरु:स्वधिष्ण्यमास्थाय सिसृक्षयैक्षत ।तां नाध्यगच्छद् दृशमत्र सम्मतांप्रपञ्चनिर्माणविधिर्यया भवेत् ॥ ५ ॥
Translation: Lord Brahmā, the first spiritual master, supreme in the universe, could not trace out the source of his lotus seat, and while thinking of creating the material world, he could not understand the proper direction for such creative work, nor could he find out the process for such creation.
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स चिन्तयन् द्वयक्षरमेकदाम्भ-स्युपाशृणोद् द्विर्गदितं वचो विभु: ।स्पर्शेषु यत्षोडशमेकविंशंनिष्किञ्चनानां नृप यद् धनं विदु: ॥ ६ ॥
Translation: While thus engaged in thinking, in the water, Brahmājī heard twice from nearby two syllables joined together. One of the syllables was taken from the sixteenth and the other from the twenty-first of the sparśa alphabets, and both joined to become the wealth of the renounced order of life.
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निशम्य तद्वक्तृदिदृक्षया दिशोविलोक्य तत्रान्यदपश्यमान: ।स्वधिष्ण्यमास्थाय विमृश्य तद्धितंतपस्युपादिष्ट इवादधे मन: ॥ ७ ॥
Translation: When he heard the sound, he tried to find the speaker, searching on all sides. But when he was unable to find anyone besides himself, he thought it wise to sit down on his lotus seat firmly and give his attention to the execution of penance, as he was instructed.
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दिव्यं सहस्राब्दममोघदर्शनोजितानिलात्मा विजितोभयेन्द्रिय: ।अतप्यत स्माखिललोकतापनंतपस्तपीयांस्तपतां समाहित: ॥ ८ ॥
Translation: Lord Brahmā underwent penances for one thousand years by the calculations of the demigods. He heard this transcendental vibration from the sky, and he accepted it as divine. Thus he controlled his mind and senses, and the penances he executed were a great lesson for the living entities. Thus he is known as the greatest of all ascetics.
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तस्मै स्वलोकं भगवान् सभाजित:सन्दर्शयामास परं न यत्परम् ।व्यपेतसंक्लेशविमोहसाध्वसंस्वदृष्टवद्भिर्पुरुषैरभिष्टुतम् ॥ ९ ॥
Translation: The Personality of Godhead, being thus very much satisfied with the penance of Lord Brahmā, was pleased to manifest His personal abode, Vaikuṇṭha, the supreme planet above all others. This transcendental abode of the Lord is adored by all self-realized persons freed from all kinds of miseries and fear of illusory existence.
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प्रवर्तते यत्र रजस्तमस्तयो:सत्त्वं च मिश्रं न च कालविक्रम: ।न यत्र माया किमुतापरे हरे-रनुव्रता यत्र सुरासुरार्चिता: ॥ १० ॥
Translation: In that personal abode of the Lord, the material modes of ignorance and passion do not prevail, nor is there any of their influence in goodness. There is no predominance of the influence of time, so what to speak of the illusory, external energy; it cannot enter that region. Without discrimination, both the demigods and the demons worship the Lord as devotees.
11-46
[Translations of verses 11 to 46 omitted for brevity]
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