Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 10 Chapter 5 Verse 25

Canto 10: The Summum Bonum | Chapter 5: The Meeting of Nanda Mahārāja and Vasudeva

Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.5.25

naikatra priya-saḿvāsaḥ

suhṛdāḿ citra-karmaṇām

oghena vyūhyamānānāḿ

plavānāḿ srotaso yathā

SYNONYMS

na — not; ekatra — in one place; priya-saḿvāsaḥ — living together with dear friends and relatives; suhṛdām — of friends; citra-karmaṇām — of all of us who have had varieties of reactions to our past karma; oghena — by the force; vyūhyamānānām — carried away; plavānām — of sticks and other objects floating in the water; srotasaḥ — of the waves; yathā — as.

TRANSLATION

Many planks and sticks, unable to stay together, are carried away by the force of a river's waves. Similarly, although we are intimately related with friends and family members, we are unable to stay together because of our varied past deeds and the waves of time.

PURPORT

Vasudeva was lamenting because he and Nanda Mahārāja could not live together. Yet how could they live together? Vasudeva warns that all of us, even if intimately related, are carried away by the waves of time according to the results of past karma.

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