Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 10 Chapter 63 Verse 40

Canto 10: The Summum Bonum | Chapter 63: Lord Kṛṣṇa Fights with Bāṇāsura

Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.63.40

yan-māyā-mohita-dhiyaḥ

putra-dāra-gṛhādiṣu

unmajjanti nimajjanti

prasaktā vṛjinārṇave

SYNONYMS

yat — of whom; māyā — by the illusory energy; mohita — bewildered; dhiyaḥ — their intelligence; putra — with regard to children; dāra — wife; gṛha — home; ādiṣu — and so on; unmajjanti — they rise to the surface; nimajjanti — they become submerged; prasaktāḥ — fully entangled; vṛjina — of misery; arṇave — in the ocean.

TRANSLATION

Their intelligence bewildered by Your māyā, fully attached to children, wife, home and so on, persons immersed in the ocean of material misery sometimes rise to the surface and sometimes sink down.

PURPORT

Śrīla Śrīdhara Svāmī explains that "rising in the ocean of misery" indicates elevation to higher species, such as demigods, and that "being submerged" refers to degradation to lower species — even to immobile forms of life such as trees. As stated in the Vāyu Purāṇa, viparyayaś ca bhavati brahmatva-sthāvaratvayoḥ: "The living being rotates between the position of Brahmā and that of an unmoving creature."

Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī points out that Śiva, having glorified the Lord, now pursues his original intention of securing the Lord's grace for Bāṇāsura. Thus in this and the following four verses, Lord Śiva instructs Bāṇa on his actual position in relation to the Lord. Śiva's appeal to the Lord for compassion toward Bāṇa appears in Text 45.

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