Bhagavata Purana — Skandha 11 — Chapter 12
SB 11 12.1
श्री-भगवान् उवाच न रोधयति मां योगो न साङ्ख्यं धर्म एव च न स्वाध्यायस् तपस् त्यागो नेष्टा-पूर्तं न दक्षिणा
śrī-bhagavān uvāca na rodhayati māṃ yogo na sāṅkhyaṃ dharma eva ca na svādhyāyas tapas tyāgo neṣṭā-pūrtaṃ na dakṣiṇā
The Blessed Lord said: Yoga does not bring me under control, nor Sāṅkhya, nor righteousness, nor recitation of scripture, austerity, renunciation, nor sacrifice and charitable works, nor gifts (to priests),
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
SB 11 12.2
व्रतानि यज्ञश् छन्दांसि तीर्थानि नियमा यमाः यथावरुन्धे सत्-सङ्गः सर्व-सङ्गापहो हि माम्
vratāni yajñaś chandāṃsi tīrthāni niyamā yamāḥ yathāvarundhe sat-saṅgaḥ sarva-saṅgāpaho hi mām
nor vows, sacrifice, the Vedic metres, holy places, observances and restraints — (none of these) win me as does the company of the good, which removes all attachment.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
SB 11 12.3
सत्-सङ्गेन हि दैतेया यातुधाना मृगाः खगाः गन्धर्वाप्सरसो नागाः सिद्धाश् चारण-गुह्यकाः
sat-saṅgena hi daiteyā yātudhānā mṛgāḥ khagāḥ gandharvāpsaraso nāgāḥ siddhāś cāraṇa-guhyakāḥ
For by the company of the good, sons of Diti, demons, beasts, birds, Gandharvas, Apsarases, Nāgas, Siddhas, Cāraṇas and Guhyakas,
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SB 11 12.4
विद्याधरा मनुष्येषु वैश्याः शूद्राः स्त्रियो ऽन्त्य-जाः रजस्-तमः-प्रकृतयस् तस्मिंस् तस्मिन् युगे युगे
vidyādharā manuṣyeṣu vaiśyāḥ śūdrāḥ striyo 'ntya-jāḥ rajas-tamaḥ-prakṛtayas tasmiṃs tasmin yuge yuge
Vidyādharas, and among men Vaiśyas, Śūdras, women, the lowest-born — those whose nature is of passion and darkness — in this age and that, age after age,
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
SB 11 12.5
बहवो मत्-पदं प्राप्तास् त्वाष्ट्र-कायाधवादयः वृषपर्वा बलिर् बाणो मयश् चाथ विभीषणः
bahavo mat-padaṃ prāptās tvāṣṭra-kāyādhavādayaḥ vṛṣaparvā balir bāṇo mayaś cātha vibhīṣaṇaḥ
many have attained my station: the son of Tvaṣṭā, the son of Kayādhu and others, Vṛṣaparvan, Bali, Bāṇa, Maya, and also Vibhīṣaṇa,
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SB 11 12.6
सुग्रीवो हनुमान् ऋक्षो गजो गृध्रो वणिक्पथः व्याधः कुब्जा व्रजे गोप्यो यज्ञ-पत्न्यस् तथापरे
sugrīvo hanumān ṛkṣo gajo gṛdhro vaṇikpathaḥ vyādhaḥ kubjā vraje gopyo yajña-patnyas tathāpare
Sugrīva, Hanumān, the bear (Jāmbavān), the elephant (Gajendra), the vulture, the merchant, the hunter, the hunchbacked woman, the cowherd women in Vraja, the wives of the sacrificing priests, and others too.
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SB 11 12.7
ते नाधीत-श्रुति-गणा नोपासित-महत्तमाः अव्रतातप्त-तपसः मत्-सङ्गान् माम् उपागताः
te nādhīta-śruti-gaṇā nopāsita-mahattamāḥ avratātapta-tapasaḥ mat-saṅgān mām upāgatāḥ
They had not studied the collections of Vedic texts, nor worshipped the greatest ones, they kept no vows and performed no austerities; by association with me they came to me.
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SB 11 12.8
केवलेन हि भावेन गोप्यो गावो नगा मृगाः ये ऽन्ये मूढ-धियो नागाः सिद्धा माम् ईयुर् अञ्जसा
kevalena hi bhāvena gopyo gāvo nagā mṛgāḥ ye 'nye mūḍha-dhiyo nāgāḥ siddhā mām īyur añjasā
For by pure feeling alone the cowherd women, the cows, the trees, the deer, the serpents and others of dull understanding became perfected and reached me directly.
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SB 11 12.9
यं न योगेन साङ्ख्येन दान-व्रत-तपो-ऽध्वरैः व्याख्या-स्वाध्याय-सन्न्यासैः प्राप्नुयाद् यत्नवान् अपि
yaṃ na yogena sāṅkhyena dāna-vrata-tapo-'dhvaraiḥ vyākhyā-svādhyāya-sannyāsaiḥ prāpnuyād yatnavān api
(Me,) whom even a man of effort could not attain by yoga, by Sāṅkhya, by charity, vows, austerities and sacrifices, by exposition (of scripture), private recitation, or renunciation —
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SB 11 12.10
रामेण सार्धं मथुरां प्रणीते श्वाफल्किना मय्य् अनुरक्त-चित्ताः विगाढ-भावेन न मे वियोग- तीव्राधयो ऽन्यं ददृशुः सुखाय
rāmeṇa sārdhaṃ mathurāṃ praṇīte śvāphalkinā mayy anurakta-cittāḥ vigāḍha-bhāvena na me viyoga- tīvrādhayo 'nyaṃ dadṛśuḥ sukhāya
when I had been taken away to Mathurā together with Rāma by the son of Śvaphalka, they, their minds attached to me with intense love and their pangs of separation from me acute, saw nothing else that could give them happiness.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
SB 11 12.11
तास् ताः क्षपाः प्रेष्ठतमेन नीता मयैव वृन्दावन-गोचरेण क्षणार्ध-वत् ताः पुनर् अङ्ग तासां हीना मया कल्प-समा बभूवुः
tās tāḥ kṣapāḥ preṣṭhatamena nītā mayaiva vṛndāvana-gocareṇa kṣaṇārdha-vat tāḥ punar aṅga tāsāṃ hīnā mayā kalpa-samā babhūvuḥ
Those nights, spent with me, their dearest, present there in Vṛndāvana, passed like half a moment; but those same nights, my dear one, when they were without me, became as long as an aeon.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
SB 11 12.12
ता नाविदन् मय्य् अनुषङ्ग-बद्ध- धियः स्वम् आत्मानम् अदस् तथेदम् यथा समाधौ मुनयो ऽब्धि-तोये नद्यः प्रविष्टा इव नाम-रूपे
tā nāvidan mayy anuṣaṅga-baddha- dhiyaḥ svam ātmānam adas tathedam yathā samādhau munayo 'bdhi-toye nadyaḥ praviṣṭā iva nāma-rūpe
Their minds bound by unbroken attachment to me, they did not know their own selves, nor that (world) nor this — as sages in deep meditation (do not know) name and form, like rivers that have entered the water of the ocean.
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SB 11 12.13
मत्-कामा रमणं जारम् अस्वरूप-विदो ऽबलाः ब्रह्म मां परमं प्रापुः सङ्गाच् छत-सहस्रशः
mat-kāmā ramaṇaṃ jāram asvarūpa-vido 'balāḥ brahma māṃ paramaṃ prāpuḥ saṅgāc chata-sahasraśaḥ
Desiring me, (regarding me as) a lover and paramour, not knowing my true nature, those women attained me, the supreme Brahman, through association (with me) — by hundreds of thousands.
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SB 11 12.14
तस्मात् त्वम् उद्धवोत्सृज्य चोदनां प्रतिचोदनाम् प्रवृत्तिं च निवृत्तिं च श्रोतव्यं श्रुतम् एव च
tasmāt tvam uddhavotsṛjya codanāṃ praticodanām pravṛttiṃ ca nivṛttiṃ ca śrotavyaṃ śrutam eva ca
Therefore, Uddhava, giving up injunction and counter-injunction, action and abstention from action, what is to be heard and what has been heard,
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SB 11 12.15
माम् एकम् एव शरणम् आत्मानं सर्व-देहिनाम् याहि सर्वात्म-भावेन मया स्या ह्य् अकुतो-भयः
mām ekam eva śaraṇam ātmānaṃ sarva-dehinām yāhi sarvātma-bhāvena mayā syā hy akuto-bhayaḥ
go to me alone as your refuge, the Self of all embodied beings, with your whole being; by me you shall become free from fear from any quarter.
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SB 11 12.16
श्री-उद्धव उवाच संशयः शृण्वतो वाचं तव योगेश्वरेश्वर न निवर्तत आत्म-स्थो येन भ्राम्यति मे मनः
śrī-uddhava uvāca saṃśayaḥ śṛṇvato vācaṃ tava yogeśvareśvara na nivartata ātma-stho yena bhrāmyati me manaḥ
Śrī Uddhava said: O Lord of the lords of yoga, though I listen to your words, the doubt lodged within me does not go away, and by it my mind is made to whirl.
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SB 11 12.17
श्री-भगवान् उवाच स एष जीवो विवर-प्रसूतिः प्राणेन घोषेण गुहां प्रविष्टः मनो-मयं सूक्ष्मम् उपेत्य रूपं मात्रा स्वरो वर्ण इति स्थविष्ठः
śrī-bhagavān uvāca sa eṣa jīvo vivara-prasūtiḥ prāṇena ghoṣeṇa guhāṃ praviṣṭaḥ mano-mayaṃ sūkṣmam upetya rūpaṃ mātrā svaro varṇa iti sthaviṣṭhaḥ
The Blessed Lord said: This same living being, born in the cavity, enters the hollow (of the mouth) as sound by means of the vital air; taking on a subtle form made of mind, it becomes grosser as quantity, pitch and phoneme.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
SB 11 12.18
यथानलः खे ऽनिल-बन्धुर् उष्मा बलेन दारुण्य् अधिमथ्यमानः अणुः प्रजातो हविषा समेधते तथैव मे व्यक्तिर् इयं हि वाणी
yathānalaḥ khe 'nila-bandhur uṣmā balena dāruṇy adhimathyamānaḥ aṇuḥ prajāto haviṣā samedhate tathaiva me vyaktir iyaṃ hi vāṇī
As fire, latent in space as heat, kinsman of the wind, when churned out of wood by force, is born tiny and then flares up with oblations — just so is this speech a manifestation of me.
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SB 11 12.19
एवं गदिः कर्म गतिर् विसर्गो घ्राणो रसो दृक् स्पर्शः श्रुतिश् च सङ्कल्प-विज्ञानम् अथाभिमानः सूत्रं रजः-सत्त्व-तमो-विकारः
evaṃ gadiḥ karma gatir visargo ghrāṇo raso dṛk sparśaḥ śrutiś ca saṅkalpa-vijñānam athābhimānaḥ sūtraṃ rajaḥ-sattva-tamo-vikāraḥ
So too speech, action, movement, excretion, smell, taste, sight, touch and hearing, and volition, discernment and then egoism — (all this is) the thread (sūtra), a transformation of rajas, sattva and tamas.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
SB 11 12.20
अयं हि जीवस् त्रि-वृद् अब्ज-योनिर् अव्यक्त एको वयसा स आद्यः विश्लिष्ट-शक्तिर् बहुधेव भाति बीजानि योनिं प्रतिपद्य यद्वत्
ayaṃ hi jīvas tri-vṛd abja-yonir avyakta eko vayasā sa ādyaḥ viśliṣṭa-śaktir bahudheva bhāti bījāni yoniṃ pratipadya yadvat
For this living being is threefold, the source of the lotus (of the universe), unmanifest, one, and by age the first; when its powers unfold it appears as though many, just as seeds, on reaching the soil, (become many).
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SB 11 12.21
यस्मिन्न् इदं प्रोतम् अशेषम् ओतं पटो यथा तन्तु-वितान-संस्थः य एष संसार-तरुः पुराणः कर्मात्मकः पुष्प-फले प्रसूते
yasminn idaṃ protam aśeṣam otaṃ paṭo yathā tantu-vitāna-saṃsthaḥ ya eṣa saṃsāra-taruḥ purāṇaḥ karmātmakaḥ puṣpa-phale prasūte
That in which all this is woven, warp and weft, as a cloth stands on the spread of its threads; this ancient tree of transmigration, consisting of action, puts forth flower and fruit.
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SB 11 12.22
द्वे अस्य बीजे शत-मूलस् त्रि-नालः पञ्च-स्कन्धः पञ्च-रस-प्रसूतिः दशैक-शाखो द्वि-सुपर्ण-नीडस् त्रि-वल्कलो द्वि-फलो ऽर्कं प्रविष्टः
dve asya bīje śata-mūlas tri-nālaḥ pañca-skandhaḥ pañca-rasa-prasūtiḥ daśaika-śākho dvi-suparṇa-nīḍas tri-valkalo dvi-phalo 'rkaṃ praviṣṭaḥ
It has two seeds, a hundred roots, three stems, five trunks; it produces five saps, has eleven branches, is the nest of two birds, has three barks, two fruits, and it reaches into the sun.
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SB 11 12.23
अदन्ति चैकं फलम् अस्य गृध्रा ग्रामे-चरा एकम् अरण्य-वासाः हंसा य एकं बहु-रूपम् इज्यैर् माया-मयं वेद स वेद वेदम्
adanti caikaṃ phalam asya gṛdhrā grāme-carā ekam araṇya-vāsāḥ haṃsā ya ekaṃ bahu-rūpam ijyair māyā-mayaṃ veda sa veda vedam
One of its fruits is eaten by the vultures who dwell in villages, the other by the swans who live in the forest; he who, by means of the teachers, knows the one that has become many by māyā, he knows the Veda.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
SB 11 12.24
एवं गुरूपासनयैक-भक्त्या विद्या-कुठारेण शितेन धीरः विवृश्च्य जीवाशयम् अप्रमत्तः सम्पद्य चात्मानम् अथ त्यजास्त्रम्
evaṃ gurūpāsanayaika-bhaktyā vidyā-kuṭhāreṇa śitena dhīraḥ vivṛścya jīvāśayam apramattaḥ sampadya cātmānam atha tyajāstram
Thus, by service to the teacher with single-hearted devotion, let the steady man, undistracted, cut down the resting-place of the living being with the whetted axe of knowledge, and, having attained the Self, then lay aside the weapon.
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