Bhagavata Purana — Skandha 8 — Chapter 3

SB 8 3.1

श्रीबादरायणिरुवाच एवं व्यवसितो बुद्ध्या समाधाय मनो हृदि जजाप परमं जाप्यं प्राग्जन्मन्य् अनुशिक्षितम्

śrībādarāyaṇiruvāca evaṃ vyavasito buddhyā samādhāya mano hṛdi jajāpa paramaṃ jāpyaṃ prāgjanmany anuśikṣitam

Śrī Bādarāyaṇi said: Having resolved thus with his intelligence, fixing his mind in the heart, he recited the supreme prayer he had learned in a former birth.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

SB 8 3.2

श्रीगजेन्द्र उवाच ॐ नमो भगवते तस्मै यत एतच् चिदात्मकम् पुरुषायादिबीजाय परेशायाभिधीमहि

śrīgajendra uvāca oṃ namo bhagavate tasmai yata etac cidātmakam puruṣāyādibījāya pareśāyābhidhīmahi

The lord of elephants said: Om. Homage to that Blessed One from whom this (world), whose essence is consciousness, (arises); on the Person, the primal seed, the supreme Lord, let us meditate.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

SB 8 3.3

यस्मिन्निदं यतश्चेदं येनेदं य इदं स्वयम् यो ऽस्मात् परस्माच् च परस्तं प्रपद्ये स्वयम्भुवम्

yasminnidaṃ yataścedaṃ yenedaṃ ya idaṃ svayam yo 'smāt parasmāc ca parastaṃ prapadye svayambhuvam

In whom this (universe rests), from whom this (comes), by whom this (is made), who himself is this, and who is beyond this and beyond the beyond—to him, the self-existent, I surrender.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

SB 8 3.4

यः स्वात्मनीदं निजमाययार्पितं क्वचिद्विभातं क्व च तत् तिरोहितम् अविद्धदृक् साक्ष्य् उभयं तदीक्षते स आत्ममूलो ऽवतु मां परात्परः

yaḥ svātmanīdaṃ nijamāyayārpitaṃ kvacidvibhātaṃ kva ca tat tirohitam aviddhadṛk sākṣy ubhayaṃ tadīkṣate sa ātmamūlo 'vatu māṃ parātparaḥ

He who, when this (world), projected by his own māyā upon his own self, at one time shines forth and at another is hidden—as witness with unobstructed vision he sees both; may he, rooted in himself, higher than the highest, protect me.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

SB 8 3.5

कालेन पञ्चत्वमितेषु कृत्स्नशो लोकेषु पालेषु च सर्वहेतुषु तमस्तदासीद्गहनं गभीरं यस्तस्य पारे ऽभिविराजते विभुः

kālena pañcatvamiteṣu kṛtsnaśo lokeṣu pāleṣu ca sarvahetuṣu tamastadāsīdgahanaṃ gabhīraṃ yastasya pāre 'bhivirājate vibhuḥ

When the worlds together with their guardians and all their causes have wholly gone to dissolution in time, there was then that darkness, dense and deep; the all-pervading One who shines beyond it—

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

SB 8 3.6

न यस्य देवा ऋषयः पदं विदुर् जन्तुः पुनः को ऽर्हति गन्तुमीरितुम् यथा नटस्याकृतिभिर्विचेष्टतो दुरत्ययानुक्रमणः स मावतु

na yasya devā ṛṣayaḥ padaṃ vidur jantuḥ punaḥ ko 'rhati gantumīritum yathā naṭasyākṛtibhirviceṣṭato duratyayānukramaṇaḥ sa māvatu

Whose state neither gods nor sages know—what creature, then, is able to reach or to describe (it)? As with an actor who acts in (many) forms, his course is hard to trace; may he protect me.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

SB 8 3.7

दिदृक्षवो यस्य पदं सुमङ्गलं विमुक्तसङ्गा मुनयः सुसाधवः चरन्त्य् अलोकव्रतमव्रणं वने भूतात्मभूताः सुहृदः स मे गतिः

didṛkṣavo yasya padaṃ sumaṅgalaṃ vimuktasaṅgā munayaḥ susādhavaḥ caranty alokavratamavraṇaṃ vane bhūtātmabhūtāḥ suhṛdaḥ sa me gatiḥ

Desiring to see whose most auspicious state, sages free from attachment, very good men, practice in the forest a vow unknown to the world and unbroken, being friends who feel all beings as their own self—he is my goal.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

SB 8 3.8

न विद्यते यस्य च जन्म कर्म वा न नामरूपे गुणदोष एव वा तथापि लोकाप्ययसम्भवाय यः स्वमायया तान्य् अनुकालमृच्छति

na vidyate yasya ca janma karma vā na nāmarūpe guṇadoṣa eva vā tathāpi lokāpyayasambhavāya yaḥ svamāyayā tāny anukālamṛcchati

He who has no birth nor action, no name and form, nor merit and fault; yet, for the dissolution and creation of the worlds, by his own māyā he takes on these in due time.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

SB 8 3.9

तस्मै नमः परेशाय ब्रह्मणे ऽनन्तशक्तये अरूपायोरुरूपाय नम आश्चर्यकर्मणे

tasmai namaḥ pareśāya brahmaṇe 'nantaśaktaye arūpāyorurūpāya nama āścaryakarmaṇe

To him, homage — to the supreme Lord, to Brahman of endless power, to the formless one who has manifold forms; homage to him whose deeds are wonderful.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

SB 8 3.10

नम आत्मप्रदीपाय साक्षिणे परमात्मने नमो गिरां विदूराय मनसश्चेतसामपि

nama ātmapradīpāya sākṣiṇe paramātmane namo girāṃ vidūrāya manasaścetasāmapi

Homage to the self-illumined one, to the witness, to the Supreme Self; homage to him who is far beyond words, and beyond mind and thought as well.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

SB 8 3.11

सत्त्वेन प्रतिलभ्याय नैष्कर्म्येण विपश्चिता नमः कैवल्यनाथाय निर्वाणसुखसंविदे

sattvena pratilabhyāya naiṣkarmyeṇa vipaścitā namaḥ kaivalyanāthāya nirvāṇasukhasaṃvide

Homage to him who is attained through purity (sattva), by the discerning one through freedom from action; to the Lord of absolute isolation (kaivalya), to him who knows the joy of extinction.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

SB 8 3.12

नमः शान्ताय घोराय मूढाय गुणधर्मिणे निर्विशेषाय साम्याय नमो ज्ञानघनाय च

namaḥ śāntāya ghorāya mūḍhāya guṇadharmiṇe nirviśeṣāya sāmyāya namo jñānaghanāya ca

Homage to the peaceful, to the terrible, to the deluded, to him who takes on the natures of the qualities; homage to the featureless, to the impartial, and to him who is a mass of knowledge.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

SB 8 3.13

क्षेत्रज्ञाय नमस्तुभ्यं सर्वाध्यक्षाय साक्षिणे पुरुषायात्ममूलाय मूलप्रकृतये नमः

kṣetrajñāya namastubhyaṃ sarvādhyakṣāya sākṣiṇe puruṣāyātmamūlāya mūlaprakṛtaye namaḥ

Homage to you, the knower of the field, the overseer of all, the witness; homage to the Person, who is his own root, to the root-nature (of all).

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

SB 8 3.14

सर्वेन्द्रियगुणद्रष्ट्रे सर्वप्रत्ययहेतवे असता च्छाययोक्ताय सदाभासाय ते नमः

sarvendriyaguṇadraṣṭre sarvapratyayahetave asatā cchāyayoktāya sadābhāsāya te namaḥ

To the seer of the qualities of all the senses, to the cause of every cognition, to him who is indicated by the unreal shadow (of matter), to you, the semblance of being — homage.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

SB 8 3.15

नमो नमस्ते ऽखिलकारणाय निष्कारणायाद्भुतकारणाय सर्वागमाम्नायमहार्णवाय नमो ऽपवर्गाय परायणाय

namo namaste 'khilakāraṇāya niṣkāraṇāyādbhutakāraṇāya sarvāgamāmnāyamahārṇavāya namo 'pavargāya parāyaṇāya

Homage, homage to you, the cause of all, yourself without a cause, the wondrous cause; the great ocean of all scriptures and Vedic traditions; homage to you who are liberation, the supreme resort.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

SB 8 3.16

गुणारणिच्छन्नचिदुष्मपाय तत्क्षोभविस्फूर्जितमानसाय नैष्कर्म्यभावेन विवर्जितागम स्वयंप्रकाशाय नमस् करोमि

guṇāraṇicchannaciduṣmapāya tatkṣobhavisphūrjitamānasāya naiṣkarmyabhāvena vivarjitāgama svayaṃprakāśāya namas karomi

To him who drinks up the heat of consciousness hidden within the firesticks of the qualities, whose mind blazes forth from the churning of them, to the self-luminous one I make obeisance — through the attitude of freedom from action, O you who have set the scriptures aside.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

SB 8 3.17

मादृक् प्रपन्नपशुपाशविमोक्षणाय मुक्ताय भूरिकरुणाय नमो ऽलयाय स्वांशेन सर्वतनुभृन्मनसि प्रतीत प्रत्यग्दृशे भगवते बृहते नमस्ते

mādṛk prapannapaśupāśavimokṣaṇāya muktāya bhūrikaruṇāya namo 'layāya svāṃśena sarvatanubhṛnmanasi pratīta pratyagdṛśe bhagavate bṛhate namaste

Homage to him who releases the noose from beast-like surrendered ones such as myself, to the free one, to him of abundant compassion, to him who is never inert; homage to you, the great Lord, the inward-turned vision, who by your own portion are present in the mind of every bearer of a body.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

SB 8 3.18

आत्मात्मजाप्तगृहवित्तजनेषु सक्तैर् दुष्प्रापणाय गुणसङ्गविवर्जिताय मुक्तात्मभिः स्वहृदये परिभाविताय ज्ञानात्मने भगवते नम ईश्वराय

ātmātmajāptagṛhavittajaneṣu saktair duṣprāpaṇāya guṇasaṅgavivarjitāya muktātmabhiḥ svahṛdaye paribhāvitāya jñānātmane bhagavate nama īśvarāya

Homage to the Lord, the ruler, whose very self is knowledge, who is hard to reach for those attached to body, children, kin, home, wealth and people, who is free of contact with the qualities, and who is contemplated in their own heart by liberated souls.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

SB 8 3.19

यं धर्मकामार्थविमुक्तिकामा भजन्त इष्टां गतिमाप्नुवन्ति किं चाशिषो रात्य् अपि देहमव्ययं करोतु मे ऽदभ्रदयो विमोक्षणम्

yaṃ dharmakāmārthavimuktikāmā bhajanta iṣṭāṃ gatimāpnuvanti kiṃ cāśiṣo rāty api dehamavyayaṃ karotu me 'dabhradayo vimokṣaṇam

Whom those desiring dharma, pleasure, wealth or liberation worship and (thereby) attain the goal they wish; and what is more, he bestows blessings, even an imperishable body — may he whose compassion is not scant work my release.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

SB 8 3.20

एकान्तिनो यस्य न कञ्चनार्थं वाञ्छन्ति ये वै भगवत्प्रपन्नाः अत्यद्भुतं तच्चरितं सुमङ्गलं गायन्त आनन्दसमुद्रमग्नाः

ekāntino yasya na kañcanārthaṃ vāñchanti ye vai bhagavatprapannāḥ atyadbhutaṃ taccaritaṃ sumaṅgalaṃ gāyanta ānandasamudramagnāḥ

Whose single-minded devotees, they who are surrendered to the Lord, desire no object whatever, but sing that most wondrous and highly auspicious career of his, plunged in an ocean of bliss.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

SB 8 3.21

तमक्षरं ब्रह्म परं परेशम् अव्यक्तमाध्यात्मिकयोगगम्यम् अतीन्द्रियं सूक्ष्ममिवातिदूरम् अनन्तमाद्यं परिपूर्णमीडे

tamakṣaraṃ brahma paraṃ pareśam avyaktamādhyātmikayogagamyam atīndriyaṃ sūkṣmamivātidūram anantamādyaṃ paripūrṇamīḍe

Him I praise — the imperishable Brahman, the supreme, the Lord of the highest, the unmanifest, to be reached by the yoga that turns within, beyond the senses, subtle as it were, exceedingly far off, endless, the first, wholly complete.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

SB 8 3.22

यस्य ब्रह्मादयो देवा वेदा लोकाश्चराचराः नामरूपविभेदेन फल्ग्व्या च कलया कृताः

yasya brahmādayo devā vedā lokāścarācarāḥ nāmarūpavibhedena phalgvyā ca kalayā kṛtāḥ

By whom Brahmā and the other gods, the Vedas, and the worlds with their moving and unmoving beings were made, by the differentiation of name and form, and by a mere slight fraction (of himself).

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

SB 8 3.23

यथार्चिषो ऽग्नेः सवितुर्गभस्तयो निर्यान्ति संयान्त्य् असकृत् स्वरोचिषः तथा यतो ऽयं गुणसम्प्रवाहो बुद्धिर्मनः खानि शरीरसर्गाः

yathārciṣo 'gneḥ saviturgabhastayo niryānti saṃyānty asakṛt svarociṣaḥ tathā yato 'yaṃ guṇasampravāho buddhirmanaḥ khāni śarīrasargāḥ

As the flames of fire and the rays of the sun, shining by their own light, go forth and return again and again, so from him (comes forth) this flood of the qualities — intelligence, mind, the senses, and the productions of the body.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

SB 8 3.24

स वै न देवासुरमर्त्यतिर्यङ् न स्त्री न षण्ढो न पुमान् न जन्तुः नायं गुणः कर्म न सन् न चासन् निषेधशेषो जयतादशेषः

sa vai na devāsuramartyatiryaṅ na strī na ṣaṇḍho na pumān na jantuḥ nāyaṃ guṇaḥ karma na san na cāsan niṣedhaśeṣo jayatādaśeṣaḥ

He indeed is not god, demon, mortal or beast; not woman, not eunuch, not man, not creature; he is not quality, not action, not being nor non-being: he is the remainder left when all is negated — may he, in whom nothing is lacking, prevail.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

SB 8 3.25

जिजीविषे नाहमिहामुया किम् अन्तर्बहिश्चावृतयेभयोन्या इच्छामि कालेन न यस्य विप्लवस् तस्यात्मलोकावरणस्य मोक्षम्

jijīviṣe nāhamihāmuyā kim antarbahiścāvṛtayebhayonyā icchāmi kālena na yasya viplavas tasyātmalokāvaraṇasya mokṣam

I have no wish to live on here by this (body) — what is it worth? — covered within and without by an elephant's birth; I desire release from that which veils the self, a veil that is not broken by the passage of time.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

SB 8 3.26

सो ऽहं विश्वसृजं विश्वमविश्वं विश्ववेदसम् विश्वात्मानमजं ब्रह्म प्रणतो ऽस्मि परं पदम्

so 'haṃ viśvasṛjaṃ viśvamaviśvaṃ viśvavedasam viśvātmānamajaṃ brahma praṇato 'smi paraṃ padam

So I, for my part, bow down to the maker of the universe, who is the universe and yet not the universe, whose wealth is the universe, the Self of the universe, the unborn Brahman, the supreme abode.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

SB 8 3.27

योगरन्धितकर्माणो हृदि योगविभाविते योगिनो यं प्रपश्यन्ति योगेशं तं नतो ऽस्म्य् अहम्

yogarandhitakarmāṇo hṛdi yogavibhāvite yogino yaṃ prapaśyanti yogeśaṃ taṃ nato 'smy aham

Whom the yogins, their karma burnt away by yoga, behold in the heart made luminous by yoga — to him, the Lord of yoga, I have bowed.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

SB 8 3.28

नमो नमस्तुभ्यमसह्यवेग शक्तित्रयायाखिलधीगुणाय प्रपन्नपालाय दुरन्तशक्तये कदिन्द्रियाणामनवाप्यवर्त्मने

namo namastubhyamasahyavega śaktitrayāyākhiladhīguṇāya prapannapālāya durantaśaktaye kadindriyāṇāmanavāpyavartmane

Homage, homage to you, whose onrush cannot be withstood, who possess the three powers, who are the object of every intellect and sense, protector of those who have surrendered, whose power has no end, whose path cannot be reached by those of unruly senses.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

SB 8 3.29

नायं वेद स्वमात्मानं यच्छक्त्याहंधिया हतम् तं दुरत्ययमाहात्म्यं भगवन्तमितो ऽस्म्य् अहम्

nāyaṃ veda svamātmānaṃ yacchaktyāhaṃdhiyā hatam taṃ duratyayamāhātmyaṃ bhagavantamito 'smy aham

This (living being) does not know its own self, struck down as it is by the notion of "I" through His power; to that Lord, whose greatness cannot be crossed over, I have come.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

SB 8 3.30

श्रीशुक उवाच एवं गजेन्द्रमुपवर्णितनिर्विशेषं ब्रह्मादयो विविधलिङ्गभिदाभिमानाः एवं गजेन्द्रमुपवर्णितनिर्विशेषं ब्रह्मादयो विविधलिङ्गभिदाभिमानाः नैते यदोपससृपुर्निखिलात्मकत्वात् तत्राखिलामरमयो हरिराविरासीत्

śrīśuka uvāca evaṃ gajendramupavarṇitanirviśeṣaṃ brahmādayo vividhaliṅgabhidābhimānāḥ evaṃ gajendramupavarṇitanirviśeṣaṃ brahmādayo vividhaliṅgabhidābhimānāḥ naite yadopasasṛpurnikhilātmakatvāt tatrākhilāmaramayo harirāvirāsīt

Śrī Śuka said: When the elephant king had thus described (the Lord) as devoid of distinctions, Brahmā and the others, who identify themselves with various separate marks (of divinity), did not come near — but there Hari, comprising all the gods, since He is the Self of all, became manifest.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

SB 8 3.31

तं तद्वदार्तमुपलभ्य जगन्निवासः स्तोत्रं निशम्य दिविजैः सह संस्तुवद्भिः तं तद्वदार्तमुपलभ्य जगन्निवासः स्तोत्रं निशम्य दिविजैः सह संस्तुवद्भिः छन्दोमयेन गरुडेन समुह्यमानश् चक्रायुधो ऽभ्यगमदाशु यतो गजेन्द्रः

taṃ tadvadārtamupalabhya jagannivāsaḥ stotraṃ niśamya divijaiḥ saha saṃstuvadbhiḥ taṃ tadvadārtamupalabhya jagannivāsaḥ stotraṃ niśamya divijaiḥ saha saṃstuvadbhiḥ chandomayena garuḍena samuhyamānaś cakrāyudho 'bhyagamadāśu yato gajendraḥ

Perceiving him thus afflicted, and hearing his hymn, the dwelling-place of the worlds, together with the celestials who were praising Him, borne by Garuḍa who is made of the (Vedic) meters, bearing the discus as His weapon, swiftly went to where the elephant king was.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

SB 8 3.32

सो ऽन्तःसरस्य् उरुबलेन गृहीत आर्तो दृष्ट्वा गरुत्मति हरिं ख उपात्तचक्रम् सो ऽन्तःसरस्य् उरुबलेन गृहीत आर्तो दृष्ट्वा गरुत्मति हरिं ख उपात्तचक्रम् उत्क्षिप्य साम्बुजकरं गिरमाह कृच्छ्रान् नारायणाखिलगुरो भगवन् नमस्ते

so 'ntaḥsarasy urubalena gṛhīta ārto dṛṣṭvā garutmati hariṃ kha upāttacakram so 'ntaḥsarasy urubalena gṛhīta ārto dṛṣṭvā garutmati hariṃ kha upāttacakram utkṣipya sāmbujakaraṃ giramāha kṛcchrān nārāyaṇākhilaguro bhagavan namaste

He, seized within the lake by (the crocodile's) great strength, afflicted, seeing Hari in the sky upon Garuḍa with His discus taken up, raised his trunk holding a lotus and with difficulty uttered these words: "Nārāyaṇa, teacher of all, O Lord, homage to you!"

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

SB 8 3.33

तं वीक्ष्य पीडितमजः सहसावतीर्य सग्राहमाशु सरसः कृपयोज्जहार तं वीक्ष्य पीडितमजः सहसावतीर्य सग्राहमाशु सरसः कृपयोज्जहार ग्राहाद्विपाटितमुखादरिणा गजेन्द्रं संपश्यतां हरिरमूमुचदुच्छ्रियाणाम्

taṃ vīkṣya pīḍitamajaḥ sahasāvatīrya sagrāhamāśu sarasaḥ kṛpayojjahāra taṃ vīkṣya pīḍitamajaḥ sahasāvatīrya sagrāhamāśu sarasaḥ kṛpayojjahāra grāhādvipāṭitamukhādariṇā gajendraṃ saṃpaśyatāṃ hariramūmucaducchriyāṇām

Seeing him tormented, the Unborn One at once descended and swiftly lifted him, together with the crocodile, out of the lake out of compassion; and having split open the crocodile's mouth with His discus, Hari released the elephant king, while the exalted ones looked on.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition