SB 6.4.54

SB 6.4.54

Devanagari

श्रीशुक उवाच इत्युक्त्वा मिषतस्तस्य भगवान् विश्वभावन: । स्वप्नोपलब्धार्थ इव तत्रैवान्तर्दधे हरि: ॥ ५४ ॥

Verse text

śrī-śuka uvāca ity uktvā miṣatas tasya bhagavān viśva-bhāvanaḥ svapnopalabdhārtha iva tatraivāntardadhe hariḥ

Synonyms

śrī śukaḥ uvāca — Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued to speak ; iti thus ; uktvā saying ; miṣataḥ tasya while he (Dakṣa) was personally looking on ; bhagavān the Supreme Personality of Godhead ; viśva bhāvanaḥ — who creates the universal affairs ; svapna upalabdha — arthaḥ — an object obtained in dreaming ; iva like ; tatra there ; eva certainly ; antardadhe disappeared ; hariḥ the Lord, the Supreme Personality of Godhead .

Translation

Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: After the creator of the entire universe, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Hari, had spoken in this way in the presence of Prajāpati Dakṣa, He immediately disappeared as if He were an object experienced in a dream.

Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)

Śukadeva said: After speaking, the creator of the universe, like a figure in a dream, disappeared while Dakṣa looked on. Thus ends the commentary on the Fourth Chapter of the Sixth Canto of the Bhāgavatam for the pleasure of the devotees, in accordance with the previous ācāryas. Chapter Five Dakṣa Curses Nārada 6.5: Nārada Muni Cursed by Prajāpati Dakṣa 5. Nārada Muni Cursed by Prajāpati Dakṣa 6.5 Summary This chapter relates how all the sons of Dakṣa were delivered from the clutches of the material energy by following the advice of Nārada, who was therefore cursed by Dakṣa. Influenced by the external energy of Lord Viṣṇu, Prajāpati Dakṣa begot ten thousand sons in the womb of his wife, Pāṣcajanī. These sons, who were all of the same character and mentality, were known as the Haryaśvas. Ordered by their father to create more and more population, the Haryaśvas went west to the place where the river Sindhu (now the Indus) meets the Arabian Sea. In those days this was the site of a holy lake named Nārāyaṇa-saras, where there were many saintly persons. The Haryaśvas began practicing austerities, penances and meditation, which are the engagements of the highly exalted renounced order of life. However, when Śrīla Nārada Muni saw these boys engaged in such commendable austerities simply for material creation, he thought it better to release them from this tendency. Nārada Muni described to the boys their ultimate goal of life and advised them not to become ordinary karmīs to beget children. Thus all the sons of Dakṣa became enlightened and left, never to return. Prajāpati Dakṣa, who was very sad at the loss of his sons, begot one thousand more sons in the womb of his wife, Pāṣcajanī, and ordered them to increase progeny. These sons, who were named the Savalāśvas, also engaged in worshiping Lord Viṣṇu to beget children, but Nārada Muni convinced them to become mendicants and not beget children. Foiled twice in his attempts to increase population, Prajāpati Dakṣa became most angry at Nārada Muni and cursed him, saying that in the future he would not be able to stay anywhere. Since Nārada Muni, being fully qualified, was fixed in tolerance, he accepted Dakṣa's curse.

Purport

Thus end the Bhaktivedanta purports of the Sixth Canto, Fourth Chapter, of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, entitled “The Haṁsa-guhya Prayers Offered to the Lord by Prajāpati Dakṣa.”