Bhagavad Gita -Srila Prabhupada 465

Shrimad Bhagavad Gita As It Is -Shri Shrimad A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

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The Opulence of the Absolute
Chapter 10: Verse-34

mrtyuh sarva-haras cäham udbhavas ca bhavisyatäm
kirtih srir väk ca närinäm smrtir medhä dhrtih ksamä [1]

TRANSLATION

I am all-devouring death, and I am the generating principle of all that is yet to be. Among women I am fame, fortune, fine speech, memory, intelligence, steadfastness and patience.


PURPORT

As soon as a man is born, he dies at every moment. Thus death is devouring every living entity at every moment, but the last stroke is called death itself. That death is Krsna. As for future development, all living entities undergo six basic changes. They are born, they grow, they remain for some time, they reproduce, they dwindle, and finally they vanish. Of these changes, the first is deliverance from the womb, and that is Krsna. The first generation is the beginning of all future activities. The seven opulences listed—fame, fortune, fine speech, memory, intelligence, steadfastness and patience—are considered feminine. If a person possesses all of them or some of them he becomes glorious. If a man is famous as a righteous man, that makes him glorious. Sanskrit is a perfect language and is therefore very glorious. If after studying one can remember a subject matter, he is gifted with a good memory, or smrti. And the ability not only to read many books on different subject matters but to understand them and apply them when necessary is intelligence [2], another opulence. The ability to overcome unsteadiness is called firmness or steadfastness [3]. And when one is fully qualified yet is humble and gentle, and when one is able to keep his balance both in sorrow and in the ecstasy of joy, he has the opulence called patience [4]





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References

  1. mrtyuh=death; sarva-harah=all-devouring; ca=also; aham=I am;
    udbhavah=generation; ca=also; bhavisyatäm=of future manifestations; kirtih=fame; srih=opulence or beauty; väk=fine speech; ca=also;
    närinäm=of women; smrtih=memory; medhä=intelligence; dhrtih=firmness; ksamä=patience.
  2. medhä
  3. dhrti
  4. ksamä

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