Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.3.23

Kalki Incarnation – Lord Destroys False Religions at End of Kali

📅 September 28, 1972 📍 Los Angeles ⏱ 39 min
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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.3.23 — September 28, 1972, Los Angeles 720928SB-LOS ANGELES [38:34 Minutes] SB-01.03.23_720928SB-LOS ANGELES Prabhupāda: [Govindam prayers playing; sings along] [leads singing of Jaya Rādhā-Mādhava] [prema-dhvani] Thank you very much.

Devotees: All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda. [devotees offer obeisances] [break] Pradyumna: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, First Canto, Chapter Three, text number 23.

[leads chanting of verse] [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat] ekonaviṁśe viṁśatime vṛṣṇiṣu prāpya janmanī rāma-kṛṣṇāv iti bhuvo bhagavān aharad bharam [SB 1.3.23] Prabhupāda: Ladies. [ladies chant] That's all right. Word meaning. Pradyumna: [leads chanting of synonyms] ekonaviṁśe—in the nineteenth; viṁśatime—in the twentieth also; vṛṣṇiṣu—in the Vṛṣṇi dynasty; prāpya—having obtained; janmanī—births; rāma—Balarāma; kṛṣṇau—Śrī Kṛṣṇa; iti—thus; bhuvaḥ—of the world; bhagavān—the Personality of Godhead; aharat—removed; bharam—burden.

[12:14] Translation: "In the nineteenth and twentieth incarnations, the Lord advented Himself as Lord Balarāma and Lord Kṛṣṇa in the family of Vṛṣṇi, or the Yadu dynasty, and by so doing He removed the burden of the world." Prabhupāda: So, ekonaviṁśe. Eka ūna. Ūna means less. Eka means one. And viṁśa means twenty.

So this is the way of Sanskrit literature: ekonaviṁśe, "less than one of twenty." That means nineteen. Ekonaviṁśe viṁśatime: and next, twentieth. So Balarāma first appeared, and then Kṛṣṇa appeared, ekonaviṁśe viṁśatime vṛṣṇiṣu: in the family of Vṛṣṇi, Vṛṣṇi dynasty. Kṛṣṇa's another name is Vārṣṇeya, because He appeared in the Vṛṣṇi family. Just like sandalwood.

Sandalwood is known as "Malayan sandalwood." Malaya. There is a country, you know, East Asia, Malaysia. Now it called Malaysia. So formerly they were growing sandalwood in large quantity.

Now they are growing rubber, no more sandalwood. They are not interested with the sandalwood. They are now interested in rubber wood. Because you have got motorcars, you require motor tires.

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