Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.63.53
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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kṛṣṇa-vijayam
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Kṛṣṇa's victory
Compound: kṛṣṇa + vijaya (victory). Vijaya is one of Bhagavān's own names (cf. Sahasranāma). Gauḍīyas note: vijaya is not just an event Kṛṣṇa wins; it is something He IS. To remember His vijaya is to remember Him.
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saṁsmaret
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should remember well
Optative of sam-√smṛ. Saṁ- intensifies smaraṇa into 'remembering with completeness'. Gauḍīyas read the verb as prescribing not a thought-flash but the kind of sustained smaraṇa that is one of bhakti's nine limbs (BhP 7.5.23).
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prātaḥ utthāya
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having risen at dawn
Compound: prātaḥ (early morning) + utthāya (having arisen). The Vaiṣṇava's brāhma-muhūrta — the auspicious last quarter of night. Gauḍīyas treat early-rising smaraṇa as the chapter's prescribed sādhanā for inheriting the verse's protection.
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na
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no defeat
Compound: na (not) + parājaya (defeat). The phala — no defeat at all. Gauḍīyas read parājaya widely: not just battlefield loss but defeat by senses, by attachment, by māyā. The smaraṇa of this chapter prevents all such defeats.
Thus end the purports of the humble servants of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda to the Tenth Canto, Sixty-third Chapter, of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, entitled “Lord Kṛṣṇa Fights with Bāṇāsura.”
Krsna (sa) entered the city of Dvaraka.
Whoever remembers Kṛṣṇa’s victory over Bāṇa and his battle with Śiva will not experience defeat. Kṛṣṇa defeat of Bāṇa and defeating Śiva by making him yawning should not be surprising since just by remembering those incidents a person cannot be defeated by anyone. Whoever remembers with faith (sam--smaret) Kṛṣṇa’s defeat of Bāṇa and Śiva fighting with Kṛṣṇa in order to give benefit to Bāṇa will not be defeated. What to speak of hearing and glorifying the events. Simply getting up in the morning, without bathing, one can remember this incident. The person will not be defeated by internal or external obstacles to bhakti.
Whoever remembers Kṛṣṇa’s victory over Bāṇa and his battle with Śiva will not experience defeat. Kṛṣṇa’s defeat of Bāṇa and defeating Śiva by making him yawning should not be surprising. One who remembers the detailed victory of svayam bhagavān, including severing Bāṇa’s arms, and the battle with Śiva, including the yawning, will not experience defeat. The yawning is not specifically mentioned out of respect. The fight with Śiva was for the benefit of Bāṇa. Or the phrase describes the excellence of Kṛṣṇa’s victory: remembering of the fight even (ca) with Śiva, one will not have defeat. Just by remembrance, without kīrtana, one obtains the result. On rising from bed, even without purification, one obtains the result. One will not be defeated by external or internal causes, or by obstacles to bhakti. Thus end the purports of the humble servants of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda to the Tenth Canto, Sixty-third Chapter, of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, entitled "Lord Kṛṣṇa Fights with Bāṇāsura." 10.64: The Deliverance of King Nṛga verses: Summary, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14-15, 16, 17, 18, 19-20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27-28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37-38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44 Chapter Summary This chapter describes how Śrī Kṛṣṇa released King Nṛga from a curse and instructed the royal order on the great danger of taking a brāhmaṇa's property. One day Sāmba and other young boys of the Yādava dynasty went to the forest to play, and after playing for a long time they became very thirsty and began looking for water. Inside a dry well they found an amazing creature: a huge lizard resembling a hill. The boys felt sorry for it and tried to pull it out. But after several attempts with leather thongs and ropes, they saw that they would not be able to rescue the creature, and thus they went to Lord Kṛṣṇa and told Him what had happened. The Lord accompanied them to the well and, extending His left hand, easily lifted the lizard out. By the touch of Lord Kṛṣṇa's hand the creature transformed at once into a demigod. Then Lord Kṛṣṇa asked, "Who are you, and how did you assume such a lowly form? The divine being replied, "My name was King Nṛga, son of Ikṣvāku, and I was famous for giving charity. Indeed, I gave away countless cows to numerous brāhmaṇas. But on one occasion a cow belonging to a first-class brāhmaṇa wandered into my herd. Unaware of this, I gave this cow in charity to a different brāhmaṇa. When the cow's previous owner saw the second brāhmaṇa taking this cow away, the first brāhmaṇa claimed the cow as his and began arguing with the second brāhmaṇa. After quarreling for some time they approached me, and I implored them to each take one hundred thousand cows in exchange for that one cow, and to please forgive me for the offense I had unknowingly committed. But neither brāhmaṇa would accept my proposal, and the matter remained unsettled. "Shortly thereafter I died and was taken by the Yamadūtas to the court of Yamarāja. Yama asked me which I preferred to do first: suffer the results of my sins or enjoy the results of my pious acts. I decided to suffer my sinful reactions first, and thus I assumed the body of a lizard." After King Nṛga had told his story, he offered prayers to Lord Kṛṣṇa and then mounted a celestial airplane, which transported him to heaven. Lord Kṛṣṇa then instructed His personal associates, as well as the general mass of people, on the dangers of stealing a brāhmaṇa 's property. Finally, the Lord returned to His palace.
- What single phrase from this chapter could I carry into tomorrow morning's remembrance?
- How does claiming a daily 'shelter pastime' change the texture of my whole day?
Like a charm sealed inside the last verse, the Bhāgavatam tucks a phala-śruti at the chapter's end: anyone who rises early and remembers Kṛṣṇa's victory over Śaṅkara will never know defeat. Smaraṇa of this very chapter is itself a śakti — the conversation between Bhagavān and the Śiva-jvara (v. 29) extends now to the reader.
Caitanya-caritāmṛta records that Mahāprabhu would weep through every reading of the Bhāgavatam — not only the gopī chapters. Each victory of Kṛṣṇa was a fresh occasion for prema; even the cosmic battles were pretexts for the soul's rasa.
Gauḍīyas read this phala-śruti accordingly: remembering Kṛṣṇa's victory over Śaṅkara is not triumphalism over Śiva, but the bhakta's daily smaraṇa of the chapter's doctrinal verdict — Kṛṣṇa is supreme, and remembering it morning by morning is itself the path to undefeatedness.
My note
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