Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.25.20
यदृच्छयागतां तत्र ददर्श प्रमदोत्तमाम् ।
भृत्यैर्दशभिरायान्तीमेकैकशतनायकै: ॥ २० ॥
yadṛcchayāgatāṁ tatra
[yadrichchayaagataam tatra]
dadarśa pramadottamām
[dadarsha pramadottamaam]
bhṛtyair daśabhir āyāntīm
[bhrityair dashabhir aayaanteem]
ekaika-śata-nāyakaiḥ
[ekaika-shata-naayakaih]
Word-for-word
yadṛcchayā
—
all of a sudden, without engagement
āgatām
—
arrived
tatra
—
there
dadarśa
—
he saw
pramadā
—
one woman
uttamām
—
very beautiful
bhṛtyaiḥ
—
surrounded by servants
daśabhiḥ
—
ten
āyāntīm
—
coming forward
eka-eka
—
each one of them
śata
—
of hundreds
nāyakaiḥ
—
the leaders.
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
yadṛcchayāgatāṁ tatra
yadṛcchayā
all of a sudden, without engagement
āgatām
arrived
tatra
there
dadarśa pramadottamām
dadarśa
he saw
pramadā
one woman
uttamām
very beautiful
bhṛtyair daśabhir āyāntīm
bhṛtyaiḥ
surrounded by servants
daśabhiḥ
ten
āyāntīm
coming forward
ekaika-śata-nāyakaiḥ
eka-eka
each one of them
śata
of hundreds
nāyakaiḥ
the leaders.
While wandering here and there in that wonderful garden, King Purañjana suddenly came in contact with a very beautiful woman who was walking there without any engagement. She had ten servants with her, and each servant had hundreds of wives accompanying him.
Purport
The body has already been compared to a beautiful garden. During youth the sex impulse is awakened, and the intelligence, according to one’s imagination, is prone to contact the opposite sex. In youth a man or woman is in search of the opposite sex by intelligence or imagination, if not directly. The intelligence influences the mind, and the mind controls the ten senses. Five of these senses gather knowledge, and five work directly. Each sense has many desires to be fulfilled. This is the position of the body and the owner of the body, purañjana, who is within the body.
— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
Gauḍīya Ācāryas
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura
Gauḍīya
Translation
In that place, he saw a very beautiful woman who had arrived on her own with ten servants, each with unlimited courtesans.
The King saw a beautiful woman who arrived on her own. That is the intelligence, functioning with ignorance. This means that the initial relationship of jīva with intelligence arises without cause.
In terms of the story this may be said. “O King! Someone like you should never bring a beautiful woman into the grove. If you by accident meet, see or touch her, you will be condemned.” In terms of the soul, the intelligence should not be exposed to enjoyable objects like sound and touch. If by accident one contacts them, one should repent. This rule is suggested.
What are the sense objects? There were beautiful trees, or various forms. There were the calls of birds, or various attractive sounds. The trees had branches moving in the spring breeze, filled with water drops from water falls, growing abundantly on banks of lakes with lotuses. The cool water is the sense of taste and the spring breeze is smell. The breeze is touch. The description of the branches moving in the breeze shows the variety of the five sense objects available, since with the branch, birds, flowers, fruit, wind and water necessarily exist. The forest was without violent animals (anāvādhe), and endowed with non-violent animals (muni-vrtaiḥ). Because the Kind had accrued pious results and had no sinful reactions, his enjoyment was not troubled by obstacles. It seemed that the cuckoos warbling were inviting a guest to relax there. This means that, in the body, the person divides up his enjoyment and offers it to family members, friends and brāhmaṇa guests. He beckons them with his fame (for wealth). The ten servants are the knowledge and action senses. Each sense has infinite actions or courtesans. Another version has nāyikaiḥ, which would mean female attendants.
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Personal Guidance
He met a beautiful woman wandering with ten servants, each with hundreds of wives. Intelligence walks with the ten senses, each commanding many sub-functions; recognize the entourage.
Reflection Questions
- Whose 'entourage' am I underestimating as I form a relationship?
- What does it mean that intelligence comes with this whole staff?
My note
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