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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.3.35

यदि दास्यस्यभिमतान् वरान्मे वरदोत्तम । भूतेभ्यस्त्वद्विसृष्टेभ्यो मृत्युर्मा भून्मम प्रभो ॥ ३५ ॥
yadi dāsyasy abhimatān
[yadi daasyasy abhimataan]
varān me varadottama
[varaan me varadottama]
bhūtebhyas tvad-visṛṣṭebhyo
[bhootebhyas tvad-visrishtebhyo]
mṛtyur mā bhūn mama prabho
[mrityur maa bhoon mama prabho]
Word-for-word
yadi — if dāsyasi — you will give abhimatān — the desired varān — benedictions me — unto me varada-uttama — O best of all benedictors bhūtebhyaḥ — from living entities tvat — by you visṛṣṭebhyaḥ — who are created mṛtyuḥ — death mā — not bhūt — let there be mama — my prabho — O my lord.
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
yadi dāsyasy abhimatān
yadi
if
dāsyasi
you will give
abhimatān
the desired
varān me varadottama
varān
benedictions
me
unto me
varada-uttama
O best of all benedictors
bhūtebhyas tvad-visṛṣṭebhyo
bhūtebhyaḥ
from living entities
tvat
by you
visṛṣṭebhyaḥ
who are created
mṛtyur mā bhūn mama prabho
mṛtyuḥ
death
mā
not
bhūt
let there be
mama
my
prabho
O my lord.
O my lord, O best of the givers of benediction, if you will kindly grant me the benediction I desire, please let me not meet death from any of the living entities created by you.
Purport

After being created from the navel of Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu, Lord Brahmā, the original created living being within the universe, created many other different types of living entities to reside in this universe. Therefore, from the beginning of creation, the living entities were born of a superior living entity. Ultimately, Kṛṣṇa is the supreme living being, the father of all others. Ahaṁ bīja-pradaḥ pitā: He is the seed-giving father of all living entities.

Thus far, Hiraṇyakaśipu has adored Lord Brahmā as the Supreme Personality of Godhead and has expected to become immortal by the benediction of Lord Brahmā. Now, however, having come to understand that even Lord Brahmā is not immortal because at the end of the millennium Lord Brahmā will also die, Hiraṇyakaśipu is very carefully asking him for benedictions that will be almost as good as immortality. His first proposal is that he not be killed by any of the different forms of living entities created by Lord Brahmā within this material world.

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
Gauḍīya Ācāryas
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya
Translation
O my lord! O best of the givers of benediction! If you will kindly grant me the benediction that I desire, then please let me not die from any of the living entities created by you. “Enough of glorification! Please accept a boon.” Hiraṇyakaśipu thought, “If I ask to be immortal, it will be impossible to fulfill, since, he wills say that he also will die at the end of the mahākalpa. Thus he will refuse m request. Therefore, by intelligence, I will ask for boon that will result in me being immortal. Let me not die from all beings created by Brahmā. Who else is there?”
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Personal Guidance
Hiraṇyakaśipu finally states his wish: do not let me be killed by any living entity you have created. He seeks immortality through technicality — exploiting a loophole in mortality. The demoniac mind always thinks it can find an exception to the laws of being.
Reflection Questions
  • Where are you currently seeking an 'exception' to a law everyone else lives under?
  • What spiritual law have you been quietly negotiating with instead of accepting?
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