SB 9.23.26 — FolioCorpus

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 9.23.26

पञ्चाशीतिसहस्राणि ह्यव्याहतबल: समा: । अनष्टवित्तस्मरणो बुभुजेऽक्षय्यषड्‍वसु ॥ २६ ॥

pañcāśīti sahasrāṇi

[panchaasheeti sahasraani]

hy avyāhata-balaḥ samāḥ

[hy avyaahata-balah samaah]

anaṣṭa-vitta-smaraṇo

[anashta-vitta-smarano]

bubhuje ’kṣayya-ṣaḍ-vasu

[bubhuje ’kshayya-shad-vasu]

Word-for-word

pañcāśīti — eighty-five sahasrāṇi — thousands hi — indeed avyāhata — inexhaustible balaḥ — the strength of whom samāḥ — years anaṣṭa — without deterioration vitta — material opulences smaraṇaḥ — and memory bubhuje — enjoyed akṣayya — without deterioration ṣaṭ-vasu — six kinds of enjoyable material opulence.

Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)

pañcāśīti sahasrāṇi

pañcāśīti

eighty-five

sahasrāṇi

thousands

indeed

hy avyāhata-balaḥ samāḥ

avyāhata

inexhaustible

balaḥ

the strength of whom

samāḥ

years

anaṣṭa-vitta-smaraṇo

anaṣṭa

without deterioration

vitta

material opulences

smaraṇaḥ

and memory

bubhuje ’kṣayya-ṣaḍ-vasu

bubhuje

enjoyed

akṣayya

without deterioration

ṣaṭ-vasu

six kinds of enjoyable material opulence.

For eighty-five thousand years, Kārtavīryārjuna continuously enjoyed material opulences with full bodily strength and unimpaired memory. In other words, he enjoyed inexhaustible material opulences with his six senses.

Gauḍīya Ācāryas

Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya

Translation

For eighty-five thousand years, Kārtavīryārjuna, with inexhaustible strength, by memory of whom ones wealth becomes indestructible, enjoyed imperishable objects of the six senses. Anaṣṭa-vitta-smaraṇaḥ means “a person by remembering whom, ones wealth is not destroyed.” He enjoyed undecaying objects of the six senses.

Personal Guidance

For eighty-five thousand years he enjoys without loss of memory or strength. Even the longest possible enjoyment career, executed at full power, eventually meets its Paraśurāma — there is no exit from this arrangement via more duration.

Reflection Questions

Why would I imagine more duration of pleasure will solve what brief duration could not?
Where am I still asking for 'more time to enjoy' rather than for liberation from the loop?

📝 My note

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