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Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.2.25
munibhir nāradādibhih
SYNONYMS
brahmā — the supreme four-headed demigod; bhavah ca — and Lord Śiva; tatra — there; etya — arriving; munibhih — accompanied by great sages; nārada-ādibhih — by Nārada and others; devaih — and by demigods like Indra, Candra and Varuna; sa-anucaraih — with their followers; sākam — all together; gīrbhih — by their transcendental prayers; vrishanam — the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who can bestow blessings upon everyone; aidayan — pleased.
TRANSLATION
Lord Brahmā and Lord Śiva, accompanied by great sages like Nārada, Devala and Vyāsa and by other demigods like Indra, Candra and Varuna, invisibly approached the room of Devakī, where they all joined in offering their respectful obeisances and prayers to please the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who can bestow blessings upon everyone.
PURPORT
Dvau bhūta-sargau loke 'smin daiva āsura eva ca (Padma Purāna). There are two classes of men — the daivas and the asuras — and there is a great difference between them. Kamsa, being an asura, was always planning how to kill the Supreme Personality of Godhead or His mother, Devakī. Thus he was also Krishna conscious. But devotees are Krishna conscious favorably (vishnu-bhaktah smrito daivah). Brahmā is so powerful that he is in charge of creating an entire universe, yet he personally came to receive the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Bhava, Lord Śiva, is always jubilant in chanting the holy name of the Lord. And what to speak of Nārada? Nārada-muni, bājāya vīnā, rādhikā-ramana-nāme. Nārada Muni is always chanting the glories of the Lord, and his engagement is to travel all over the universe and find a devotee or make someone a devotee. Even a hunter was made a devotee by the grace of Nārada. Śrīla Sanātana Gosvāmī, in his Toshanī, says that the word nārada-ādibhih means that Nārada and the demigods were accompanied by other saintly persons, like Sanaka and Sanātana, all of whom came to congratulate or welcome the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Even though Kamsa was planning to kill Devakī, he too awaited the arrival of the Supreme Personality of Godhead (pratīkshams taj janma).
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