Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Srimad Bhagavatam 10.69.30

dhyayantam ekam asinam

purusham prakriteh param

susrushantam gurun kvapi

kamair bhogaih saparyaya

SYNONYMS

dhyayantam -- meditating; ekam -- alone; asinam -- sitting; purusham -- on the Supreme Personality of Godhead; prakriteh -- to material nature; param -- transcendental; susrushantam -- rendering menial service; gurun -- to His elders; kva api -- somewhere; kamaih -- desirable; bhogaih -- with objects of enjoyment; saparyaya -- and with worship.

TRANSLATION

Somewhere He was sitting alone, meditating on the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is transcendental to material nature, and somewhere He was rendering menial service to His elders, offering them desirable things and reverential worship.

PURPORT

Srila Prabhupada comments, "Meditation, as recommended in authorized scripture, is meant for concentrating one's mind on the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vishnu. Lord Krishna is Himself the original Vishnu, but because He played the part of a human being, He taught us definitely by His personal behavior what is meant by meditation."

This activity of meditation indicates the brahma-muhurta, the early morning hours before sunrise.

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