Canto 11: General HistoryChapter 29: Bhakti-yoga

Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 11.29.15

nareṣv abhīkṣṇaḿ mad-bhāvaḿ

puḿso bhāvayato 'cirāt

spardhāsūyā-tiraskārāḥ

sāhańkārā viyanti hi

SYNONYMS

nareṣuin all persons; abhīkṣṇam — constantly; mat-bhāvam — the personal presence of Me; puḿsaḥ — of the person; bhāvayataḥ — who is meditating upon; acirāt — quickly; spardhā — the tendency to feel rivalry (against equals); asūyā — envy (of superiors); tiraskārāḥ — and abuse (of inferiors); sa — along with; ahańkārāḥ — false ego; viyanti — they disappear; hi — indeed.

TRANSLATION

For him who constantly meditates upon My presence within all persons, the bad tendencies of rivalry, envy and abusiveness, along with false ego, are very quickly destroyed.

PURPORT

We conditioned souls tend to feel rivalry toward our equals, envy toward our superior, and the desire to belittle our subordinates. These contaminated propensities, along with their very basis, false ego, can be quickly vanquished by meditating upon the Supreme Personality of Godhead within every living being.

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