Shloka 25

Brāhmaṇa-pūjā, Haviḥ-dāna, and the Vāsudeva–Pṛthivī Saṃvāda

Chapter 34

Devanagari script

नित्यमेतान्‌ नमस्यामि कृष्ण लोककरानृषीन्‌ । लोकज्येष्ठान्‌ कुलज्येष्ठांस्तमोघ्नाललोकभास्करान्‌

Transliteration

nityam etān namasyāmi kṛṣṇa lokakarān ṛṣīn | lokajyeṣṭhān kulajyeṣṭhāṁs tamo-ghnān loka-bhāskarān || śrīkṛṣṇa |

Translation

Nārada disse: “Ó Śrī Kṛṣṇa, eu sempre inclino a cabeça em reverência diante daqueles sábios que são artífices e sustentadores do mundo—os primeiros entre os anciãos do mundo, os primeiros em nobre linhagem—que destroem as trevas da ignorância e, como o sol, derramam a luz do conhecimento sobre todos os seres.”

Word by Word

• [{'term': 'nityam', 'definition': 'always, continually'}, {'term': 'etān', 'definition': 'these (persons)'}, {'term': 'namasyāmi', 'definition': 'I bow to, I salute with reverence'}, {'term': 'kṛṣṇa', 'definition': 'Kṛṣṇa (vocative address)'}, {'term': 'lokakarān', 'definition': 'world-makers

• those who bring about/benefit the world (loka + kara)'}, {'term': 'ṛṣīn', 'definition': 'seers, sages'}, {'term': 'lokajyeṣṭhān', 'definition': 'eldest/foremost in the world

• most venerable'}, {'term': 'kulajyeṣṭhān', 'definition': 'foremost in lineage

• best of their family/clan'}, {'term': 'tamo-ghnān', 'definition': 'destroyers of darkness (tamas = darkness/ignorance

• ghnā = slaying)'}, {'term': 'loka-bhāskarān', 'definition': 'sun of the world

• those who illumine the world (bhāskara = sun)'}, {'term': 'śrīkṛṣṇa', 'definition': 'Śrī Kṛṣṇa

Speaker

नारद उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Nārada
• Kṛṣṇa
• ṛṣis (sages)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

True spiritual authority is recognized by its power to dispel ignorance and illuminate dharma; therefore, the wise cultivate humility and constant reverence toward such sages, seeing them as benefactors of the world.

What is happening in the narrative?

Nārada addresses Śrī Kṛṣṇa and offers a formal salutation to the ṛṣis, praising them as world-benefactors and as sources of knowledge-light that destroys the darkness of delusion.