SMB X NARAYAN STUTI BY PRITHU

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Yes 🌸 — in the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam (SMB), King Pṛthu Mahārāja offers a very important Nārāyaṇa Stuti after Lord Viṣṇu personally appears before him.

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📖 Context

• Found in Canto 4, Chapter 20 (SB 4.20.1–24).

• After performing a hundred YAJNAS , King Pṛthu, an empowered incarnation (śaktyāveśa avatāra) of the Lord, was visited by Lord Viṣṇu (Nārāyaṇa), who descended with His associates.

• Overwhelmed with devotion, Pṛthu offers heartfelt prayers (stuti) to glorify the Lord and establish bhakti as the highest aim of life.

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🌼 Highlights of Pṛthu’s Nārāyaṇa Stuti

1. Acknowledgment of the Lord’s Transcendence (SB 4.20.7–9):
   Pṛthu glorifies the Lord as beyond birth and death, the source of everything, untouched by māyā.

2. Personal Helplessness (SB 4.20.11):
   He admits that the Lord cannot be reached by eloquence, intellect, or wealth — only by devotion.

3. Central Prayer (SB 4.20.24):

   “My dear Lord, I do not want liberation or any material opulence. I only want to be engaged in Your service, birth after birth, so that my mind may always be absorbed in Your lotus feet.”

4. Bhakti as the Goal:
   Pṛthu emphasizes that bhakti (devotion) is superior to dharma, artha, kāma, and mokṣa.

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🌺 Example Verse

Sanskrit (SB 4.20.24):
न कामये नाथ तदप्सरोगणां
स्वर्गापवर्गं वा न रसाधिपत्यं ।
आपद्यमानं तु भवान्ममास्तु
सदा हृदीśान्वितयाः स्मृतये ॥

IAST:
na kāmaye nātha tad-apsarogaṇāṁ
svargāpavargaṁ vā na rasādhipatyam ।
āpadyamānaṁ tu bhavān mamāstu
sadā hṛdīśānvitayāḥ smṛtaye ॥

Meaning:
“O Lord, I do not desire the company of the celestial apsarās, nor rulership over the earthly realms, nor even liberation. I only desire that You remain always in my heart so that I may remember You constantly.”

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✨ Significance

• Pṛthu’s stuti is one of the purest examples of bhakti in the Bhāgavatam — rejecting even mokṣa in favor of eternal remembrance of the Lord.

• It shows how a ruler, despite worldly power, recognizes that devotional service to Nārāyaṇa is the highest achievement.

• Often cited in Vaiṣṇava philosophy as proof that bhakti is beyond liberation.

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📖 So, the Nārāyaṇa Stuti by King Pṛthu is Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.20 (verses 7–24).

Would you like me to compile all of these verses (Sanskrit + English meaning) into one clean sequence so you can read the full stuti without needing to jump around chapters?