Srimad Bhagavat Mahapuran, if read with full faith, transforms the reader very quickly, and the reader receives its maximum benefit — which is developing pure love for the Supreme Lord Madhava. This is the conclusion of most of our revered scriptures.
The Brahma Purāṇa consists of ten thousand verses, the Padma Purāṇa of fifty-five thousand, Śrī Viṣṇu Purāṇa of twenty-three thousand, the Śiva Purāṇa of twenty-four thousand and Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam of eighteen thousand. The Nārada Purāṇa has twenty-five thousand verses, the Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa nine thousand, the Agni Purāṇa fifteen thousand four hundred, the Bhaviṣya Purāṇa fourteen thousand five hundred, the Brahma-vaivarta Purāṇa eighteen thousand and the Liṅga Purāṇa eleven thousand. The Varāha Purāṇa contains twenty-four thousand verses, the Skanda Purāṇa eighty-one thousand one hundred, the Vāmana Purāṇa ten thousand, the Kūrma Purāṇa seventeen thousand, the Matsya Purāṇa fourteen thousand, the Garuḍa Purāṇa nineteen thousand and the Brahmāṇḍa Purāṇa twelve thousand. Thus the total number of verses in all the Purāṇas is four hundred thousand. Eighteen thousand of these, once again, belong to the beautiful Bhāgavatam.
When a child is sick, sometimes parents need to give bitter syrup so that the child can be cured of the disease. But the child will often refuse the syrup because of its bitterness. The mother, who knows the heart of the child, will take that bitter syrup and nicely turn it into a sweet juice or smoothie. The child who earlier refused the syrup will now happily drink it, because it has become a drink of his own choice. The bitter medicine, actually so beneficial to the child, now enters the body easily as the sweet juice he desires. Similarly, the series of stories in Srimad Bhagavatam are like that sweet juice — very attractive and entertaining to the ear and mind of the reader — while the medicine-like instructions containing the Vedic principles are intertwined in the narrative of the story. As they enter the heart of the listener through the ear, they cleanse and purify the heart of the listener.
We sincerely wish that all of us read the Bhagavatam with the same great faith, love and dedication that our beloved Pandit Dr. Shri Kashinath Mishra has repeatedly asked of us, and let these stories cleanse our hearts and increase our love for our dear Lord.
Just by reading Srimad Bhagavat Mahapuran, a special place for the Lord is created in the reader's heart, because the Lord — in the form of Srimad Bhagavat Mahapuran — enters the heart and sweeps it clean of all contamination. We all know that the very same Lord, who is rarely understood even by great sages, who is the Lord of all movable and immovable entities, comes to sit in the heart of the sincere reader or listener of Srimad Bhagavat Mahapuran! All the sages and saintly people listen to it in rapt attention. Lord Shiva speaks Srimad Bhagavat Mahapuran to his wife Parvati. Sheshnag sings Srimad Bhagavat Mahapuran with his unlimited hoods. The four Kumaras — Sanaka, Sanandana, Sanatana and Sanat Kumara — also speak Srimad Bhagavat Mahapuran to glorify Lord Krishna, because every other spiritual and religious process fades before it.
The Lord Himself leaves His spiritual abode and comes down to the place where Srimad Bhagavat Mahapuran is being read (spoken), and sits down to carefully listen. As He Himself stated to Narada Muni:
nāhaṁ vasāmi vaikuṇṭhe yogināṁ hṛdaye na ca mad-bhaktā yatra gāyanti tatra tiṣṭhāmi nārada
"O Narada, I do not live in My spiritual abode, nor do I live in the hearts of great meditating yogis — but I live at the place where My devotees speak about My divine līlās."
The Vedas are compared to the desire tree, because they contain all things knowable by man — dealing with mundane necessities as well as spiritual realization. In Sanskrit, the parrot is also known as śuka. When a ripened fruit is cut by the beak of a parrot, its sweet flavour is enhanced. The Vedic fruit — already mature and ripe in knowledge — becomes even more relishable when spoken through the lips of Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī, who is compared to that very parrot.
There are unlimited benefits to reading Srimad Bhagavat Mahapuran katha. The prime result is that if a person reads attentively and applies the wisdom in their own life, they can attain pure love for Mahaprabhu. Because Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is completely free of contamination by the modes of nature, it is endowed with extraordinary spiritual beauty and is therefore dear to the pure devotees of the Lord. The word pāramahaṁsyam indicates that even completely liberated souls are eager to hear and narrate Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. Those who are trying to be liberated should faithfully serve this literature by hearing and reciting it with faith and devotion.
Chaitanya Mahāprabhu describes Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam as the spotless Purāṇa, because it contains transcendental narrations of the pastimes of the Supreme Lord. The history of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is also very glorious. Brahmā spoke it to the sage Nārada, who narrated it to Kṛṣṇa-dvaipāyana Vyāsa. Śrīla Vyāsa revealed this Bhāgavatam to the greatest of sages, Śukadeva Gosvāmī, and Śukadeva mercifully spoke it to Mahārāja Parīkṣit.
It was compiled by Vyāsadeva, who drew from his mature experience under the instruction of his spiritual master, Śrī Nārada Muni. Vyāsadeva compiled all the Vedic literatures — the four Vedas, the Vedānta-sūtra (Brahma-sūtras), the Purāṇas and the Mahābhārata — yet he was not satisfied until he wrote Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. His dissatisfaction was observed by his spiritual master, and Nārada advised him to write on the transcendental activities of the Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa. Śrī Kṛṣṇa's activities are specifically described in the Tenth Canto of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, the Canto considered to contain the substance of the whole work.
Just as the eternal nature of fire is to provide heat and light, the eternal dharma of a jīva (soul) is sevā to the Supreme Lord — and serving Srimad Bhagavatam, which is the literary incarnation of the Supreme Lord, by studying it attentively, is one such very important sevā.
This is why the Bhagavata Mahatmya depicts Bhakti Devi asking Nārada Muni for the welfare of her sons, Gyāna and Vairāgya, and Nārada Muni ultimately concludes that reciting the Bhāgavatam is the best remedy — for, as stated, only the Bhāgavatam can bring jñāna and vairāgya to the level necessary for the practice of pure bhakti.
Therefore, at the very heart of the Bhagavata Mahatmya's exaltation is Krishna's quintessential assertion: "Whatever appears to be of any value — up to and including jñāna and vairāgya — if it has no relation to Me, has no reality."
Mahārāja Parīkṣit was given seven days — he was cursed by a brāhmaṇa boy that he would die within seven days, bitten by a snake. Immediately, being emperor, he understood, "I shall have to die." So he prepared himself. For seven days he tried to understand his relationship with Kṛṣṇa, with God. That is imitated today as Bhāgavata-saptāha. But actually, the Bhāgavatam is not meant to be studied only by imitating Mahārāja Parīkṣit for seven days — no. In seven days we cannot understand even one verse of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, what to speak of its eighteen thousand verses. That is not possible. The Bhāgavatam says, nityaṁ bhāgavata-sevayā. The Panchasakha say, "Param shastra Bhagavata... abhyāsa karuthibu nitya…" — it is not for seven days; it is for all of life.
That is why Pandit Dr. Shri Kashinath Mishra has mercifully advised all of us to read at least one chapter from Srimad Bhagwat Mahapuran every day — and more so, to transcend the coming turbulent times, it is all the more important!
Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 2 Chapter 3: Worship of Deities and Devotion
Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 2 Chapter 3: Sukadeva's catalogue of deities worshipped for worldly desires, the teaching that the Supreme Person alone should be worshipped with devotion, and the chapter's famous verses on hearing the Lord's holy names.
A ring of demigods surrounds a radiant assembly, while a single devotee turns past them all toward the Supreme Person — the chapter’s central teaching in one image.
Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya.
Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya.
Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya.
Welcome to Srimad Bhagavatam Wisdom, a devotional journey through the sacred histories and teachings of the Srimad Bhagavat Mahapurana. Sukadeva Goswami now brings his long answer to King Parikshit’s original question to its close. Having taught, across the first two chapters, meditation on the Lord’s cosmic form and His intimate four-armed form in the heart, Sukadeva turns briefly to something almost like an index: which deity should be approached for which worldly desire. But the catalogue exists only to be set aside. Its entire purpose is to make one thing unmistakably clear — that whatever a person wants, or does not want, the wise soul worships the Supreme Person Himself. From there the chapter’s frame quietly shifts. The sage Saunaka, listening at Naimisharanya, asks the narrator Suta to continue Parikshit’s story, and what follows is among the most stirring passages in the entire Bhagavatam on the value of simply hearing, chanting, and remembering the Lord.
Chapter Information
Scripture: Śrīmad Bhāgavata Mahāpurāṇa
Canto: 2 (Book Two)
Chapter: 3 (Discourse 3)
Chapter title: Worship of different deities for the gratification of various desires and the superiority of Devotion to the Lord
Principal speaker: Sri Suka (Sukadeva Gosvami) for verses 1–12, concluding his discourse to Parikshit; then Saunaka and Suta Gosvami in the outer narrative frame for verses 13–25
Principal listener: King Parikshit (verses 1–12); the sage Saunaka and the assembly of sages at Naimisharanya (verses 13–25)
Main setting: the bank of the Ganga, where Parikshit sits fasting in his final days; and, in the outer frame, the forest hermitage of Naimisharanya where Suta Gosvami is narrating the whole Bhagavatam
Central subject: a catalogue of deities traditionally worshipped for specific worldly desires; the teaching that devotion to the Supreme Person is superior to and underlies all such worship; and a sequence of verses glorifying the hearing, chanting, and remembering of the Lord’s names and stories
Principal verse range: Canto 2, Chapter 3, verses 1–25
The chapter opens with a single, quiet sentence that ties off everything taught so far. “I have thus told you all you asked me,” Sukadeva says to Parikshit, “viz., what should men who are thoughtful among human beings do, when their end has arrived.” It is easy to read past this line, but it matters: it confirms that the meditation on the cosmic form (Chapter One) and the meditation on the Lord’s personal form together with the yogic technique of leaving the body (Chapter Two) were, together, Sukadeva’s complete answer to Parikshit’s dying question. What follows in this chapter is something new — not instruction for the moment of death, but a wider survey of worship as it is practised by human beings in general, and where that worship ultimately points.
A Catalogue of Desires and Their Deities
What follows is one of the most systematically structured passages in the early Bhagavatam — a rapid, almost rhythmic listing of desires paired with the deities traditionally worshipped to fulfil them. A seeker of pre-eminence in sacred knowledge should worship the sage Brihaspati, preceptor of the gods; one who seeks keenness of the senses should worship Indra; a seeker of progeny should propitiate the Prajapatis. The seeker of prosperity should worship the divine Maya — the Lord’s own potency, the Goddess presiding over Prakriti — while the seeker of indefatigable energy should adore the god of fire. A seeker of wealth should worship the Vasus; one who aspires to greater power should worship the Rudras.
The list continues, each verse gathering several pairings at once. A seeker of food should worship Aditi, mother of the gods; one who seeks heaven should adore her sons, the twelve Adityas. A seeker of sovereignty should worship the Vishvedevas; a ruler who wants the allegiance of his subjects should worship the Sadhyas. One who desires long life should worship the twin Ashvins, physicians of the gods; one who desires a strong body should worship the goddess Earth; one who wants stability of position should adore Earth and Dyauh together, the two mothers of the world. A seeker of personal charm should worship the Gandharvas; one who wants a lovely wife should adore the celestial nymph Urvashi; one who seeks lordship over all should worship Brahma himself.
A seeker of renown should worship Lord Vishnu in His aspect as the deity presiding over sacrifice; a seeker of treasures should adore Varuna, lord of the waters. One who wants to acquire learning should worship Lord Shiva; one who desires conjugal happiness should adore Goddess Uma, so devoted to her Lord. He who aspires to a pious life should worship Lord Vishnu of excellent renown; he who wants to propagate his lineage should adore the Pitris, the ancestral manes. A seeker of protection should worship the Yakshas; a seeker of bodily vigour should adore the Maruts, the wind-gods. He who seeks a kingdom should worship the ruling gods of a whole Manvantara; he who — for whatever dark purpose — wishes to employ malevolent spells should adore Nirriti, presiding over destruction. And the seeker of ordinary sense-gratification should worship Soma, the moon-god.
Then, at the very end of the list, Sukadeva places something different in kind: “he who longs for the cessation of all desires should adore the Lord who transcends Prakriti or Matter.” The entire catalogue, verse by verse, has been building toward this single quiet turn.
A great wheel of demigods, each approached for a different worldly desire — sacred knowledge, progeny, wealth, power, long life — as Sukadeva enumerates them one by one (verses 2-9).
A great wheel of demigods, each approached for a different worldly desire — sacred knowledge, progeny, wealth, power, long life — as Sukadeva enumerates them one by one (verses 2–9).
The Pivot: Worship the Supreme Person
Verse ten is the chapter’s thematic centre, and Sukadeva states it without qualification.
अकामः सर्वकामो वा मोक्षकाम उदारधीः ।
तीव्रेण भक्तियोगेन यजेत पुरुषं परम् ॥ १० ॥
Meaning: A wise man, however — whether he has no desire at all, or is actuated by every sort of desire, or seeks liberation itself — should worship the Supreme Person with intense devotion. (Canto 2, Chapter 3, verse 10)
Sukadeva does not say that worshipping the various deities is wrong. What he says is that the highest good — for those who worship Indra, Brihaspati, or any of the gods named above — is ultimately found only by developing unswerving devotion to the Lord Himself, and that this devotion ripens specifically through the fellowship of His devotees. It is in the company of such devotees, hearing discourses on Sri Hari, that spiritual enlightenment dawns — the restless waves of passion settle, the heart is purified and filled with joy, and a natural aversion arises for the pleasures of sense alongside a growing love for devotion, “which is an esteemed road to final beatitude.” Sukadeva ends this section with a rhetorical question rather than a command: having once tasted the joy of listening to such discourses on Sri Hari, who would ever willingly stop?
Turning past the many deities named for many desires, a devotee bows before the Supreme Person alone, embodying Sukadeva's teaching that intense devotion is the path for the desireless, the desirous, and the seeker of liberation alike (verse 10).
Turning past the many deities named for many desires, a devotee bows before the Supreme Person alone, embodying Sukadeva’s teaching that intense devotion is the path for the desireless, the desirous, and the seeker of liberation alike (verse 10).
Saunaka Asks for More
At this point the narrative frame shifts, and the shift is worth noticing rather than passing over. Everything so far in this chapter has been part of Sukadeva’s speech to the dying Parikshit on the bank of the Ganga. But the entire Bhagavatam is itself being narrated a second time — by Suta Gosvami, to the sage Saunaka and the assembled sages performing a long sacrifice in the forest of Naimisharanya. It is this outer audience that now speaks. Saunaka asks: on hearing these words of Suka, what else did King Parikshit — foremost of the Bharatas — go on to ask the son of Vyasa, who was both a seer and learned in the Vedas? And, Saunaka adds, please tell us, for in an assembly of holy men there ought always to be talk that leads, eventually, to discourse on Sri Hari.
Before Suta answers, though, the text lingers for a moment on why this conversation between Parikshit and Sukadeva was so fitting in the first place. Parikshit, we are told, was from his very childhood a great devotee of the Lord — even his childhood games included, as one of his sports, the worship of Sri Krishna. And Sukadeva himself is described as exclusively devoted to Lord Vasudeva. It is only natural, the text observes, that where two such souls meet, their conversation turns to the glories of the Lord.
At the forest hermitage of Naimisharanya, the sage Saunaka asks the narrator Suta Gosvami to continue the story of King Parikshit and Sukadeva Goswami (verses 13-14).
At the forest hermitage of Naimisharanya, the sage Saunaka asks the narrator Suta Gosvami to continue the story of King Parikshit and Sukadeva Goswami (verses 13–14).
Why Hearing the Lord’s Stories Is Not Optional
What follows next is one of the most direct and uncompromising passages anywhere in the Bhagavatam — a sequence of verses that measures a human life not by what it accomplishes, but by whether it has been spent in remembrance of the Lord. The rising and setting sun, Sukadeva’s words continue, steals away the life of every human being in vain, except for one who spends even a single moment discussing the Lord of excellent fame. Then come the comparisons that give this passage its force: do trees not live? Do a blacksmith’s bellows not breathe? Do beasts not eat and reproduce? Mere biological continuance, the verses insist, is not what makes a human life worth having lived.
A human being who has never heard the story of Sri Krishna, the text says plainly, is no better than a dog, a swine, a camel, or a donkey. Ears that never hear of the Lord’s marvellous deeds are mere holes, serving no real purpose; a tongue that never recounts His stories is no better than a frog’s. A head, however crowned or turbaned, that never bows before Lord Mukunda, the Bestower of Liberation, is only a burden to carry. Hands, however adorned with gold, that never offer worship to Sri Hari are as good as a dead man’s. Eyes that never gaze upon the forms of Lord Vishnu are as useless as the eye-markings on a peacock’s tail feathers — beautiful, perhaps, but blind to their true purpose. Feet that never travel to places sacred to Sri Hari are no different from the roots of a tree, rooted in place and going nowhere that matters.
The passage grows still more pointed. A person who has never bathed in the dust raised by the feet of the Lord’s devotees is, the text says, dead though still living; one who has never known the fragrance of Tulasi leaves offered at Lord Vishnu’s feet is a breathing corpse. And then comes the verse that gives this whole sequence its emotional centre.
तदश्मसारं हृदयं बतेदं
यद् गृह्यमाणैर्हरिनामधेयैः ।
न विक्रियेताथ यदा विकारो
नेत्रे जलं गात्ररुहेषु हर्षः ॥ २४ ॥
Meaning: A heart which does not melt when Sri Hari’s names are being uttered — either by oneself or by others — is hard as stone. And when the heart does melt, tears rush to the eyes and the hair stands on end. (Canto 2, Chapter 3, verse 24)
Read together, these verses are not meant to shame the listener so much as to startle — to insist that hearing, chanting, and being moved by the Lord’s names are not decorative additions to a good life but its very substance. Where Chapters One and Two taught elaborate techniques of meditation and yogic discipline for the rare, advanced practitioner, this closing sequence returns to something anyone can do in any moment: listen, and let the heart respond.
A devotee's heart melts on hearing the Lord's holy names, tears filling the eyes — the chapter teaches that this openness of heart, not outward show, is the true measure of devotion (verse 24).
A devotee’s heart melts on hearing the Lord’s holy names, tears filling the eyes — the chapter teaches that this openness of heart, not outward show, is the true measure of devotion (verse 24).
The Chapter’s Final Word — and What Comes Next
The chapter closes gently rather than with a flourish. Saunaka, having heard all this, tells Suta that his words are most agreeable to the mind, and asks him to now relate what Sukadeva told Parikshit in reply to the king’s next question. With that request placed, and not yet answered, the colophon arrives: “Thus ends the third discourse,” it reads, “in Book Two of the great and glorious Bhagavata-Purana, otherwise known as the Paramahamsa-Samhita.” The king’s next question — and Sukadeva’s expansive answer describing the creation of the universe — belongs to the following chapter, Discourse Four, which lies beyond the scope of this one.
Even as a child at play, Parikshit worshipped Sri Krishna as one of his games — a glimpse of the devotion that made his final conversation with Sukadeva Goswami so fitting (verse 15).
Even as a child at play, Parikshit worshipped Sri Krishna as one of his games — a glimpse of the devotion that made his final conversation with Sukadeva Goswami so fitting (verse 15).
Principal Teachings of This Chapter
1. Sukadeva’s answer to Parikshit’s dying question is now complete. The meditations on the cosmic and personal forms of the Lord, taught across Chapters One and Two, together formed his full reply on the duty of a thoughtful man facing death (verse 1).
2. Many deities are worshipped for many desires — and that is not wrong. The Bhagavatam names nearly thirty specific worldly aims, each paired with the deity traditionally approached for it, without condemning any of them (verses 2–9).
3. Yet the wise worship the Supreme Person directly. Whether desireless, full of desire, or seeking liberation itself, the person of broader intelligence worships the Lord with intense devotion — the highest good, even for worshippers of other gods, is found only in devotion to Him (verse 10).
4. Devotion ripens through the company of devotees. It is specifically in such fellowship, hearing discourses on Sri Hari, that the heart is purified, passion subsides, and an irreversible love for devotion takes root (verses 11–12).
5. A life without hearing of the Lord is compared to mere animal existence. Trees live, bellows breathe, beasts eat and reproduce — but a human being who never hears, speaks, or remembers the Lord’s glories has, in this teaching, wasted the very thing that makes human life distinct (verses 17–23).
6. The truest sign of devotion is a heart that responds. Tears in the eyes and hair standing on end when hearing the Lord’s names are not affectation; their absence, the text says plainly, marks a heart as hard as stone (verse 24).
A Devotional Reflection
There is something almost startling about how this chapter moves. It begins in the register of a careful reference manual — desire after desire, deity after deity, laid out with the calm precision of a teacher covering necessary ground. And then, without warning, it turns and will not let the listener look away: is your life more than a tree’s, more than a bellows’, more than a beast’s? The question is not asked to condemn ordinary human striving for knowledge, progeny, wealth, or long life — the chapter has just spent nine verses honouring exactly those pursuits and the deities associated with them. It is asked to make sure that, underneath all such striving, something else has not been forgotten: that the heart itself is capable of melting, of responding, of being moved to tears by a name. Sukadeva’s teaching here is not a rejection of the world’s many altars. It is an insistence that behind every altar stands one Lord, and that no desire, however small, is finally answered until the heart turns toward Him.
A Daily Devotional Practice
Today, take a few quiet minutes to notice your own heart as this chapter describes it. Chant or softly speak the Lord’s holy name — “Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya” — slowly, without hurry, and simply pay attention to whatever stirs. You need not force any particular feeling. The chapter’s teaching is not that a certain performance is required, only that the heart is meant to be reachable — soft enough to be moved by the sound of His name, the way this chapter says it should be. Let that quiet attentiveness be your offering today.
Conclusion
The third chapter of the Second Canto completes a long arc that began with Parikshit’s question about the duty of a soul facing death, and then, having answered that question fully, it widens its gaze to something universal — the countless desires that draw human beings toward countless deities, and the one devotion that underlies and surpasses them all. Sukadeva neither dismisses the many forms of worship named here nor allows them to be mistaken for the final goal. Every desire, the chapter insists, finds its truest fulfilment only in the Supreme Person; and the surest sign that this devotion has taken root is not a technique mastered or a ritual performed correctly, but a heart that can still be moved — to tears, to trembling, to joy — simply by hearing His name. The chapter closes not with an answer but with a request for more, leaving Saunaka, Suta, and the reader alike leaning forward toward what Sukadeva will say next.
May the divine wisdom of Srimad Bhagavatam awaken pure devotion within our hearts.
Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya.
Jay Shree Madhav.
Verification and Discrepancy Notes
Verse count: Confirmed 25 verses in this chapter in both the Gita Press primary edition and Vedabase (SB 2.3.1–2.3.25), a 1:1 match. Verified directly by reading Vedabase verses 1, 10, and 24 in full alongside the chapter’s complete verse-by-verse summary list on vedabase.io.
Chapter title: Gita Press titles this chapter “Worship of different deities for the gratification of various desires and the superiority of Devotion to the Lord.” Vedabase’s short title for the same chapter is “Pure Devotional Service: The Change in Heart.” Both describe the same content accurately from different angles — Gita Press names the chapter’s full two-part structure (the catalogue, then devotion’s superiority), while Vedabase highlights its culminating theme. This article follows the Gita Press title as the primary edition’s formal title.
Deity names: A small number of deity names in the catalogue of verses 2–9 are glossed slightly differently across English editions (for instance, the deity of prosperity in verse 3 appears in some renderings as “the divine Maya” and in others as “Durga-devi,” both referring to the Lord’s own potency presiding over Prakriti). This is a difference in English gloss, not a discrepancy in the underlying Sanskrit or the chapter’s teaching; this article follows the Gita Press gloss throughout.
PDF page order: Unlike the tail end of Chapter 2 (which required reassembling text from out-of-sequence scanned pages belonging to other Books), this chapter’s source pages run in correct, unbroken order in the source PDF, confirmed by continuous verse numbering and the closing colophon.
Series: Srimad Bhagavatam Wisdom · Biswa Sanatan Dharma Seva Trust.
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