10.75

garuda pandita laya srinama-mangala

nama-bale visa yanre na karila bala

SYNONYMS

garuda pandita—of the name Garuda Pandita; laya—takes; sri-nama-mangala—the auspicious Hare Krsna maha-mantra; nama-bale—by the strength of this chanting; visa—poison; yanre—whom; na—did not; karila—affect; bala—strength.

Garuda Pandita, the thirty-seventh branch of the tree, always engaged in chanting the auspicious name of the Lord.

Because of the strength of this chanting, even the effects of poison could not touch him.

PURPORT

Garuda Pandita was once bitten by a poisonous snake, but the snake’s poison could not affect him because of his chanting the Hare Krsna maha-mantra.