← Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (1962)

Chapter 5: Sri Narada's Instructions on Srimad Bhagwatam for Vyasdeva

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SB 1.5.21

tvam ātmanā''tmānam avehy amogha-dṛk parasya puṁsaḥ paramātmanaḥ kalām ajaṁ prajātaṁ jagataḥ śivāya tan mahānubhāvābhyudayo 'dhigaṇyatām

Synonyms

tvamyour self; ātmanāthe super soul; ātmānamby your own self; avehisearch out; amogha-dṛkone who has perfect vision; parasyaof the transcendence; puṁsaḥpersonality of Godhead; paramātmanaḥof the supreme Lord; kalāmplenary part; ajambirthless; prajātamhave taken birth; jagataḥof the world; śivāyafor the welbeing; tatthat; mahānubhāvaof the Supreme Personality of Godhead Sri Krishna; abhyudayaḥpastimes; adhigaṇyatāmdescribe most vividly.

Translation

Your goodness has the perfect vision and you can yourself know the Super soul Personality of Godhead because you are persent as the plenary portion of the Lord. Although you are birthless, still you have appeared on this earth for the welbeing of all people. Please therefore describe the transcendental pastimes of the Supreme Personality of Godhead Sri Krishna, more vividly.

Purport

Srila Vyasdeva is the empowered plenary portion incarnation of the Personality of Godhead Sri Krishna. He descended by His causeless mercy to deliver the fallen soul in the material world. The fallen and forgotten souls are detached from the transcendental loving service of the Lord. The living entities are parts and parcels of the Lord and they are eternally servitors of the Lord. All the Vedic literatures are, therefore, put into systematic order for the benefit of the fallen souls and it is the duty of the fallen souls to take advantage of such literatures and be freed from the bondage of material existence. Although formally Srila Narada Rishi is His spiritual master, Srila Vyasadeva is not at all dependent on such spiritual master because in essence He is the spiritual master of everyone else. But because He is doing the work of an Acharya He has tought us by His own conduct that one must have a spiritual master even He may be God Himself. Lord Sri Krishna, Lord Sri Rama or Lord Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu every one of these incarnations of Godhead, accepted a formal spiritual master although by their transcendental nature they were all cognisant of all knowledge. In order to initiate people in general for the lotus feet of Lord Sri Krishna, He himself in the incarnatin of Vyasadeva putting forward the transcendental pastims of the Lord.

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