These transcendental activities are described specifically in the Tenth Canto of this work. His dissatisfaction was observed by his spiritual master, and thus Nārada advised him to write on the transcendental activities of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa. Vyāsadeva compiled all Vedic literatures, containing the four divisions of the Vedas, the Vedānta-sūtras (or the Brahma-sūtras ), the Purāṇas, the Mahābhārata, and so on. He wrote this under the instructions of Śrī Nāradajī, his spiritual master. It was compiled by Śrī Vyāsadeva after he had attained maturity in transcendental knowledge. The history of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is also very glorious. This work is described by Mahāprabhu Śrī Caitanya as the spotless Purāṇa because it contains the transcendental narration of the Personality of Godhead Śrī Kṛṣṇa. How this is so is explained in later chapters of this work. Everything that exists emanates from the Lord. Vāsudeva, or Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, is the cause of all causes. Śrī Kṛṣṇa is always meditated upon by the paramahaṁsas, who are the perfected ones among those in the renounced order of life. The name Vāsudeva particularly indicates the divine son of Vasudeva and Devakī. Vāsudeva indicates the plenary portion of the Personality of Godhead, and all the different forms of the Lord, being identical with Vāsudeva, are indicated in this text. In the Padma Purāṇa, it is also stated that out of the innumerable names of the Lord, the name of Kṛṣṇa is the principal one. In Bhagavad-gītā, in many places, the Lord asserts Himself to be the original Personality of Godhead, and this is confirmed by Arjuna, and also by great sages like Nārada, Vyāsa, and many others. Therefore, in this prayer, the first proposition holds that Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa is the primeval Lord, and if any transcendental nomenclature is to be understood as belonging to the Absolute Personality of Godhead, it must be the name indicated by the word Kṛṣṇa, which means the all-attractive. In the Sāma-veda Upaniṣad, it is also stated that Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa is the divine son of Devakī. And Brahmā, the original living being, has explained the subject of Śrī Kṛṣṇa substantially in his treatise named Brahma-saṁhitā. Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī has even more explicitly explained the subject matter in his Kṛṣṇa-sandarbha. Śrī Vyāsadeva asserts herein that Śrī Kṛṣṇa is the original Personality of Godhead, and all others are His direct or indirect plenary portions or portions of the portion. This fact will be more explicitly explained in the text of this work. Obeisances unto the Personality of Godhead, Vāsudeva, directly indicate Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, who is the divine son of Vasudeva and Devakī. I meditate upon Him, for He is the Absolute Truth. I therefore meditate upon Him, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, who is eternally existent in the transcendental abode, which is forever free from the illusory representations of the material world. Only because of Him do the material universes, temporarily manifested by the reactions of the three modes of nature, appear factual, although they are unreal. By Him even the great sages and demigods are placed into illusion, as one is bewildered by the illusory representations of water seen in fire, or land seen on water. It is He only who first imparted the Vedic knowledge unto the heart of Brahmājī, the original living being. He is directly and indirectly conscious of all manifestations, and He is independent because there is no other cause beyond Him. I meditate upon Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa because He is the Absolute Truth and the primeval cause of all causes of the creation, sustenance and destruction of the manifested universes. O my Lord, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, son of Vasudeva, O all-pervading Personality of Godhead, I offer my respectful obeisances unto You. Om- O my Lord namaḥ- offering my obeisances bhagavate- unto the Personality of Godhead vāsudevāya -unto Vāsudeva (the son of Vasudeva), or Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the primeval Lord janma-ādi- creation, sustenance and destruction asya- of the manifested universes yataḥ- from whom anvayāt- directly itarataḥ- indirectly ca- and artheṣu- purposes abhijñaḥ- fully cognizant sva-rāṭ- fully independent tene- imparted brahma- the Vedic knowledge hṛdā- consciousness of the heart yaḥ- one who ādi-kavaye-unto the original created being muhyanti- are illusioned yat- about whom sūrayaḥ- great sages and demigods tejaḥ- fire vāri- water mṛdām- earth yathā- as much as vinimayaḥ- action and reaction yatra- whereupon tri-sargaḥ- three modes of creation, creative faculties amṛṣā- almost factual dhāmnā- along with all transcendental paraphernalia svena- self-sufficiently sadā- always nirasta- negation by absence kuhakam- illusion satyam- truth param- absolute dhīmahi- I do meditate upon.
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