SB (1962) Sixth Chapter - Conversation Between Narada & Vyasa
SB 1.6.1 (1962): (Suta said) Thus hearing all about Sri Narada's birth and activities, Vyasa Deva the incarnation of God and son of Satyavati asked as follows of the Brahmins.
SB 1.6.2 (1962): Sri Vyasdeva asked Sri Naradaji, what did he do after the departure of the great sages who had instructed him about scientific transcendental knowledge before the beginning of the present birth.
SB 1.6.3 (1962): Oh the son of Brahma, how did you pass your duration of life after the initiation and how did you quit your body having attained the time in due course.
SB 1.6.4 (1962): Oh the great sage, the time annihilates everything in due course and how it so happened that subject matter which happened prior to this duration of Brahma's day is still afresh in your remembrance without being disturbed by time.
SB 1.6.5 (1962): Sri Naradaji said, The great sages who had imparted upon me scientific knowledge in transcendence, having departed from me for other places I had to pass on my life like this.
SB 1.6.6 (1962): I was the only son of my mother who not only belonged to the simple woman class but also she was only a maid servant. And I being her only offspring having no other alternative protection, she bound me with tie of affectionate bondage.
SB 1.6.7 (1962): She wanted to look after my maintenance properly but because she was not independant she was unable to do anything for me. The world is under full control of the Supreme Lord and therefore everyone is like the wooden doll in the hands of the dancing master.
SB 1.6.8 (1962): I also lived in that school of the brahmins being dependant on my mother's affection while I was a mere child of five years old without any experience of the countries and different directions.
SB 1.6.9 (1962): Once upon a time the poor woman my mother while engaged in milking cow at night was on the road bitten by a serpent striking on the leg as it was influenced by the Supreme Time.
SB 1.6.10 (1962): I tooked it as special mercy of the Lord who always desires benediction for His devotees and thinking like that I started for the northern side after that.
SB 1.6.11 (1962): After his departure Sri Narada Muni (in his previous life) began to pass on through many flourishing metropolis, towns villages, animal farms, mines, agricultural lands, valleys, flower gardens and natural forests as well as nursery gardens.
SB 1.6.12 (1962): He passed through hills and mountains full of reservoirs of variagated minerals like gold, silver and copper. Tracts of land with reservoirs of water full of beautiful lotus flowers deserving to be used by the denizens of heaven and decorated with bewildered drones by the singing birds upon them.
SB 1.6.13 (1962): I alone then passed through many forests full of pipe, bamboo, pens, sharp-grass, weeds, caves which are very difflcult to go through alone and still I visited those dangerously fearful forests deep and dark and the play-yards of the snakes, owls, jackels etc.
SB 1.6.14 (1962): Thus travelling I felt tired both bodily and mentally and I was both thirsty and hungry. So I took bath in the lake of a river and drunk water also. I got relief from tiredness by such contact of water.
SB 1.6.15 (1962): After that under the shadow of a banian tree in the forest without any human habitation I began to meditate upon the Supersoul situated within myself by my intelligence as I heard it from liberated souls.
SB 1.6.16 (1962): As soon as I began to meditate upon the lotus feet of the Personality of Godhead with my mind transformed into transcendental love, tears rolled down from eyes and after that the Lord Personality of Godhead Sri Krishna appeared on the lotus of my heart.
SB 1.6.17 (1962): Oh Vyasdeva, at that time being excessively over powered by feelings of happiness, every part of my body became distinguished being absorbed in the ocean of ecstacy, I could not see both myself and the Lord.
SB 1.6.18 (1962): The transcendental form of the Lord, as it is, is just apt to the mind by its desire and is at once vanishing all disparity of the mind. Having not seen that form again all of a sudden I got up being perturbed in the mind as it happens after losing the desirable.
SB 1.6.19 (1962): I desired to see again that transcendental Form of the Lord but inspite of my attempting to concentrate the mind upon the heart with eagerness of reviewing the Form, I could not see any more and thus without being satisfied, I was like one very much agrieved.
SB 1.6.20 (1962): Thus seeing myself so attempting in that lonely place, the Personality of Godhead, who is transcendental to all mundane description, said unto me in gravity and with pleasing words just to mitigate my grief.
SB 1.6.21 (1962): Oh Narada I regret very much that during this span of life you shall no more be able to see Me. Those who are incomplete in service and is still immature in being freed from all material dirts hardly can see Me.
SB 1.6.22 (1962): Oh the virtuous, as you have once only seen My Person, it is just for your increasing the hankerings for Me. Because the more your hanker for Me, the more you be freed from all material desires.
SB 1.6.23 (1962): "By service of the Absolute Truth even for some days a devotee attains firm and fixed up intelligence unto Me. As such he goes to become My associate in the transcendental world after having given up the present deplorable material worlds".
SB 1.6.24 (1962): Thus intelligence engaged in My devotion can never be separated at any time. Even at the time of creation as well as at the time of annihilation of the living beings your remembrance will continue by My mercy.
SB 1.6.25 (1962): Thus spoken, that Supreme Authority personified by sound and unseen by the eyes but wonderful, stopped speaking and myself on my part feeling a sense of gratitude offered my obeisances unto Him by my head.
SB 1.6.26 (1962): Thus I began chanting the holy name and fame of the Lord by repeated recitation and without any formalities of the material world. Such chanting and remembering of the transcendental pastimes of the Lord are all benedictory and so doing I travelled all over the earth fully satisfied and without being proud or envious.
SB 1.6.27 (1962): Thus oh Brahmin Vyasadeva, in due course of time I, who was fully absorbed in thinking Krishna and therefore had no material attachment having been completely freed from all material dirts, met with death exactly like the lightening and illumination occur simultaneously.
SB 1.6.28 (1962): Having thus the transcendental body befitting an associate of the Personality of Godhead, been awarded upon me, I was acquitted of the body made of five material elements and thus all acquired fruitive results of work was prohibited.
SB 1.6.29 (1962): At the end of millennium when the Lord Personality of Godhead Narayana lie down within the water of devastation, at that time when Brahma began to enter into Him along with all creative elements, I also entered within through his breathing.
SB 1.6.30 (1962): After expiry of a peiod of one thousands times of fortythree lacs of solar years, when Brahma awoke to create again by the will of the Lord, all the rishis like Morichi, Angira atri etc. were created from the transcendental body of the Lord and myself also appeared along with them.
SB 1.6.31 (1962): Since then, I do travel everywhere, by the Grace of the Almighty Vishnu either in the transcendental world or in the three divisions of the material world without any restriction because I am fixed up unbroken in the devotional service of the Lord.
SB 1.6.32 (1962): I do travel as above mentioned by constantly singing the glories of the Lord in transcendental message by vibrating this instrument of Vina charged with transcendental sound and given to Me by Lord Krishna.
SB 1.6.33 (1962): The Supreme Lord Sri Krishna whose glories and activities are all pleasing to hear does at once appear on the seat of my heart as if he is called for,—as soon as I begin to chant His holy activities.
SB 1.6.34 (1962): It is personally experienced by Sri Narada Muni that for persons who are always full with cares and anxieties on account of desiring contact of the senses with sense object,—constant chanting of the transcendental activities of the Personality of Godhead (Hari) is just the suitable boat for crossing the ocean of nescience.
SB 1.6.35 (1962): It is true that by practising restraint of the senses by Yoga system one can get relief from the disturbances of desires and lust but as it is the same is not sufficient to give satisfaction to the soul as it is derived from the devotional service of the Personality of Godhead.
SB 1.6.36 (1962): Oh Vyasadeva you are freed from all sins and thus I have explained all about my birth and activities for self realisation as it was asked by you and as it will be conducive for your personal self satisfaction also.
SB 1.6.37 (1962): Suta Goswami said, thus addressing Vyasadeva, Srila Narada Muni-took leave from him and vibrating on His instrument Veena left the spot for wondering at His free will.
SB 1.6.38 (1962): All glory and success to Srila Narada Muni because He glorifies the activities of the Personality of Godhead and doing so He Himself takes pleasure in it and also enlivens all the distressed people of the universe.