SB 1.5.13 (1962)
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT No. 13
Atho mohabhaga bhavan amoghadrik Shuchi shrabah satyarato dhritabratah Urukram asya akhila bandha muktaye Samadhina anusmara tad bechesitam
ENGLISH SYNONYMS
Atho—therefore, Mohabhaga—highly fortunate, Bhavan—yourself, Amoghadrik—the perfect seer, Shuchi—spotless, Shrabah—famous, Satyarato—taken the vow of truthfulness, Dhritabratah—fixed up in spiritual qualities, Urukramasya—of the one who performs supernatural activities (God), Akhila—universal, Bandha—bondage, Muktaye—for the matter of liberation from, Samadhina—by trance, Anusmara—think repeatedly and then describe them, Tadvichestitam—different pastimes of the Lord.
TRANSLATION
Oh Vyasdeva your vision is completely perfect. Your good fame is spotless. You are fixed up in vow and situated in truthfulness. And as such you can think of the pastimes of the Lord in trance just for the liberation of the people in general from all material bindings.
PURPORT
People in general have a taste for literatures by instinct. They want to hear and read from the authorities something about the unknown but their taste is exploited by unfortunate literatures which is full of subject matter for satisfaction of the material senses. Such literary careers develop into different kinds of mundane poems and philosophical speculations, more or less under the same influence of Maya ending in sense gratification. These literatures, although worthless in true sense of the term, are variedly decorated to attract the attention of the less intelligent men and thus the attracted living entities are more and more entangled in the material bondage without any hope of liberation for thousands and crores of generations. Sri Narada Rishi as He is the best amongst the Vaishnavas, is compassionate for such unfortunate victims of worthless literatures and as such He advises Sri Vyasdeva to compose such transcendental literature which may, not only be attractive but also actually cause liberation from all kinds of bondage of the materialistic men. Srila Vyasdeva or His representatives are the right persons to do this act, because they are rightly trained up to see things in true perspective on account of their spiritual vision. Srila Vyasdeva and His representatives are pure in thought on account of their spiritual enlightenment, fixed up in vow on account of their devotional service and all of them are determined to deliver the fallen souls rotting in the material activities. The fallen souls are very eager to receive novel informations every day and the transcendentalist like Vyasdev or Narada can supply such eager people in general with news from the spiritual world without any limitation. In the Bhagwat Geeta it is said that the material world is only a part of the whole creation and this earth is only a fragment of the whole material world.
There are thousands and thousands of literacy men all over the world and they have created many many thousands of literacy works for the information of the people in general for thousands and thousands of years. Unfortunately none of them have brought in peace and tranquility on the earth between man to man nation to nation. This is due to a spiritual vacuum in those literatures and as such the Vedic literatures specially the Bhagwat Geeta and the Srimad Bhagwatam are specifically recommended to the suffering humanity for bringing about the desired effect of liberation from the pangs of material civilization which is eating the vital part of the human energy. The Bhagwat Geeta is the spoken message by the Lord Himself recorded by Vyasdeva and the Srimad Bhagwatam is the transcendental narration of the activities of the same Lord Krishna which alone can satisfy the hankering desires of the living beings for eternal peace and liberation from miseries. Srimad Bhagwatam is, therefore, meant for all the lving beings all over the universe for total liberation from all kinds of material bondage. Such transcendental narration of the pastimes of the Lord can only be described by such liberated souls like Vyasdeva and His bonafide representatives who are completely merged in the transcendental loving service of the Lord. Because to such devotees only the pastimes of the Lord and their transcendental nature become automatically manifest by dint of devotional service attitude. No body else can either know or describe the acts of the Lord, even they speculate on the subject for many many years. Description of the Bhagwat is so precise and accurate that whatever has been predicted in this great literature, about five thousands years before, are now exactly happening without any deviation. Therefore, the vision of the author comprehends past, present and future. Such liberated persons like Vyasdeva are not only perfect by the power of vision and wisdom but also they are perfect in aural reception in thinking, feeling and all other perfect sense-activities. A liberated person means possessing perfect senses and with perfect senses only one can serve the Sense-Proprietor Hrishikesha Sri Krishna the Personality of Godhead. Srimad Bhagwat is, therefore, the perfect description of the all Perfect Personality Godhead by the all perfect Personality like Srila Vyasdeva the compiler of the Vedas.