SB 1.7.12 (1964)
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT No. 12
Pariskitatho rayarshe janma karma vilapanam Samastham cha panduputranam bakshe Krishna kathodayam
ENGLISH SYNONYMS
Parikshito—of the King Parikshit, Atho—thus, Rajarshe—of king who was the rishi amongst the kings, Karma—activities, Vilapanam—deliverance, Samstham—renunciation of the world, Bakshe—just I shall speak, Krishnakathodyam—what gives rise to the transcendental narration of Krishna the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
TRANSLATION
Suta Goswami thus addressed the Rishis headed by Sounaka and said: now I shall begin the transcendental narration of Lord Sri Krishna in connection with the topics of the birth, activities and deliverance of King Parikshit, the sage amongst the kings as well as in connection with the renouncement of the sons of Pandu in the wordly order.
PURPORT
Lord Krishna is so kind upon the fallen souls that He personally incarnates Himself amongst the different kinds of the living entities and takes part with them in the matter of daily activities of the materialistic beings. Any historical fact old or new which has a connection with the activities of the Lord is to be understood as transcendental narration of the Lord. Without Krishna, all the supplementary literatures like the Puranas and Mahabharata are simply stories or historical facts. But with Krishna the whole thing becomes transcendental and when we hear of them at once transcendentally related with the Lord. Srimad Bhagwatam is also a Puranam like that but the special significance of this Puranam is that the activities of the Lord are on the Lime Light instead of the historical facts. Srimad Bhagwatam is thus recommended by Lord Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu as the spotless Puranam. There is a class of less intelligent devotees of the Bhagwatam Purnam who desire to relish at once the activities of the Lord narrated in the 10th canto with out any understanding of the primary canto's. They are under the false impression that the other canto's are not concerned with Krishna and thus more foolishly than intelligently take to the readings of the 10th Canto. These less intelligent class of Bhagwat readers are specifically lessoned herewith that other canto's of the Bhagwatam are as much important as the 10th canto or on the other hand nobody should try to go into the matters of the 10th canto, without having thoroughly understood the purport of the other nine canto's. Krishna and His pure devotees like the Pandavas all are on same plane. Krishna is not without His devotees of all the Rasas or mellow and the pure devotees like the Pandavas or others are not without Krishna. The devotees and the Lord are interlinked and they cannot be seperated and therefore talks about them are all Krishnakatha or topics of the Lord.