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Krṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead
their different talents and tendencies.” This  Veda-stuti  is thus the original instruction regarding the relationship existing between the living entity and the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The highest platform of realization for the living entity is the attainment of this devotional life. One cannot be engaged in devotional life or Krṣṇa consciousness unless he is fully free from material contamination. Nārāyaṇa Rṣi informed Nārada Muni that the essence of all  Vedas  and Vedic literatures (namely, the four  Vedas , the  Upaniṣads , the  Purāṇas ) teaches the rendering of transcendental loving service to the Lord. In this connection Nārāyaṇa Rṣi has used one particular word— rasa . In devotional service this  rasa  is the via media or the basic principle for exchanging a relationship between the Lord and the living entity. A  rasa  is also described in the  Vedas  as  īśāvāsya : “The Supreme Lord is the reservoir of all pleasure.” All the Vedic literatures, the  Purāṇas , the  Vedas , the  Upaniṣads , the  Vedānta-sūtras , etc., are teaching the living entities how to attain the stage of  rasa . The  Bhāgavatam  also says that the statements in the  Mahāpurāṇa  ( Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam ) contain the essence of  rasas  in all Vedic literatures.  Nigama-kalpa-taror galitam phalam . The  Bhāgavatam  is the essence of the ripen fruit in the tree of the Vedic literature.
We understand that with the breathing of the Supreme Personality of Godhead there issued forth the four  Vedas , namely the  Rg-veda , the  Sāma-veda ,  Yajur-veda , and the  Atharva-veda , and the histories like the  Mahābhārata  and all the  Purāṇas , which are also considered to be the history of the world. The Vedic histories like the  Purāṇas  and  Mahābhārata  are called the fifth  Veda .
The verses of  Veda-stuti  are to be considered the essence of all Vedic knowledge. The four Kumāras and all other authorized sages know perfectly that devotional service in Krṣṇa consciousness is the essence of all Vedic literatures, and they are preaching this in different planets, traveling in outer space. It is stated herein that such sages, including Nārada Muni, hardly ever travel on land; they are perpetually traveling in space.
Sages like Nārada and the Kumāras travel throughout the universe in order to educate the conditioned souls and show them that their business in the world is not that of sense gratification, but of reinstating themselves again in their original position of devotional service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead. It is stated in several places that the living entities are like sparks of the fire, and the Supreme Personality of Godhead is like the fire itself. Somehow or other when the sparks fall out of the fire they lose their natural illumination; thus it is ascertained that the living entities come into this material world exactly as sparks fall from a great fire. The