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(6)  Manvantara : the regulative principles for living beings who desire to achieve perfection in human life. The rules of Manu, as described in the  Manu-saṁhitā , guide the way to such perfection.
(7)  Īśānukathā : scriptural information regarding the Personality of Godhead, His incarnations on earth and the activities of His devotees. Scriptures dealing with these subjects are essential for progressive human life.
(8)  Nirodha : the winding up of all energies employed in creation. Such potencies are emanations from the Personality of Godhead who eternally lies in the Kāraṇa Ocean. The cosmic creations, manifested with His breath, are again dissolved in due course.
(9)  Mukti : liberation of the conditioned souls encaged by the gross and subtle coverings of body and mind. When freed from all material affection, the soul, giving up the gross and subtle material bodies, can attain the spiritual sky in his original spiritual body and engage in transcendental loving service to the Lord in Vaikuṇṭhaloka or Kṛṣṇaloka. When the soul is situated in his original constitutional position of existence, he is said to be liberated. It is possible to engage in transcendental loving service to the Lord and become  jīvan-mukta , a liberated soul, even while in the material body.
(10)  Āśraya : the Transcendence, the summum bonum, from whom everything emanates, upon whom everything rests and in whom everything merges after annihilation. He is the source and support of all. The  āśraya  is also called the Supreme Brahman, as in the  Vedānta-sūtra  ( athāto brahma-jijñāsā, janmādy asya yataḥ ).  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  especially describes this Supreme Brahman as the  āśraya . Śrī Kṛṣṇa is this  āśraya , and therefore the greatest necessity of life is to study the science of Kṛṣṇa.
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  accepts Śrī Kṛṣṇa as the shelter of all manifestations because Lord Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is the ultimate source of everything, the supreme goal of all.
Two different principles are to be considered herein—namely,  āśraya , the object providing shelter, and  āśrita , the dependents requiring shelter. The  āśrita  exist under the original principle, the  āśraya . The first nine categories, described in the first nine cantos of  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam , from creation to liberation, including the  puruṣavatāras , the incarnations, the marginal energy or living entities, and the external energy or material world, are all  āśrita . The prayers of  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam , however, aim for the  āśraya-tattva , the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Śrī Kṛṣṇa. The great souls expert in describing  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  have very diligently delineated the other nine categories, sometimes by direct narrations and sometimes by indirect narrations such as stories. The real purpose of doing this is to know perfectly the Absolute Transcendence, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, for the entire creation, both material and spiritual, rests on the body of Śrī Kṛṣṇa.
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এ নবের উৎপত্তি-হেতু সেই আশ্রয়ার্থ ॥ ৯৩ ॥