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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 1, Ch. 3]
TEXT 8
वृतीयमृषिसर्गं वै देवर्षित्वमुपेत्य सः । तन्त्रं सात्वतमाचष्ट नैष्कर्म्यं कर्मणां यतः ॥ ८ ॥
tṛtīyam ṛṣi-sargam vai devarṣitvam upetya saḥ tantram sātvatam ācaṣṭa naiṣkarmyam karmaṇām yataḥ
tṛtīyam —the third one;  ṛṣi-sargam —the millennium of the  ṛṣis ;  vai —certainly;  devarṣitvam —incarnation of the  ṛṣi  amongst the demigods;  upetya —having accepted;  saḥ —he;  tantram —exposition of the  Vedas ;  sātvatam —which is especially meant for devotional service;  ācaṣṭa —collected;  naiṣkarmyam —nonfruitive;  karmaṇām —of work;  yataḥ —from which.
TRANSLATION
In the millennium of the  ṛṣis , the Personality of Godhead accepted the third empowered incarnation in the form of Devarṣi Nārada, who is a great sage among the demigods. He collected expositions of the  Vedas  which deal with devotional service and which inspire nonfruitive action.
PURPORT
The great  Ṛṣi  Nārada, who is an empowered incarnation of the Personality of Godhead, propagates devotional service all over the universe. All great devotees of the Lord all over the universe and in different planets and species of life are his disciples. Śrīla Vyāsadeva, the compiler of the  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam , is also one of his disciples. He is the author of  Nārada-pañcarātra , which is the exposition of the  Vedas , particularly for devotional service of the Lord. This  Nārada-pañcarātra  trains the  karmīs  or the fruitive workers to achieve liberation from the bondage of fruitive work. The conditioned souls are mostly attracted by fruitive work because they want to enjoy life by the sweat of their own brow. The whole universe is full of fruitive workers in all species of life. The fruitive works include all kinds of economic development plans. But the law of nature provides that every action has its resultant reaction, and the performer of the work is bound up by such reactions, good or bad. The reaction of good work is comparative material prosperity, whereas the reaction of bad work