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Nārada's Instructions on Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
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transcendental narrations of the pastimes of the Lord can only be described by liberated souls like Vyāsadeva and his bona fide representatives who are completely merged in the transcendental loving service of the Lord. Only to such devotees do the pastimes of the Lord and their transcendental nature become automatically manifest by dint of devotional service. No one else can either know or describe the acts of the Lord, even if they speculate on the subject for many, many years. The descriptions of the  Bhāgavatam  are so precise and accurate that whatever has been predicted in this great literature about 5,000 years before is now exactly happening. Therefore, the vision of the author comprehends past, present and future. Such liberated persons like Vyāsadeva are not only perfect by the power of vision and wisdom, but also in aural reception, in thinking, feeling and all other sense activities. A liberated person possesses perfect senses, and with perfect senses only can one serve the sense-proprietor, Hṛṣīkeśa, Śrī Kṛṣṇa the Personality of Godhead. Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is, therefore, the perfect description of the all-perfect Personality of Godhead by the all-perfect personality Śrīla Vyāsadeva, the compiler of the  Vedas .
TEXT 14
ततोऽन्यथा किंचन यद्विवक्षतः 
    पृथग्दृशस्तत्कृतस्पनामभिः 
    न कर्हिचित्कापि च दुःस्थिता मति- 
    लभेत वाताहतनौरिवास्पदम् ॥१४॥
tato'nyathā kiñcana yad vivakṣataḥ 
    pṛthag dṛśas tat-kṛta-rūpa-nāmabhiḥ 
    na karhicit kvāpi ca duḥsthitā matir 
    labheta vātā-hata-naur ivāspadam
tataḥ—from that; anyathā—apart; kiñcana—something; yat—whatsoever; vivakṣataḥ—desiring to describe; pṛthak—separately; dṛśaḥ—vision; tat-kṛta—reactionary to that; rūpa—form; nāmabhiḥ—by names; na karhicit—never; kvāpi—any; ca—and; duḥsthitā matiḥ—oscillating mind; labheta—gains; vātā-hata—troubled by the wind; nauḥ—boat; iva—like; āspadam—place.
TRANSLATION
Whatever you desire to describe, which is separate in vision from the Lord, simply reacts, with different forms, names and results, to agitate the mind as the wind agitates a boat which has no resting place.