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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 1, Ch. 6]
eternally liberated living entities. Śrī Nārada Muni could enter all these planets both in the material and spiritual spheres without restriction, as much as the almighty Lord is free to move personally in any part of His creation. In the material world the living beings are influenced by the three material modes of nature, namely goodness, passion and ignorance. But Śrī Nārada Muni is transcendental to all these material modes, and thus he can travel everywhere unrestricted. He is a liberated spaceman. The causeless mercy of Lord Viṣṇu is unparalleled, and such mercy is perceived by the devotees only by the grace of the Lord. Therefore, the devotees never fall down, but the materialists, i.e., the fruitive workers and the speculative philosophers, do fall down, being forced by the respective modes of nature. The  ṛṣis , as above mentioned, cannot enter into the transcendental world like Nārada. This fact is disclosed in the  Narasiṁha Purāṇa .  ṛṣis  like Marīci are authorities in fruitive work, and  ṛṣis  like Sanaka and Sanātana are authorities in philosophical speculations. But Śrī Nārada Muni is the prime authority for transcendental devotional service of the Lord. All the great authorities in the devotional service of the Lord follow in the footsteps of Nārada Muni in the order of the  Nārada-bhakti-sūtra , and therefore all the devotees of the Lord are unhesitatingly qualified to enter into the kingdom of God, Vaikuṇṭha.
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देवदत्तामिमां वीणां स्वरत्रह्मविभूषिताम् । मूर्च्छयित्वा हरिकथां गायमानश्वराम्यहम् ॥३२॥
deva-dattām imāṁ vīṇāṁ   svara-brahma-vibhūṣitām   mūrcchayitvā hari-kathāṁ   gāyamānaś carāmy aham
deva —the Supreme Personality of Godhead (Śrī Kṛṣṇa);  dattām —gifted by;  imām —this;  vīṇām —a musical stringed instrument;  svara —singing meter;  brahma —transcendental;  vibhūṣitām —decorated with;  mūrcchayitvā —vibrating;  hari-kathām —transcendental message;  gāyamānaḥ —singing constantly;  carāmi —do move;  aham —I.
TRANSLATION
And thus I travel, constantly singing the glories of the Lord and transcendental messages, vibrating this instrument called a  vīṇā  which is