CHAPTER FOUR
The Process of Creation
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सूत उवाच
वैयासकेरिति यचस्तच्चनिश्चयमात्मनः । उपधार्य मति कृष्णे औत्तरेयः सतीं व्यधात् ॥ १ ॥
sūta uvāca vaiyāsaker iti vacas tattva-niścayam ātmanaḥ upadhārya matiṁ kṛṣṇe auttareyaḥ satīṁ vyadhāt
sūtaḥ uvāca —Sūta Gosvāmī said;  vaiyāsakeḥ —of Śukadeva Gosvāmī;  iti —thus;  vacaḥ —speeches;  tattva-niścayam —that which verifies the truth;  ātmanaḥ —in the self;  upadhārya —just having realized;  matim —concentration of the mind;  kṛṣṇe —unto Lord Kṛṣṇa;  auttareyaḥ —the son of Uttarā;  satīm —chaste;  vyadhāt —applied.
TRANSLATION
Sūta Gosvāmī said:  Mahārāja Parīkṣit, the son of Uttarā, after hearing the speeches of Śukadeva Gosvāmī, which were all about the truth of the self, applied his concentration faithfully upon Lord Kṛṣṇa.
PURPORT
The word  satīm  is very significant. This means existing and chaste. And both imports are perfectly applicable in the case of Mahārāja Parīkṣit. The whole Vedic adventure is to draw one's attention entirely unto the lotus feet of Lord Kṛṣṇa without any diversion, as it is instructed in the  Bhagavad-gītā  (Bg. 15.15). Fortunately Mahārāja Parīkṣit had already been attracted to the Lord from the very beginning of his body, in the womb of his mother. In the womb of his mother, he was struck by the  brahmāstra
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