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The Process of Creation
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make progress in the transcendental science of the Lord. And a bona fide spiritual master like Śukadeva Gosvāmī does not speak about the Lord only in the matter of His internal potencies, but also explains how He associates with His external potencies.
The Lord's pastimes, in the internal potency, are displayed in His activities in Vṛndāvana, but His external potential works are directed in His features of Kāraṇārṇavaśāyī Viṣṇu, Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu, and Kṣīrodakaśāyī Viṣṇu. Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī offers his good counsel to the interested Vaiṣṇavas when he says that they should not only be interested to hear about the Lord's activities (like  rāsa-līlā , etc.), but that they must be keenly interested in His pastimes in His features of the  Puruṣāvatāras  in connection with  sṛṣṭi-tattva , creational functions, following the examples of Mahārāja Parīkṣit, the ideal disciple, and Śukadeva Gosvāmī, the ideal spiritual master.
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सूत उवाच
इत्युपामन्त्रितो राज्ञा गुणानुकथने हरेः। हृषीक्रेशमनुसृत्य प्रतिवक्तुं प्रचक्रमे ॥११॥
sūta uvāca   ity upāmantrito rājñā   guṇānukathane hareḥ   hṛṣīkeśam anusmṛtya   prativaktum pracakrame
sūta uvāca —Sūta Gosvāmī said;  iti —thus;  upāmantritaḥ —being requested;  rājñā —by the King;  guṇa-anukathane —in describing the transcendental attributes of the Lord;  hareḥ —of the Personality of Godhead;  hṛṣīkeśam —the master of the senses;  anusmṛtya —properly remembering;  prativaktum —just to reply;  pracakrame —executed the preliminaries.
TRANSLATION
Sūta Gosvāmī said, When Śukadeva Gosvāmī was thus requested by the King to describe the creative energy of the Personality of Godhead, the former then systematically remembered the master of the senses [Śrī Kṛṣṇa], and to reply properly he spoke thus.