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Answers by Citing the Lord's Version
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master without sense control is certainly the cheater, and the disciple of such a so-called spiritual master is the cheated.
One should not think of Brahmājī as a dead great-grandfather, as we have experience in this planet. He is the oldest great-grandfather, and he is still living, and Nārada is also living. The age of the inhabitants of the Brahmaloka planet is mentioned in the  Bhagavad-gītā . The inhabitants of this small planet earth can hardly calculate even the duration of one day of Brahmā.
TEXT 44
तस्मा इदं भागवतं पुराणं दशलक्षणम् । 
    प्रोक्तं भगवता प्राह प्रीतः पुत्राय भूतकृत् ॥४४॥
tasmā idam bhāgavatam  
 purāṇam daśa-lakṣaṇam  
 proktam bhagavatā prāha  
 prītaḥ putrāya bhūta-kṛt
tasmai —thereupon;  idam —this;  bhāgavatam —the glories of the Lord or the science of the Lord;  purāṇam —Vedic supplementary;  daśa-lakṣaṇam —ten characteristics;  proktam —described;  bhagavatā —by the Personality of Godhead;  prāha —said;  prītaḥ —in satisfaction;  putrāya —unto the son;  bhūta-kṛt —the creator of the universe.
TRANSLATION
Thereupon the supplementary Vedic literature, Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, which was described by the Personality of Godhead and contains ten characteristics, was told by the father [Brahmā] to his son Nārada with satisfaction.
PURPORT
Although the  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  was spoken in four verses, it had ten characteristics which will be explained in the next chapter. In the four verses it is first said that the Lord existed before the creation, and thus the beginning of the  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  includes the  Vedānta  aphorism,