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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 3, Ch. 25]
happiness in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. The more we hear and chant the glories of the Lord, the more we become happy.
TEXT 3
यद्यद्विधत्ते भगवान् स्वच्छन्दात्माऽऽत्ममायया। तानि मे श्रद्धानस्य कीर्तन्यान्यनुकीर्तय ॥ ३ ॥
yad yad vidhatte bhagavān svacchandātmātma-māyayā tāni me śraddadhānasya kīrtanyāny anukīrtaya
yat yat—whatever; vidhatte—He performs; bhagavān—the Personality of Godhead; svacchanda-ātmā—full of self-desire; ātma-māyayā—by His internal potency; tāni—all of them; me—to me; śraddadhānasya—faithful; kīrtanyāni—worthy of praise; anukīrtaya—please describe.
TRANSLATION
Therefore please precisely describe all the activities and pastimes of the Personality of Godhead, who is full of self-desire and who assumes all these activities by His internal potency.
PURPORT
The word  anukīrtaya  is very significant.  Anukīrtaya  means to follow the description—not to create a concocted mental description, but to follow. Śaunaka Rṣi requested Sūta Gosvāmī to describe what he had actually heard from his spiritual master, Śukadeva Gosvāmī, about the transcendental pastimes which the Lord manifested by His internal energy. Bhagavān, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, has no material body, but He can assume any kind of body by His supreme will. That is made possible by His internal energy.
TEXT 4
सूत उवाच
द्वैपायनसरस्वत्वेवं मैत्रेयो भगवांस्तथा । प्राहेदं विदुरं प्रीत आन्वीक्षिक्यां प्रचोदितः ॥ ४ ॥