302 Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead

as the supreme well-wisher of the conditioned souls. It is stated in the
Bhagavad-gita that Lord Krsna descends in every millennium just to give
protection to His devotees and to annihilate the nondevotees. Narayana
Rsi, also being an incarnation of Krsna, is also addressed as the well-wisher
of the conditioned souls. As is stated in the Bhagavad-gita, everyone
should know that there is no well-wisher like Krsna. Everyone should
understand that Lord Krsna is the well-wisher of everyone and should
take shelter unto Krsna. In this way one can become completely
confident and satisfied knowing that he has someone who is able to give
him all protection. Krsna Himself, His incarnations and His plenary
expansions are all supreme well-wishers of the conditioned souls, but
Krsna is the well-wisher even for the demons, for He gave salvation to all
demons who came to kill Him at Vrndavana; therefore Krsna’s welfare
activities are absolute, for even though He annihilates a demon or gives
protection to a devotee, His activities are one and the same. It is said that
the demon Piitana was elevated to the same position as Krsna’s mother.
When Krsna kills a demon it should be known that the demon is supremely
benefitted by this; however, a pure devotee is always protected by the
Lord.

Narada Muni, after offering respects to his spiritual master, went to the
asrama of Vyasadeva and narrated the entire story to his disciple. Thus
Narada Muni, being properly received by Vyasadeva in his asrama and
seated very comfortably, began to narrate what he had heard from
Narayana Rsi. In this way Sukadeva Gosvami informed Maharaja Pariksit
of the answers to his questions regarding the essence of Vedic knowledge
and regarding what is considered to be the ultimate goal in the Vedas. The
supreme goal in life is to seek the transcendental blessings of the Supreme
Personality of Godhead and thus become engaged in the loving service of
the Lord. One should follow in the footsteps of Sukadeva Gosvami and all
the Vaisnavas in the disciplic succession and should pay respectful obei-
sances unto Lord Krsna the Supreme Personality of Godhead Hari. The
four sects of Vaisnava disciplic succession, namely the Madhva-sampra-
daya, the Ramanuja- sampradaya, the Visnusvami-sampradaya, and the
Nimbarka-sampradaya, in pursuance of all Vedic conclusions, agree that
one should surrender unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

The Vedic literatures are divided into two parts: the srutis and the
smrtis. The Srutis are the four Vedas: Rk, Sama, Atharva and Yajus, and
the Upanisads, and the smrtis are the Puranas like Mahabharata, which
includes Bhagavad-gita. The conclusion of all these is that one should
know Sri Krsna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He is the
