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(6) Manvantara: the regulative principles for living beings who desire to achieve
perfection in human life. The rules of Manu, as described in the Manu-samhita,
guide the way to such perfection.

(7) Isanukatha: scriptural information regarding the Personality of Godhead, His
incarnations on earth and the activities of His devotees. Scriptures dealing with
these subjects are essential for progressive human life.

(8) Nirodha: the winding up of all energies employed in creation. Such potencies
are emanations from the Personality of Godhead who eternally lies in the Karana
Ocean. The cosmic creations, manifested with His breath, are again dissolved in due
course.

(9) Mukti: liberation of the conditioned souls encaged by the gross and subtle
coverings of body and mind. When freed from all material affection, the soul, giving
up the gross and subtle material bodies, can attain the spiritual sky in his original
spiritual body and engage in transcendental loving service to the Lord in Vaikuntha-
loka or Krsnaloka. When the soul is situated in his original constitutional position
of existence, he is said to be liberated. It is possible to engage in transcendental
loving service to the Lord and become jivan-mukta, aliberated soul, even while in the
material body.

(10) Asraya: the Transcendence, the summum bonum, from whom everything
emanates, upon whom everything rests and in whom everything merges after
annihilation. He is the source and support of all. The dsraya is also called the
Supreme Brahman, as in the Ved@nta-sutra (athato brahma-jijfiasa, janmady asya
yatah). Srimad-Bhdgavatam especially describes this Supreme Brahman as the
Gsraya. Sri Krsna is this dsraya, and therefore the greatest necessity of life is to
study the science of Krsna.

Srimad-Bhagavatam accepts Srv Krsna as the shelter of all manifestations because
Lord Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is the ultimate source of every-
thing, the supreme goal of all.

Two different principles are to be considered herein—namely, dSraya, the object
providing shelter, and dsrita, the dependents requiring shelter. The asrita exist under
the original principle, the dsraya. The first nine categories, described in the first nine
cantos of Srimad-Bhdgavatam, from creation to liberation, including the purusa-
avataras, the incarnations, the marginal energy or living entities, and the external
energy or material world, are all dsrita. The prayers of Srimad-Bhdgavatam, however,
aim for the dsraya-tattva, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Sri Krsna. The
great souls expert in describing Srimad-Bhagavatam have very diligently delineated
the other nine categories, sometimes by direct narrations and sometimes by indirect
narrations such as stories. The real purpose of doing this is to know perfectly the
Absolute Transcendence, Sri Krsna, for the entire creation, both material and
spiritual, rests on the body of Sri Krsna.

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