Text 41] Krsna Is the Source of All Incarnations 183

Lord. It carries with it all the transcendental blessings of Lord Sri Krsna
that we can expect from His personal contact.

TEXT 41

Tes TATA SAMA ATH |
adaateranat at ae AATIAT 119211

tad idam grahayamasa

sutam atmavatam varam
sarva-vede tihasanam

sdram saram samuddhrtam

tat—that; idam—this; grahayamasa—made to accept; sutam—unto his
son; atmavatam—of the self-realized; varam—most respectful; sarva—all;
veda—Vedic literatures (books of knowledge); itihasanam—of all the
histories; saram—cream; sdram—cream; samuddrtam—taken out.

TRANSLATION

Sri Vyasadeva delivered it to his son, who is the most respected among
the self-realized, after extracting the cream of all Vedic literatures and
histories of the universe.

PURPORT

Men witha poor fund of knowledge only accept the history of the world
from the time of Buddha, or since 600 B.C., and prior to this period all
histories mentioned in the scriptures are calculated by them to be only
imaginary stories. That is not a fact. All the stories mentioned in the
Puranas and Mahabharata, etc., are actual histories, not only of this planet
but also of millions of other planets within the universe. Sometimes the
history of planets beyond this world appear to such men to be unbeliev-
able. But they do not know that different planets are not equal in all
respects and that therefore some of the historical facts derived from other
planets do not correspond with the experience of this planet. Considering
the different situation of different planets and also time and circumstances,
there is nothing wonderful in the stories of the Puranas, nor are they
imaginary. We should always remember the maxim that one man’s food
is another man’s poison. We should not, therefore, reject the stories and
