Text 14] Narada’s Instructions on Srimad-Bhagavatam 239
transcendental narrations of the pastimes of the Lord can only be described
by liberated souls like Vydsadeva and his bona fide representatives who
are completely merged in the transcendental loving service of the Lord.
Only to such devotees do the pastimes of the Lord and their transcenden-
tal nature become automatically manifest by dint of devotional service.
No one else can either know or describe the acts of the Lord, even if they
speculate on the subject for many, many years. The descriptions of the
Bhagavatam are so precise and accurate that whatever has been predicted
in this great literature about 5,000 years before is now exactly happening.
Therefore, the vision of the author comprehends past, present and future.
Such liberated persons like Vyasadeva are not only perfect by the power of
vision and wisdom, but also in aural reception, in thinking, feeling and all
other sense activities. A liberated person possesses perfect senses, and with
perfect senses only can one serve the sense-proprietor, HrsikeSa, Sri Krsna
the Personality of Godhead. Srimad-Bhagavatam is, therefore, the perfect
description of the all-perfect Personality of Godhead by the all-perfect
personality Srila Vyasadeva, the compiler of the Vedas.
TEXT 14
qa feat afar:
TUTE AGTETATATN:
a afefaenta = g:ferr afa-
SHA TMaeaaifarere 2B
tato’nyatha kificana yad vivaksatah
prthag drsas tat-krta-riipa-namabhih
na karhicit kvapi ca duhsthita matir
labheta vata-hata-naur ivaspadam

tatah—from that; anyathad—apart; kificana—something; yat—whatso-
ever; vivaksatah—desiring to describe; prthak—separately ; drsah—vision; tat-
krta—reactionary to that; ripa—form; nadmabhih—by names; na karhicit—
never: kvapi—any; ca—and; duhsthita matih—oscillating mind; labheta—
gains; vata-hata—troubled by the wind; nauh- boat; iva—like; aspadam—
place.

TRANSLATION
Whatever you desire to describe, which is separate in vision from the

Lord, simply reacts, with different forms, names and results, to agitate the
mind as the wind agitates a boat which has no resting place.
