252 Srimad-Bhagavatam {Canto 1, Ch. 5
mahanubhava—of the Supreme Personality of Godhead Sn Krsna;
abhyudayah—pastimes; adhiganyatam—describe most vividly.
TRANSLATION
Your goodness has perfect vision. You yourself can know the Super-
soul Personality of Godhead because you are present as the plenary
portion of the Lord. Although you are birthless, you have appeared on this
earth for the well-being of all people. Please, therefore, describe the
transcendental pastimes of the Supreme Personality of Godhead Sri Krsna
more vividly.
PURPORT

Srila Vyasadeva is the empowered plenary portion incarnation of the
Personality of Godhead Sri Krsna. He descended by his causeless mercy
to deliver the fallen souls in the material world. The fallen and forgotten
souls are detached from the transcendental loving service of the Lord.
The living entities are parts and parcels of the Lord, and they are eternally
servitors of the Lord. All the Vedic literatures are, therefore, put into
systematic order for the benefit of the fallen souls, and it is the duty of
the fallen souls to take advantage of such literatures and be freed from the
bondage of material existence. Although formally Srila Narada Rsi is his
spiritual master, Srila Vyasadeva is not at all dependent on a spiritual
master because in essence he is the spiritual master of everyone else. But
because he is doing the work of an dedrya, he has taught us by his own
conduct that one must have a spiritual master, even though he be God
Himself. Lord Sri Krsna, Lord Sri Ramaand Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu,
all incarnations of Godhead, accepted formal spiritual masters, although
by Their transcendental nature They were cognizant of all knowledge.
In order to direct people in general to the lotus feet of Lord Sri Krsna,
He Himself in the incarnation of Vy4sadeva is delineating the transcendental
pastimes of the Lord.

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