284 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 1, Ch. 6
PURPORT

As spirit is not annihilated even after the annihilation of the material
body, so also spiritual consciousness is not annihilated. Sri Narada de-
veloped this spiritual consciousness even when he had his material body
in the previous kalpa. Consciousness of the material body means spiritual
consciousness expressed through the medium of a material body. This
consciousness is inferior, destructible and perverted. But super conscious-
ness of the supramind in the spiritual plane is as good as the spirit soul
and is never annihilated.

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qamat TIM AT CAEN I

narada uvaca
bhiksubhir vipravasite
vijndnadestrbhir mama
vartamano vayasy adye
tata etad akarasam

§ri ndradah uvaca—Sri Narada said; bhiksubhih—by the great sages;
vipravasite—having departed for other places; vijfdna-— scientific spiritual
knowledge; ddestrbhih—those who imparted unto me; mama—mine;
vartamanah—present; vayasi ddye—before this life; tatah— thereafter; etat—
this much; akarasam—performed.

TRANSLATION

Sri Narada said: The great sages, who had imparted scientific knowl-
edge of transcendence to me, departed for other places, and | had to
pass my life in this way.

PURPORT

In his previous life, when Naradaji was impregnated with: spiritual
knowledge by the grace of the great sages, there was a tangible change in
his life, although he was only a boy of five years. That is an important
