314 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 1, Ch. 6

PURPORT

The process of devotional activities from the beginning to the stage of
transcendence is all duly explained to satisfy the enquiries of Vyasadeva.
He has explained how the seeds of devotional service were sown by
transcendental association and how they gradually developed by hearing
the sages. The result of such hearing is detachment from worldliness, so
much so that even a small boy could receive the death news of his mother,
who was his only caretaker, as the blessing of God. And at once he took
the opportunity to search out the Lord. A sincere urge for having an
interview with the Lord was also granted to him, although it is not possible
for anyone to see the Lord with mundane eyes. He also explained how by
execution of pure transcendental service one can get rid of fruitive action
of accumulated work and how he transformed his material body into a
spiritual one. The spiritual body is alone able to enter into the spiritual
realm of the Lord, and no one but a pure devotee is eligible to enter into
the kingdom of God. All the mysteries of transcendental realization are
duly experienced by Narada Muni himself, and therefore by hearing such
an authority one can have some idea of the results of devotional life, which
are hardly delineated even in the original texts of the Vedas. In the Vedas
and Upanisads there are only indirect hints to all this. Nothing is directly
explained there, and therefore Srimad-Bhagavatam is the mature fruit of
all the Vedic trees of literatures.

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suta uvaca
evarn sambhasya bhagavan
narado vasavisutam
amantrya vinam ranayan
yayau yadrcchiko munih

siitah—Siita Gosvami; uvaca—said; evam—thus; sambhasya—addressing;
bhagavan—transcendentally powerful; ndaradah—Narada Muni; vdsavi—
