Text 11] The Process of Creation 187

make progress in the transcendental scicnce of the Lord. And a bona fide
spiritual master like Sukadeva Gosvami does not speak about the Lord
only in the matter of His internal potencies, but also explains how He
associates with His external potencies.

The Lord’s pastimes, in the internal potency, are displayed in His activi-
ties in Vrndavana, but His external potential works are directed in His
features of Karanarnavasay: Visnu, Garbhodakasayi Visnu, and Ksiro-
dakagayi Visnu. Srila Vigvanatha Cakravarti offers his good counsel to the
interested Vaisnavas when he says that they should not only be interested
to hear about the Lord’s activities (like rasa-lild, etc.), but that they must
be keenly interested in His pastimes in His features of the Purusdvatdras in
connection with srsti-tattva, creational functions, following the examples
of Maharaja Pariksit, the ideal disciple, and Sukadeva Gosvami, the ideal
spiritual master.

TEXT 11
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stta uvaca
ity upadmantnito rajiia
gundnukathane hareh
hrsikesam anusmrtya
prativak tum pracakrame

siita uvaca—Sitta Gosvami said ;iti—thus; upamantritah—being requested;
rajia—by the King; guna-anukathane—in describing the transcendental
attributes of the Lord; hareh—of the Personality of Godhead; hrsikesam—
the master of the senses; anusmrtya—properly remembering; prativaktum—
just to reply; precakrame—executed the preliminaries.

TRANSLATION

Sita Gosvami said, When Sukadeva Gosvami was thus requested by the
King to describe the creative energy of the Personality of Godhead, the
former then systematically remembered the master of the senses [Sri
Krsna], and to reply properly he spoke thus.
