Text 24] The Process of Creation 217

namas tasmai bhagavate
vasudevaya vedhase

papur jidnam ayam saumya
yan-mukhaémburuhasavam

namah—my obeisances; tasmai—unto him; bhagavate—unto the Person-
ality of Godhead; vaésudevéya—unto Vasudeva or His incarnations; vedhase—
the compiler of the Vedic literatures; papuh—drunk; jidnam—knowledge;
ayam—this Vedic knowledge; saumyah—the devotees, especially the
consorts of Lord Krsna; yat—from whose; mukha-amburuha—the lotus-
like mouth; dsavam—nectar from this mouth.

TRANSLATION

I offer my respectful obeisances unto the incarnation of Vasudeva,
Srila Vyasadeva, who compiled the Vedic scriptures. The pure devotees
drink up the nectarean transcendental knowledge dropping from the
lotus-like mouth of the Lord.

PURPORT

In pursuance of the specific utterance vedhase, or the compiler of the
system of transcendental knowledge, Srila Sridhara Svami has commented
that the respectful obeisances are offered to Srila Vyasadeva, who is the
incarnation of Vasudeva. Srila Jiva Gosvami has agreed to this, but Srila
Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakur has made a further advance, namely that
the nectar from the mouth of Lord Krsna is transferred to His different
consorts, and thus they learn the finer arts of music, dance, dressing,
decorations and all such things which are relished by the Lord. Such music,
dance and decorations enjoyed by the Lord are certainly not anything
mundane, because the Lord is addressed in the very beginning as para, or
transcendental. This transcendental knowledge is unknown to the forgotten
conditioned souls. Srila Vyasadeva, who is the incarnation of the Lord,
thus compiled the Vedic literatures to revive the lost memory of the
conditioned souls about their eternal relation with the Lord. One should
therefore try to understand the Vedic scriptures from the lotus-like mouth
of Vyasadeva, or Sukadeva, the nectar transferred by the Lord to His
consorts in the conjugal humor. By gradual development of transcendental
knowledge, one can rise to the stage of the transcendental arts of music
