334 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 2, Ch. 6
pradhanyatah—chiefly; yan—all those; rse—O Narada; amananti—worship;
lila—pastimes; avatdran—incarnations; purusasya—of the Personality of
Godhead; bhiimnah—the Supreme; apiyatam—in order to be relished by
you; karna—ears; kasdya—foul matter; sosan—that which evaporates;
anukramisye—shall state one after another; te—they; iman—as they are in
my heart; supesan—all pleasing to hear.
TRANSLATION
O Narada, now I shall state, one after another, the transcendental
incarnations of the Lord, known as Ila avataras. Hearing of their activities
counteracts all foul matters accumulated in the ear. These pastimes are
pleasing to hear and are to be relished. Therefore they are in my heart.”
PURPORT
As it was said in the beginning of Srimad-Bhagavatam (Bhag. 1.5.8), one
cannot be fully satisfied by hearing unless and until one is given a chance
to hear of the transcendental activities of the Lord. So Brahm4ji is also
trying, in this verse, to stress the importance of narrating the transcenden-
tal pastimes of the Lord as He comes and manifests Himself here on the
surface of the material planets. Every living entity has a tendency to hear
pleasing messages, and as such almost every one of us is inclined to hear
news and talks broadcast by the radio stations. But the difficulty is that
no one is satisfied at heart by hearing all those messages. The cause of such
dissatisfaction is the incompatibility of the message with the innermost
stratum of the living soul. This transcendental literature is especially pre-
pared by Srila Vyasadeva to give the utmost satisfaction to the people in
general by narration of the activities of the Lord, as instructed by Sri
Narada Muni to Srila Vyasadeva. Such activities of the Lord are principally
of two varieties. One concerns the mundane manifestation of the material
creative force, and the other deals with His pastimes in the form of dif-
ferent incarnations in terms of the time and place. There are innumerable
incarnations of the Lord, like the waves of the river flowing constantly in
and out. Less intelligent persons take more interest in the creative forces of
the Lord in the material world, and, being disconnected from their rela-
tionship with the Lord, they put forward many theories of the creation in
the name of scientific research. The devotees of the Lord, however, know
well how the creative forces work concurrently by the action and reaction
