Text 7] Bhagavatam is the Answer 557
tattvavidas tattvam yaj jiadnam advayam, brahmeti paramatmeti bhagavan
iti Sabdyate, called Param Brahma, Paramatma or Bhagavan. The word iti
used here in the verse completes the synonyms and thus indicates Bhagavan.
This will be further explained in the later verses, but this Bhagavan means
ultimately Lord Krsna because the Srimad-Bhagavatam has already accepted
the Supreme Personality of Godhead as Krsna. Krsnas tu bhagavan svayam,
The original source of all energies or the summum bonum is the Absolute
Truth which is called Param Brahma, etc., and Bhagavan is the last word of
the Absolute Truth. But even with the synonyms of Bhagavan, such as
Narayana, Visnu, Purusa, etc., the last word is Krsna, as confirmed in the
Bhagavad-gita: aham sarvasya prabhavo mattah sarvam pravartate, etc.
Besides that, the Srimad-Bhagavatam is the representation of Lord Krsna
as sound incarnation of the Lord. Krsne sva-dhamopagate dharma-
jianadibhih saha/ kalau nasta-drsam esah puranarko’dhunoditah. Thus by
general conclusion Lord Krsna is the ultimate source of all energies, and the
word Krsna means that. And to explain Krsna or the science of Krsna, the
Srimad-Bhagavatam has been prepared. In the First Canto of Srimad-
Bhagavatam this truth is indicated in the questions and answers by Sita
Gosvami and great sages like Saunaka, etc., and in the First and Second
Chapters of the canto this is explained. In the Third Chapter this subject
is more explicit, and in the Fourth Chapter even more explicit. In the
Second Canto the Absolute Truth as the Personality of Godhead is further
emphasized, and the indication is the Supreme Lord Krsna. The summary
of Srimad-Bhaégavatam in four verses, as we have already discussed, is
succinct. This Supreme Personality of Godhead in the ultimate issue is
confirmed by Brahma in his Brahma-samhitad as isvarah paramah krsnah
sac-cid-Gnanda-vigrahah. So it is concluded in the Third Canto of the
Srimad-Bhagavatam. The complete subject matter is elaborately explained
in the Tenth and Eleventh Cantos of the Srimad-Bhagavatam. In the matter
of changes of the Manus of manvantaras, such as the Svayambhuva manvan-
tara and Caksusa manvantara, as they are discussed in the Third, Fourth,
Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Cantos of Srimad-Bhagavatam, Lord Krsna is
indicated. In the Eighth Canto Vaivasvata manvantara explains the same
subject indirectly, and in the Ninth Canto the same purport is there. In the
Twelfth Canto the same is further explained, specifically regarding the
different incarnations of the Lord. Thus it is concluded by studying the
complete Srimad-Bhagavatam that Lord Sri Krsna is the ultimate summum
bonum, or the ultimate source of all energy. And according to the grades
of worshipers, the indications of the nomenclature may be differently
explained as Narayana, Brahma, Paramatma, etc.
