SB (1962) Fifth Chapter - Sri Narada's instructions on Srimad Bhagwatam for Vyasdeva
SB 1.5.1 (1962): Suta Goswami said, "Thus the sage amongst the gods (Narada) who was comfortably seated addressed the Rishi amongst the Brahmin (unto Vedavyasa) apparently smilings."
SB 1.5.2 (1962): Addressing Vyasdeva, the son of Parashara, Narada enquired whether yourself is satisfied by identifying the body or the mind as the object of self realisation?
SB 1.5.3 (1962): Your enquires were full and studies also fulfilled well and there is no doubt about it as you have prepared the great and wonderful work Mahabharata which is full of all Vedic sequences elaborately explained.
SB 1.5.4 (1962): You have fully deliberated upon impersonal Brahman also and the knowledge derived also. Inspite of all these why should you be dispondent thinking that your self is undone oh my sir.
SB 1.5.5 (1962): Vyasdeva replied that all that He (Narada) had said about Him (Vyasa) were perfectly correct. Inspite of all these, His self was not pacified. He therefore asked Narada who was the man of unlimited knowledge on account of His being the offspring of one (Brahman) who is self-born (without any mundane father and mother) on the root of the cause.
SB 1.5.6 (1962): My Lord! everything that is mysterious is also known to you because the creator and destroyer of the material world and maintainer of the spiritual world,—the original Personality of Godhead who is transcendental to the three modes of material nature,—is worshipped by you.
SB 1.5.7 (1962): Your goodness can go around everywhere in the three worlds like the Sun and can penetrate into the internal region of everyone as good as the air and as such you are as good as the all pervasive super-soul. Kindly therefore find out the deficiency in me although I am absorbed in transcendence under disciplinary regulations and in vow.
SB 1.5.8 (1962): Sri Narada said that you have practically not broadcast the sublime and spotless glories of the personality of Godhead. Anything that does not satisfy the transcendental senses of the Lord, is considered worthless philosophy.
SB 1.5.9 (1962): As you the great sage have very broadly described the four principles beginning with religious performances, so you have not described glories of the Supreme Personality Vasudeva.
SB 1.5.10 (1962): The set of vocabulary, in which there is no description of the glories of the Lord which can sanctify the whole universal atmosphere,—is considered by the saintly persons, as the pilgrimage of the crows where the all perfect persons do not derive any pleasure on account of their being inhabitant of the transcedental abode.
SB 1.5.11 (1962): On the other hand the literature which is full with description of transcendental glories of the Name, Fame, Forms, Pastimes etc. of the Unlimited supreme Lord,—is a different creation of transcendental vocabulary all meant for bringing about a revolution in the impious life of a misdirected civilization of the world. Such transcendental literatures even though irregularly composed, is heard, sung and accepted by the purified men who are thoroughly honest.
SB 1.5.12 (1962): Knowledge of self-realisation even though it is freed from all material affinity, does not look well on account of being devoid of the conception of the infallible (God). Where is then any utility of fruitive activities which are naturally painful from the very beginning and transient by nature,—if they are not utilised for the devotional service of the Lord.
SB 1.5.13 (1962): Oh Vyasdeva your vision is completely perfect. Your good fame is spotless. You are fixed up in vow and situated in truthfulness. And as such you can think of the pastimes of the Lord in trance just for the liberation of the people in general from all material bindings.
SB 1.5.14 (1962): Anything that you may have desired to describe under separate vision apart from that of the Lord, will react in different forms and names and result in oscillating the mind like the boat disturbed by the wind which cannot have any place to rest.
SB 1.5.15 (1962): The people in general are naturally inclined to enjoy and you have encouraged them in that way in the name of religiosity which is verily condemned and mostly unreasonable. Because they are guided under your instruction, they will accept such activities in the name of religion and will hardly care for their prohibition.
SB 1.5.16 (1962): The Supreme Lord is unlimited. Only a very expert personality deserves to understand this knowledge in spiritual values and that also being retired from the activities of material happiness. Therefore those, who are not so well placed on account of being attached with material qualities, may be shown the ways of transcendental realisation by your goodness by describing the transcendental activities of the Supreme Lord.
SB 1.5.17 (1962): One who might have forshaken one's material occupational engagements and be engaged in the devotional service of the Lord, may sometimes fall down in immature conditions and still he has no risk of being unsuccessful. On the other hand a nondevotee may be fully engaged in his occupational duties and yet does not gain anything.
SB 1.5.18 (1962): Persons who are actually intelligent and philosophically inclined should endeavour only for that purposeful end which is not obtainable wandering even from the topmost planet (Brahmaloke) down to the lowest planet (Patala). So far happiness derived from sense enjoyment is concerned, it can be obtained automatically in course of time as we obtain progressively miseries even though we do not desire for them.
SB 1.5.19 (1962): My dear Vyasa, a devotee of the Lord Sri Krishna even though falls down sometimes some how or other, certainly he does not undergo the terms of material existence like others (the fruitive workers etc.) because a person who has once relished the mellow of the lotus feet of the Lord cannot go otherwise remembering the ecstacy again and again.
SB 1.5.20 (1962): The Supreme Lord Personality of Godhead is Himself this cosmos and still He is aloof from it because from Him only this cosmic manifestation has emanated; unto Him it rests and unto Him it enters after annihilation. Your goodself knows all about this and still I have explained just a synopsis only.
SB 1.5.21 (1962): Your goodness has the perfect vision and you can yourself know the Supersoul Personality of Godhead because you are persent as the plenary portion of the Lord. Although you are birthless, still you have appeared on this earth for the welbeing of all people. Please therefore describe the transcendental pastimes of the Supreme Personality of Godhead Sri Krishna, more vividly.
SB 1.5.22 (1962): Learned circles recognised by all, have concluded it positively that infallible purposeful interest of advancement of knowledge namely austerities, study of the Vedas, sacrifice, chanting of the hymns or charity all culminate in the transcendental description of the Lord who is defined by chosen poetry.
SB 1.5.23 (1962): Oh the muni, in the last millennium i.e., in my past life I was born as the son of a certain maid servant engaged in the service of the Brahmins following the principles of Vedanta. When they were living together during the four months of the rainy season, I was then engaged in their personal service.
SB 1.5.24 (1962): Those followers of the Vedanta blessed me with their causeless mercy although they are impartial by nature. So far I was concerned, I was sense-controlled without any attachment for sporting habits even though I was only a boy and besides that I was not naughty neither I used to speak more than requirement.
SB 1.5.25 (1962): Once only by their permission I took up the remnants of their foodsuff and by doing so all my sins were at once eliminated. Thus being engaged when I became purified by the heart at that time the very nature of the transcendentalist became attractive for me.
SB 1.5.26 (1962): Oh Vyasdesa, in that association and by the mercy of the great Vedantist describing the attractive activities of Lord Krishna, I could receive them by aural reception. And thus hearing attentively step by step my taste for hearing the Personality of Godhead became manifested.
SB 1.5.27 (1962): Oh great Sage, as soon as I got some taste in the Personality of Godhead, at once my attention became uniterrupted in hearing about my Lord. And by such development of taste I could realise that by my ignorance only I had accepted the gross and subtle covering upon me and the Lord both of us being transcendental.
SB 1.5.28 (1962): Thus during the two seasons of the rainy as well as the autumn, myself got the opportunity of hearing the great-soul sages chanting constantly unadulterated glories of the Lord Hari,—the flow of my devotional service began, vanishing away coverings of the modes of passion and ignorance.
SB 1.5.29 (1962): I was very much attached to them, gentle in behaviour, and my all sins became eradicated by their service; in my heart I had strong faith in them, I had subjugated the senses and I was strictly following them with body and mind.
SB 1.5.30 (1962): The Bhaktivedantas who are very kind upon the poor hearted souls while leaving the place instructed me that most confidential subject which is instructed by the Personality of Godhead Himself.
SB 1.5.31 (1962): By that confidential part of knowledge, I could understand clearly the influence of the energy of the Lord Sri Krishna the creator maintainer and annihilator of everything and knowing that they can go back to Him or can personally meet Him.
SB 1.5.32 (1962): Oh Brahmin Vyasdeva, it is decided by the learned that the best remedial measure for removing all troubles and miseries is to dedicate one's activities in the service of the Supreme Lord Personality of Godhead (Sri Krishna) .
SB 1.5.33 (1962): Oh the good soul, does not a thing therapeutically treated cure a disease which was caused by the same thing?
SB 1.5.34 (1962): Thus when all activities of the human being become dedicated unto the service of the Lord, the activities which are causal to perpetual bondage, become the killing source of the tree of work.
SB 1.5.35 (1962): Whatever work is done here in this life for the satisfaction of the mission of the Lord is termed as bhaktiyoga or transcendental loving service of the Lord and as such what is called knowledge become a concomitant factor.
SB 1.5.36 (1962): While performing duties in pursuance of the order of Sri Krishna the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the performer certainly repeatedly takes into the mind the qualities, names of Him and constantly remembers Him.
SB 1.5.37 (1962): Let us all chant the glories of the Vasudeva along with His plenary expansions Pradyumna, Aniruddha and Samkarshan.
SB 1.5.38 (1962): As such one who worships the Supreme Personality of Godhead Vishnu who has no material Form,—in the Form of transcendental sound representation is the actual seer.
SB 1.5.39 (1962): (Sri Narada Muni said) Oh Brahmin, thus I was endowed with first the transcendental knowledge of the Lord as they are inculcated in the confidential part ef the Vedas, then spiritual opulences and then His intimate loving service, by the Supreme Lord Krishna.
SB 1.5.40 (1962): Please therefore, describe the Almighty Lord's activities which you have learnt by your vast knowledge of the Vedas; because that will satisfy the hankerings of the great learned men and at the same time will mitigate the miseries of the common mass of people suffering from the material pangs always and there is no other way to get out of them.