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Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Srimad Bhagavatam 1.1.23
SYNONYMS
bruhi -- please tell; yoga-isvare -- the Lord of all mystic powers; krishne -- Lord Krishna; brahmanye -- the Absolute Truth; dharma -- religion; varmani -- protector; svam -- own; kashtham -- abode; adhuna -- nowadays; upete -- having gone away; dharmah -- religion; kam -- unto whom; saranam -- shelter; gatah -- gone.
TRANSLATION
Since Sri Krishna, the Absolute Truth, the master of all mystic powers, has departed for His own abode, please tell us to whom the religious principles have now gone for shelter.
PURPORT
Essentially religion is the prescribed codes enunciated by the Personality of Godhead Himself. Whenever there is gross misuse or neglect of the principles of religion, the Supreme Lord appears Himself to restore religious principles. This is stated in Bhagavad-gita. Here the sages of Naimisharanya are inquiring about these principles. The reply to this question is given later. The Srimad-Bhagavatam is the transcendental sound representation of the Personality of Godhead, and thus it is the full representation of transcendental knowledge and religious principles.
Thus end the Bhaktivedanta purports of the First Canto, First Chapter, of the Srimad-Bhagavatam, entitled "Questions by the Sages."
Copyright (c) The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International, Inc.
His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder Acarya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness