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Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.6.5
bhikshubhir vipravasite
vijñānādeshtribhir mama
vartamāno vayasy ādye
SYNONYMS
nāradah uvāca — Śrī Nārada said; bhikshubhih — by the great sages; vipravasite — having departed for other places; vijñāna — scientific spiritual knowledge; ādeshtribhih — those who imparted unto me; mama — mine; vartamānah — present; vayasi ādye — before this life; tatah — thereafter; etat — this much; akārasham — performed.
TRANSLATION
Śrī Nārada said: The great sages, who had imparted scientific knowledge of transcendence to me, departed for other places, and I had to pass my life in this way.
PURPORT
In his previous life, when Nāradajī was impregnated with spiritual knowledge by the grace of the great sages, there was a tangible change in his life, although he was only a boy of five years. That is an important symptom visible after initiation by the bona fide spiritual master. Actual association of devotees brings about a quick change in life for spiritual realization. How it so acted upon the previous life of Śrī Nārada Muni is described by and by in this chapter.
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