Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.84.30

śrī-nārada uvāca

nāti-citram idam viprā

vasudevo bubhutsayā

krishnam matvārbhakam yan nah

pricchati śreya ātmanah

SYNONYMS

śrī-nāradah uvāca — Śrī Nārada said; na — not; ati — very; citram — wonderful; idam — this; viprāh — O brāhmanas; vasudevah — Vasudeva; bubhutsayā — with the desire of learning; krishnam — Lord Krishna; matvā — thinking; arbhakam — a boy; yat — the fact that; nah — from us; pricchati — he asks; śreyah — about the highest good; ātmanah — for himself.

TRANSLATION

Śrī Nārada Muni said: O brāhmanas, it is not so amazing that in his eagerness to know, Vasudeva has asked us about his ultimate benefit, for he considers Krishna a mere boy.

PURPORT

Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī relates Nārada's thoughts: Śrī Nārada understood how Vasudeva, in line with his mood of pretending to be an ordinary householder, asked the sages about karma-yoga, although he had already attained spiritual goals even great yogīs and rishis cannot achieve. But Nārada was still concerned that Vasudeva might create an awkward mood by treating Lord Krishna as a mere child in the presence of all the sages. Nārada and the other sages felt obliged to maintain their attitude of reverence toward Lord Krishna, so how could they ignore Him and presume to answer Vasudeva themselves? To avoid this embarrassment, Nārada took this opportunity to remind everyone present of Śrī Krishna' s absolute supremacy.

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