Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.87.46

śrī-nārada uvāca

namas tasmai bhagavate

krishnāyāmala-kīrtaye

yo dhatte sarva-bhūtānām

abhavāyośatīh kalāh

SYNONYMS

śrī-nāradah uvāca — Śrī Nārada said; namah — obeisances; tasmai — to Him; bhagavate — the Supreme Lord; krishnāya — Krishna; amala — spotless; kīrtaye — whose glories; yah — who; dhatte — manifests; sarva — of all; bhūtānām — living beings; abhavāya — for the liberation; uśatīh — all attractive; kalāh — expansions.

TRANSLATION

Śrī Nārada said: I offer My obeisances to Him of spotless fame, the Supreme Lord Krishna, who manifests His all-attractive personal expansions so that all living beings can achieve liberation.

PURPORT

Śrīla Śrīdhara Svāmī remarks that Nārada's addressing Śrī Nārāyana Rishi as an incarnation of Lord Krishna is perfectly appropriate, in accordance with the following statement of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (1.3.28): ete cāmśa-kalāh pumsah/ krishnas tu bhagavān svayam. "All of the above-mentioned incarnations [including Nārāyana Rishi] are either plenary portions or portions of the plenary portions of the Lord, but Lord Śrī Krishna is the original Personality of Godhead."

In his commentary on this verse, Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī has Lord Nārāyana Rishi asking, "Why do you offer obeisances to Krishna instead of Me, your guru, who am standing here before you?" Nārada explains his action by saying that Lord Krishna assumes all-attractive incarnations like Śrī Nārāyana Rishi to end the conditioned souls' material life. By offering obeisances to Lord Krishna, therefore, Nārada honors Nārāyana Rishi and all other manifestations of Godhead as well.

This prayer of Nārada's is the essential nectar he has extracted from the personified Vedas' prayers, which themselves were churned from the sweet ocean of all secrets of the Vedas and Purānas. As the Gopāla-tāpanī Upanishad (Pūrva 50) recommends, tasmāt krishna eva paro devas tam dhyāyet tam rasayet tam bhajet tam yajed iti. om tat sat: "Therefore Krishna is the Supreme Godhead. One should meditate on Him, relish the taste of reciprocating loving exchanges with Him, worship Him and offer sacrifice to Him."

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