Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Srimad Bhagavatam 12.13.19

kasmai yena vibhasito 'yam atulo jnana-pradipah pura

tad-rupena ca naradaya munaye krishnaya tad-rupina

yogindraya tad-atmanatha bhagavad-rataya karunyatas

tac chuddham vimalam visokam amritam satyam param dhimahi

SYNONYMS

kasmai -- unto Brahma; yena -- by whom; vibhasitah -- thoroughly revealed; ayam -- this; atulah -- incomparable; jnana -- of transcendental knowledge; pradipah -- the torchlight; pura -- long ago; tat-rupena -- in the form of Brahma; ca -- and; naradaya -- to Narada; munaye -- the great sage; krishnaya -- to Krishna-dvaipayana Vyasa; tat-rupina -- in the form of Narada; yogi-indraya -- to the best of yogis, Sukadeva; tat-atmana -- as Narada; atha -- then; bhagavat-rataya -- to Parikshit Maharaja; karunyatah -- out of mercy; tat -- that; suddham -- pure; vimalam -- uncontaminated; visokam -- free from misery; amritam -- immortal; satyam -- upon the truth; param -- supreme; dhimahi -- I meditate.

TRANSLATION

I meditate upon that pure and spotless Supreme Absolute Truth, who is free from suffering and death and who in the beginning personally revealed this incomparable torchlight of knowledge to Brahma. Brahma then spoke it to the sage Narada, who narrated it to Krishna-dvaipayana Vyasa. Srila Vyasa revealed this Bhagavatam to the greatest of sages, Sukadeva Gosvami, and Sukadeva mercifully spoke it to Maharaja Parikshit.

PURPORT

The first verse of Srimad-Bhagavatam states, satyam param dhimahi -- "I meditate upon the Supreme Truth" -- and now at the conclusion of this magnificent transcendental literature, the same auspicious sounds are vibrated. The words tad-rupena, tad-rupina and tad-atmana in this verse clearly indicate that Lord Krishna Himself originally spoke Srimad-Bhagavatam to Brahma and then continued to speak this literature through the agency of Narada Muni, Dvaipayana Vyasa, Sukadeva Gosvami and other great sages. In other words, whenever saintly devotees vibrate Srimad-Bhagavatam, it is to be understood that Lord Krishna Himself is speaking the Absolute Truth through the agency of His pure representatives. Anyone who submissively hears this literature from the Lord's bona fide devotees transcends his conditioned state and becomes qualified to meditate upon the Absolute Truth and serve Him.

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