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| Canto 2: The Cosmic Manifestation | Chapter 9: Answers by Citing the Lord's Version |
Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.9.46
yathāsīt tad upākhyāste
praśnān anyāmś ca kritsnaśah
SYNONYMS
yat — what; uta — is, however; aham — I; tvayā — by you; prishtah — I am asked; vairājāt — from the universal form; purushāt — from the Personality of Godhead; idam — this world; yathā — as it; āsīt — was; tat — that; upākhyāste — I shall explain; praśnān — all the questions; anyān — others; ca — as well as; kritsnaśah — in great detail.
TRANSLATION
O King, your questions as to how the universe became manifested from the gigantic form of the Personality of Godhead, as well as other questions, I shall answer in detail by explanation of the four verses already mentioned.
PURPORT
As stated in the beginning of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, this great transcendental literature is the ripened fruit of the tree of Vedic knowledge, and therefore all questions that can be humanly possible regarding the universal affairs, beginning from its creation, are all answered in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. The answers depend only on the qualification of the person who explains them. The ten divisions of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, as explained by the great speaker Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī, are the limitation of all questions, and intelligent persons will derive all intellectual benefits from them by proper utilization.
Thus end the Bhaktivedanta purports of the Second Canto, Ninth Chapter, of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, entitled "Answers by Citing the Lord's Version."
Copyright © r The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International, Inc.
His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Founder Ācārya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness