Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.13.8

tad vidhehi namas tubhyam

karmasv īdyātma-śaktishu

yat kritveha yaśo vishvag

amutra ca bhaved gatih

SYNONYMS

tat — that; vidhehi — give direction; namah — my obeisances; tubhyam — unto you; karmasu — in duties; īdya — O worshipful one; ātma-śaktishu — within our working capacity; yat — which; kritvā — doing; iha — in this world; yaśah — fame; vishvak — everywhere; amutra — in the next world; ca — and; bhavet — it should be; gatih — progress.

TRANSLATION

O worshipful one, please give us your direction for the execution of duty within our working capacity so that we can follow it for fame in this life and progress in the next.

PURPORT

Brahmā is the direct recipient of Vedic knowledge from the Personality of Godhead, and anyone discharging his entrusted duties in disciplic succession from Brahmā is sure to gain fame in this life and salvation in the next. The disciplic succession from Brahmā is called the Brahma-sampradāya, and it descends as follows: Brahmā, Nārada, Vyāsa, Madhva Muni (Pūrnaprajña), Padmanābha, Nrihari, Mādhava, Akshobhya, Jayatīrtha, Jñānasindhu, Dayānidhi, Vidyānidhi, Rājendra, Jayadharma, Purushottama, Brahmanyatīrtha, Vyāsatīrtha, Lakshmīpati, Mādhavendra Purī, Īśvara Purī, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, Svarūpa Dāmodara and Śrī Rūpa Gosvāmī and others, Śrī Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī, Krishnadāsa Gosvāmī, Narottama dāsa Thākura, Viśvanātha Cakravartī, Jagannātha dāsa Bābājī, Bhaktivinoda Thākura, Gaurakiśora dāsa Bābājī, Śrīmad Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami.

This line of disciplic succession from Brahmā is spiritual, whereas the genealogical succession from Manu is material, but both are on the progressive march towards the same goal of Krishna consciousness.

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