Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.19.10

tam bhagavān nārado varnāśramavatībhir bhāratībhih prajābhir bhagavat-proktābhyām sāńkhya-yogābhyām bhagavad-anubhāvopavarnanam sāvarner upadekshyamānah parama-bhakti-bhāvenopasarati idam cābhigrināti

SYNONYMS

tam — Him (Nara-Nārāyana); bhagavān — the most powerful saintly person; nāradah — the great sage Nārada; varna-āśrama-vatībhih — by followers of the institution of the four varnas and four āśramas; bhāratībhih — of the land known as Bhārata-varsha (India); prajābhih — who are the inhabitants; bhagavat-proktābhyām — which was stated by the Supreme Personality of Godhead; sāńkhya — by the sāńkhya-yoga system (the analytical study of material conditions); yogābhyām — by practice of the yoga system; bhagavat-anubhāva-upavarnanam — which describes the process of God realization; sāvarneh — unto Sāvarni Manu; upadekshyamānah — instructing; parama-bhakti-bhāvena — in greatly ecstatic loving service to the Lord; upasarati — serves the Lord; idam — this; ca — and; abhigrināti — chants.

TRANSLATION

In his own book, known as Nārada Pañcarātra, Bhagavān Nārada has very vividly described how to work to achieve the ultimate goal of life — devotion — through knowledge and through execution of the mystic yoga system. He has also described the glories of the Lord, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The great sage Nārada instructed the tenets of this transcendental literature to Sāvarni Manu in order to teach those inhabitants of Bhārata-varsha who strictly follow the principles of varnāśrama-dharma how to achieve the devotional service of the Lord. Thus Nārada Muni, along with the other inhabitants of Bhārata-varsha, always engages in the service of Nara-Nārāyana, and he chants as follows.

PURPORT

Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu has clearly declared:

bhārata-bhūmite haila manushya-janma yāra

janma sārthaka kari' kara para-upakāra

[Cc. Ādi 9.41]

The real success or fulfillment of the mission of human life can be achieved in India, Bhārata-varsha, because in Bhārata-varsha the purpose of life and the method for achieving success are evident. People should take advantage of the opportunity afforded by Bhārata-varsha, and this is especially so for those who are following the principles of varnāśrama-dharma. If we do not take to the principles of varnāśrama-dharma by accepting the four social orders (brāhmana, kshatriya, vaiśya and śūdra) and the four orders of spiritual life (brahmacārī, grihastha, vānaprastha and sannyāsa), there can be no question of success in life. Unfortunately, because of the influence of Kali-yuga, everything is now being lost. The inhabitants of Bhārata-varsha are gradually becoming degraded mlecchas and yavanas. How then will they teach others? Therefore, this Krishna consciousness movement has been started not only for the inhabitants of Bhārata-varsha but for all the people of the world, as announced by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. There is still time, and if the inhabitants of Bhārata-varsha take this movement of Krishna consciousness seriously, the entire world will be saved from gliding down to a hellish condition. The Krishna consciousness movement follows the process of pañcarātrika-vidhi and that of bhāgavata-vidhi simultaneously, so that people can take advantage of the movement and make their lives successful.

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