Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.4.33

tam abhijñāya sahasā

pratyutthāyāgataḿ muniḥ

pūjayām āsa vidhivan

nāradaḿ sura-pūjitam

SYNONYMS

tam abhijñāya — seeing the good fortune of his (Nārada's) arrival; sahasā — all of a sudden; pratyutthāya — getting up; āgatam — arrived at; muniḥ — Vyāsadeva; pūjayām āsa — worship; vidhi-vat — with the same respect as offered to Vidhi (Brahmā); nāradam — to Nārada; sura-pūjitam — worshiped by the demigods.

TRANSLATION

At the auspicious arrival of Śrī Nārada, Śrī Vyāsadeva got up respectfully and worshiped him, giving him veneration equal to that given to Brahmājī, the creator.

PURPORT

Vidhi means Brahmā, the first created living being. He is the original student as well as professor of the Vedas. He learned it from Śrī Kṛṣṇa and taught Nārada first. So Nārada is the second ācārya in the line of spiritual disciplic succession. He is the representative of Brahmā, and therefore he is respected exactly like Brahmā, the father of all vidhis (regulations); similarly all other successive disciples in the chain are also equally respected as representatives of the original spiritual master.

Thus end the Bhaktivedanta purports of the First Canto, Fourth Chapter, of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, entitled "The Appearance of Śrī Nārada."

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