Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.3.13

śaunaka uvāca

ity abhivyāhṛtaḿ rājā

niśamya bharatarṣabhaḥ

kim anyat pṛṣṭavān bhūyo

vaiyāsakim ṛṣiḿ kavim

SYNONYMS

śaunakaḥ uvāca — Śaunaka said; iti — thus; abhivyāhṛtam — all that was spoken; rājā — the King; niśamya — by hearing; bharata-ṛṣabhaḥ — Mahārāja Parīkṣit; kim — what; anyat — more; pṛṣṭavān — did he inquire from him; bhūyaḥ — again; vaiyāsakim — unto the son of Vyāsadeva; ṛṣim — one who is well versed; kavim — poetic.

TRANSLATION

Śaunaka said: The son of Vyāsadeva, Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī, was a highly learned sage and was able to describe things in a poetic manner. What did Mahārāja Parīkṣit again inquire from him after hearing all that he had said?

PURPORT

A pure devotee of the Lord automatically develops all godly qualities, and some of the prominent features of those qualities are as follows: he is kind, peaceful, truthful, equable, faultless, magnanimous, mild, clean, nonpossessive, a well-wisher to all, satisfied, surrendered to Kṛṣṇa, without hankering, simple, fixed, self-controlled, a balanced eater, sane, mannerly, prideless, grave, sympathetic, friendly, poetic, expert and silent. Out of these twenty-six prominent features of a devotee, as described by Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja in his Caitanya-caritāmṛta, the qualification of being poetic is especially mentioned herein in relation to Śukadeva Gosvāmī. The presentation of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam by his recitation is the highest poetic contribution. He was a self-realized learned sage. In other words, he was a poet amongst the sages.

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