Chapter
1:
Questions
by the Sages
(4)
In the forest of Naimishâranya, a spot favored by
Vishnu, sages headed by the sage S'aunaka assembled for a
thousand-year sacrifice for the sake of the Lord of
heaven and the devotees on earth.
Chapter
2:
Divinity
and Divine Service
(5)
Your questions about Lord Krishna are of relevance for
the welfare of the world because they satisfy the true
self. (6) For mankind it is certainly the best way to
attain to uninterrupted service to the transcendental
without further motives. (7) Serving Krishna this way one
will find detachment and causeless knowledge. (8) What
mankind does in its duties according to each his own
position, is useless labor leading nowhere, if it does
not lead to the message of this attraction to
God.
Chapter
3:
Krishna
is the Source of all Incarnations
(3)
It is imagined that
the purusha, from the excellence of His existence,
expanded into all the
worlds.
Chapter
4:
The
Appearance of S'rî Nârada
(5) Seeing the sage
Vyâsa following his son, naked bathing beauties
covered their bodies out of shyness, whereas
astonishingly asked of his son they replied him that they
did not do so for him as he regarded them purely without
sexual discrimination.
(32)
While
Krishna-dvaipâyana Vyâsa was regretfully
thinking this way of his shortcomings, Nârada, whom
I spoke of before, reached his
cottage.
Chapter
5:
Nârada's
Instructions on S'rîmad Bhâgavatam for
Vyâsadeva
(9)
Although you, great
sage, repeatedly were writing for the sake of the four
principles of religion, you have not been doing so for
the sake of Vâsudeva.
(23) In the previous
millennium I was born from the maidservant of certain
followers of this conclusion [Vedânta] and
was just a boy engaged in their service while living
together in the months of the rainy season.
Chapter
6:
Conversation
Between Nârada and Vyâsadeva
(9)
S'rî Nârada said: 'The great sages gave me
the transcendental knowledge I have at present and in my
previous life I had to live by it after they had
departed.
