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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.6.5
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A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT 5
- nārada uvāca
- bhikṣubhir vipravasite
- vijñānādeṣṭṛbhir mama
- vartamāno vayasy ādye
- tata etad akāraṣam
nāradaḥŚrī Nārada said uvācaŚrī Nārada said — Śrī Nārada said; bhikṣubhiḥby the great sages — by the great sages; vipravasitehaving departed for other places — having departed for other places; vijñānascientific spiritual knowledge — scientific spiritual knowledge; ādeṣṭṛbhiḥthose who imparted unto me — those who imparted unto me; mamamine — mine; vartamānaḥpresent — present; vayasibefore this life ādyebefore this life — before this life; tataḥthereafter — thereafter; etatthis much — this much; akāraṣamperformed — performed.
Śrī Nārada said: The great sages, who had imparted scientific knowledge of transcendence to me, departed for other places, and I had to pass my life in this way.
In his previous life, when Nāradajī was impregnated with spiritual knowledge by the grace of the great sages, there was a tangible change in his life, although he was only a boy of five years. That is an important symptom visible after initiation by the bona fide spiritual master. Actual association of devotees brings about a quick change in life for spiritual realization. How it so acted upon the previous life of Śrī Nārada Muni is described by and by in this chapter.