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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.13.8
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A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT 8
- tad vidhehi namas tubhyaṁ
- karmasv īḍyātma-śaktiṣu
- yat kṛtveha yaśo viṣvag
- amutra ca bhaved gatiḥ
tatthat — that; vidhehigive direction — give direction; namaḥmy obeisances — my obeisances; tubhyamunto you — unto you; karmasuin duties — in duties; īḍyaO worshipful one — O worshipful one; ātmawithin our working capacity-śaktiṣuwithin our working capacity — within our working capacity; yatwhich — which; kṛtvādoing — doing; ihain this world — in this world; yaśaḥfame — fame; viṣvakeverywhere — everywhere; amutrain the next world — in the next world; caand — and; bhavetit should be — it should be; gatiḥprogress — progress.
O worshipful one, please give us your direction for the execution of duty within our working capacity so that we can follow it for fame in this life and progress in the next.
Brahmā is the direct recipient of Vedic knowledge from the Personality of Godhead, and anyone discharging his entrusted duties in disciplic succession from Brahmā is sure to gain fame in this life and salvation in the next. The disciplic succession from Brahmā is called the Brahma-sampradāya, and it descends as follows: Brahmā, Nārada, Vyāsa, Madhva Muni (Pūrṇaprajña), Padmanābha, Nṛhari, Mādhava, Akṣobhya, Jayatīrtha, Jñānasindhu, Dayānidhi, Vidyānidhi, Rājendra, Jayadharma, Puruṣottama, Brahmaṇyatīrtha, Vyāsatīrtha, Lakṣmīpati, Mādhavendra Purī, Īśvara Purī, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, Svarūpa Dāmodara and Śrī Rūpa Gosvāmī and others, Śrī Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī, Kṛṣṇadāsa Gosvāmī, Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura, Viśvanātha Cakravartī, Jagannātha dāsa Bābājī, Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura, Gaurakiśora dāsa Bābājī, Śrīmad Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami.
This line of disciplic succession from Brahmā is spiritual, whereas the genealogical succession from Manu is material, but both are on the progressive march towards the same goal of Kṛṣṇa consciousness.