Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.5.39
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
Communion with the Lord by transmission of the transcendental sound is nondifferent from the whole spirit Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa. It is a completely perfect method for approaching the Lord. By such pure contact with the Lord, without offense of material conceptions (numbering ten), the devotee can rise above the material plane to understand the inner meaning of the Vedic literatures, including the Lord’s existence in the transcendental realm. The Lord reveals His identity gradually to one who has unflinching faith, both in the spiritual master and in the Lord. After this, the devotee is endowed with mystic opulences, which are eight in number. And above all, the devotee is accepted in the confidential entourage of the Lord and is entrusted with specific service of the Lord through the agency of the spiritual master. A pure devotee is more interested in serving the Lord than in showing an exhibition of the mystic powers dormant in him. Śrī Nārada has explained all these from his personal experience, and one can obtain all the facilities which Śrī Nārada obtained by perfecting the chanting process of the sound representation of the Lord. There is no bar for chanting this transcendental sound by anyone, provided it is received through Nārada’s representative, coming down by the chain of disciplic succession, or the paramparā system.
Sva-nigamam (nigama—going within) means instructions given by the Lord, given in his own confidential version of the Vedas (Pañcarātra). First the Lord gave realization of Himself (jñānam). Then he gave powers, such as aṇima and other siddhis. Then knowing that I was unattached to those powers, the Lord gave me great prema for him (svasmin bhāvam adāt). The intelligent persons can understand that then Vyāsa prayed to Nārada, “Please teach me this mantra” and then learned this same mantra.
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