Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto the son of Vyāsadeva, Śukadeva Gosvāmī, who destroys of all sin, and who, though fixed in his own bliss with no distractions, became attracted to the pastimes of Kṛṣṇa and mercifully spread the Bhāgavatam which describes Kṛṣṇa and reveals the rasa of his pastimes. Having offered respects of Kṛṣṇa, he offers respects to his guru. Śukadeva’s heart was completely filled (nibhṛtam) with bliss of Brahman. Because of that, his mind was devoid of other subjects. But though he had achieved this state, he became strongly attracted by the pleasing pastimes of Kṛṣṇa. Thus his mind was drawn away from Brahman and he became capable of tasting rasa. He realized that the taste of Kṛṣṇa’s pastimes was sweeter than Brahman. He became fixed in those pastimes. The rasa of Kṛṣṇa’s pastimes was not an obstacle which broke his samādhi. By that taste he could have striven for the goal of samādhi but he did not do that. Rather, by his mercy, desiring that others should taste Kṛṣṇa’s pastimes, he spread the Bhāgavatam which reveals the nature of the rasa of the pastimes (tattva-dīpam). harer guṇākṣipta-matir bhagavān bādarāyaṇiḥ adhyagān mahad ākhyānaṁ nityaṁ viṣṇu-jana-priyaḥ Śukadeva, the son of Vyāsa, whose mind became disrupted from brahman trance by the qualities of Kṛṣṇa, and who became attracted to the Vaiṣṇavas, studied this great Bhāgavatam. SB 1.7.11 pariniṣṭhito 'pi nairguṇya uttama-śloka-līlayā gṛhīta-cetā rājarṣe ākhyānaṁ yad adhītavān Though I was fixed in Brahman and beyond the guṇas, my mind became attracted to the pastimes of the Lord. I thus learned his pastimes SB 2.1.9 Thus ends the commentary on Twelfth Chapter of the Twelfth Canto of the Bhāgavatam for the pleasure of the devotees, in accordance with the previous ācāryas.