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may be, there are attractions enough for the frail sons of Manu,
abounding in passions and desires. What can then bind a man to the
higher planes and the highest Purusha of those planes or Bhagavan?
It is only a description of the grandeur and the glory of those planes
and of Bhagavan. Such description begets Bhakti or holy attach-
ment, and it is this Bhakti which sets up a real communion with Bha-
gavan. Frail as man is, the mere performance of duties makes him
attached to them, unless he is bound to the higher planes by the
tie of holy attachment. The Gita is however silent as to the attrac-
tions of the higher planes and of Bhagavan. This was the defect
pointed out by Narada.

"O thou great Muni, as thou hast treated of Dharma and of
other things, so thou hast not recited the glory of Vasudeva ".
I. 5- 9-

"This universe is also an aspect of Bhagavan, for its creation,
preservation and end proceed from Him. Thou knowest all this
thyself. But thou hast shown to others only a portion of this
truth." I. 5. 20.

"Salutations to Thee, Bhagavan, let me meditate on VAsudeva.
Salutations to Pradyumna, Aniruddha and to Sankarshana. He who,
by naming these mfirtis in the mfirtiless, whose only mfirti is mantra,
makes offerings to Yajna Purusha, is the complete seer." I. 5. 37-38.
A mystery lies veiled in this Sloka.

But who is this Narada? Why should we accept his authority?
Narada was therefore careful to give his own account, elaborated by
the enquiries of Vyasa. All students of occultism will do well to
read carefully this account which forms a fitting preliminary to the
Bhagavata.

ACCOUNT OF NARADA.

SKANDHA I. CHAP. 5 ?? 6.

"In the previous Kalpa, in my former birth, I was born of a
certain maid-servant of Vedic Rishis. Certain Yogis had collected at
a place to pass the rainy season and I was engaged as a boy to serve
them. Seei?? me void of all fickleness as a boy and self-controlled,

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