Study a Verse

• However, such activities are performed in response to the desires of conditioned souls, who are described herein as hetu, or the cause of cosmic activity.
• Since conditioned souls cannot perceive their own constitutional identity, they are described here as avyākṛtam, or unmanifest.
• In other words, the living entity cannot perceive his real form unless he is completely Kṛṣṇa conscious.

The purport's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.

Inquiry → Reverence. The transmission of sacred knowledge continues beyond the king's life.

Chapters 7–8 of Canto 12: The Vedic corpus and Mārkaṇḍeya's devotion. An editorial reading of the story's mood, not the text itself. See the emotional arc

Chapter 7: The Purāṇic Literatures

Summary of this chapter:

In this chapter Śrī Sūta Gosvāmī describes the expansion of the branches of the Atharva Veda, enumerates the compilers of the Purāṇas and explains the characteristics of a Purāṇa. He then lists the eighteen major Purāṇas and finishes his account by stating that any person who hears about these matters from someone in a proper disciplic succession will acquire spiritual potency.