parÄŤkᚣito 'tha rÄjarᚣer
janma-karma-vilÄpanam
saášsthÄáš ca pÄášá¸u-putrÄášÄáš
vakᚣye kášášŁáša-kathodayam
parÄŤkᚣitaḼ - of King ParÄŤkᚣit; atha - thus; rÄjarᚣeḼ - of the King who was the ášášŁi among the kings; janma - birth; karma - activities; vilÄpanam - deliverance; saášsthÄm - renunciation of the world; ca - and; pÄášá¸u-putrÄášÄm - of the sons of PÄášá¸u; vakᚣye - I shall speak; kášášŁáša-kathÄ-udayam - that which gives rise to the transcendental narration of KášášŁáša, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Lord KášášŁáša is so kind to the fallen souls that He personally incarnates Himself amongst the different kinds of living entities and takes part with them in daily activities. Any historical fact old or new which has a connection with the activities of the Lord is to be understood as a transcendental narration of the Lord. Without KášášŁáša, all the supplementary literatures like the PurÄášas and MahÄbhÄrata are simply stories or historical facts. But with KášášŁáša they become transcendental, and when we hear of them we at once become transcendentally related with the Lord. ĹrÄŤmad-BhÄgavatam is also a PurÄáša, but the special significance of this PurÄáša is that the activities of the Lord are central and not just supplementary historical facts. ĹrÄŤmad-BhÄgavatam is thus recommended by Lord ĹrÄŤ Caitanya MahÄprabhu as the spotless PurÄáša. There is a class of less intelligent devotees of the BhÄgavata PurÄáša who desire to relish at once the activities of the Lord narrated in the Tenth Canto without first understanding the primary cantos. They are under the false impression that the other cantos are not concerned with KášášŁáša, and thus more foolishly than intelligently they take to the reading of the Tenth Canto. These readers are specifically told herein that the other cantos of the BhÄgavatam are as important as the Tenth Canto. No one should try to go into the matters of the Tenth Canto without having thoroughly understood the purport of the other nine cantos. KášášŁáša and His pure devotees like the PÄášá¸avas are on the same plane. KášášŁáša is not without His devotees of all the rasas, and the pure devotees like the PÄášá¸avas are not without KášášŁáša. The devotees and the Lord are interlinked, and they cannot be separated. Therefore talks about them are all kášášŁáša-kathÄ, or topics of the Lord.