Text* 1: ĹrÄŤ BÄdarÄyaáši said: Having worshiped Lord JanÄrdana and fasted on the EkÄdaĹÄŤ day, Nanda MahÄrÄja entered the water of the KÄlindÄŤ on the DvÄdaĹÄŤ to take his bath.
Text 2: Because Nanda MahÄrÄja entered the water in the dark of night, disregarding that the time was inauspicious, a demoniac servant of Varuáša seized him and brought him to his master.
Text 3: O King, not seeing Nanda MahÄrÄja, the cowherd men loudly cried out, âO KášášŁáša! O RÄma!â Lord KášášŁáša heard their cries and understood that His father had been captured by Varuáša. Therefore the almighty Lord, who makes His devotees fearless, went to the court of Varuášadeva.
Text* 4: Seeing that the Lord, HášášŁÄŤkeĹa, had arrived, the demigod Varuáša worshiped Him with elaborate offerings. Varuáša was in a state of great jubilation upon seeing the Lord, and he spoke as follows.
Text 5: ĹrÄŤ Varuáša said: Now my body has fulfilled its function. Indeed, now the goal of my life is achieved, O Lord. Those who accept Your lotus feet, O Personality of Godhead, can transcend the path of material existence.
Text 6: My obeisances unto You, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Absolute Truth, the Supreme Soul, within whom there is no trace of the illusory energy, which orchestrates the creation of this world.
Text 7: Your father, who is sitting here, was brought to me by a foolish, ignorant servant of mine who did not understand his proper duty. Therefore, please forgive us.
Text* 8: O KášášŁáša, O seer of everything, please give Your mercy even to me. O Govinda, You are most affectionate to Your father. Please take him home.
Text 9: Ĺukadeva GosvÄmÄŤ said: Thus satisfied by Lord Varuáša, ĹrÄŤ KášášŁáša, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord of lords, took His father and returned home, where their relatives were overjoyed to see them.
Text* 10: Nanda MahÄrÄja had been astonished to see for the first time the great opulence of Varuáša, the ruler of the ocean planet, and also to see how Varuáša and his servants had offered such humble respect to KášášŁáša. Nanda described all this to his fellow cowherd men.
Text 11: [Hearing about KášášŁášaâs pastimes with Varuáša,] the cowherd men considered that KášášŁáša must be the Supreme Lord, and their minds, O King, were filled with eagerness. They thought, âWill the Supreme Lord bestow upon us His transcendental abode?â
Text* 12: Because He sees everything, Lord KášášŁáša, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, automatically understood what the cowherd men were conjecturing. Wanting to show His compassion to them by fulfilling their desires, the Lord thought as follows.
Text 13: [Lord KášášŁáša thought:] Certainly people in this world are wandering among higher and lower destinations, which they achieve through activities performed according to their desires and without full knowledge. Thus people do not know their real destination.
Text 14: Thus deeply considering the situation, the all-merciful Supreme Personality of Godhead Hari revealed to the cowherd men His abode, which is beyond material darkness.
Text 15: Lord KášášŁáša revealed the indestructible spiritual effulgence, which is unlimited, conscious and eternal. Sages see that spiritual existence in trance, when their consciousness is free of the modes of material nature.
Text 16: The cowherd men were brought by Lord KášášŁáša to the Brahma-hrada, made to submerge in the water, and then lifted up. From the same vantage point that AkrĹŤra saw the spiritual world, the cowherd men saw the planet of the Absolute Truth.
Text 17: Nanda MahÄrÄja and the other cowherd men felt the greatest happiness when they saw that transcendental abode. They were especially amazed to see KášášŁáša Himself there, surrounded by the personified Vedas, who were offering Him prayers.