स्तोकायुषां स्वनिगमो बत दूरपारः ।
आविर्हितस्त्वनुयुगं स हि सत्यवत्यां
वेदद्रुमं विटपशो विभजिष्यति स्म ॥३६॥
kÄlena mÄ«lita-dhiyÄm avamṛśya ná¹á¹‡Äá¹
stokÄyuá¹£Äá¹ sva-nigamo bata dÅ«ra-pÄraḥ
Ävirhitas tv anuyugaá¹ sa hi satyavatyÄá¹
veda-drumaá¹ viá¹a-paÅ›o vibhajiá¹£yati sma
kÄlena - in course of time; mÄ«lita-dhiyÄm - of the less intelligent persons; avamṛśya - considering the difficulties; ná¹á¹‡Äm - of humanity at large; stoka-Äyuá¹£Äm - of the short-living persons; sva-nigamaḥ - the Vedic literatures compiled by Him; bata - exactly; dÅ«ra-pÄraḥ - greatly difficult; Ävirhitaḥ - having appeared as; tu - but; anuyugam - in terms of the age; saḥ - He (the Lord); hi - certainly; satyavatyÄm - in the womb of SatyavatÄ«; veda-drumam - the desire tree of the Vedas; viá¹a-paÅ›aḥ - by division of branches; vibhajiá¹£yati - will divide; sma - as it were.
The Lord Himself in His incarnation as the son of SatyavatÄ« [VyÄsadeva] will consider his compilation of the Vedic literature to be very difficult for the less intelligent persons with short life, and thus He will divide the tree of Vedic knowledge into different branches, according to the circumstances of the particular age.
Herein BrahmÄ mentions the future compilation of ÅšrÄ«mad-BhÄgavatam for the short-lived persons of the Kali age. As explained in the First Canto, the less intelligent persons of the Age of Kali would be not only short-lived, but also perplexed with so many problems of life due to the awkward situation of the godless human society. Advancement of material comforts of the body is activity in the mode of ignorance according to the laws of material nature. Real advancement of knowledge means progress of knowledge in self-realization. But in the Age of Kali the less intelligent men mistakenly consider the short lifetime of one hundred years (now factually reduced to about forty or sixty years) to be all in all. They are less intelligent because they have no information of the eternity of life; they identify with the temporary material body existing for forty years and consider it the only basic principle of life. Such persons are described as equal to the asses and bulls. But the Lord, as the compassionate father of all living beings, imparts unto them the vast Vedic knowledge in short treatises like the Bhagavad-gÄ«tÄ and, for the graduates, the ÅšrÄ«mad-BhÄgavatam. The PurÄṇas and the MahÄbhÄrata are also similarly made by VyÄsadeva for the different types of men in the modes of material nature. But none of them are independent of the Vedic principles.
