"What should be the duty of a man who is surely going to die very soon? How should I utilize my energy that it may help me after death? Certain death is approaching towards me and so how can I utilize my time best ?"

So many rishis, authorities of different departments of knowledge of the Veda, were recommending to him differently, and he was perplexed. He told, "You give some unanimous verdict to me. I have no time so please you give some unanimous instruction."

At that time by chance Sukadeva arrived there at the meeting. Sukadeva was a man of fable; many had heard about him, about this peculiar realized soul. "He is a boy of sixteen but he has got no feeling about this world which is so charming to all of us. We are trying our hardest, our best, to get out of the entanglement of this charming world but we find that we fail at every step. However, that boy, Sukadeva, has crossed the line of illusion and maya and always is in the continuous spiritual conception of the conscious world of the liberated beings (brahma-nirvana). He is ignoring these material things, these pains and discomforts of this world which we are always feeling disturbed by, and he is always naked and does not even find the necessity of wearing a cloth around his waist. Even he has got no distinction in his mental eye as to whether one is a woman or a man. He is so highly and firmly established in pure spiritual conception that even the beautiful girls do not feel any necessity to cover the parts their of body when they see him."

Sukadev was like a fable to the gathered sages. So when Sukadeva appeared they all rose in honor of him. Sukadeva is not caring for anything there and when he entered the asembly all the rsis told to Pariksit Maharaja: "Maharaja, you are very fortunate: this mahatma, who we all seek to have darshan of, has come. You please ask your question to him, and we are all eager to hear something from his lips." So they all unanimously put Sukadeva in the presidential chair. They all took their seats and Pariksit asked him, "I am just approaching certain death so what is my duty? How should my duty be done in order that I can have my highest benefit in the least span of time?"

Sukadeva began to answer and everyone there in pin-drop silence began to listen to his words. His words were coming unquestionably as the absolute truth and were unanimously accepted by all. Present in that assembly were all the big scholars who had come to give some consolation to Pariksit Maharaja, "You are such a good Maharaja with good administration. You are unparalleled as well as a lover, respecter and protector of the brahminical yajna, faith, etc. Despite all these qualifications you have been cursed to die within seven days by the boy Srngi, a member of the brahmana section, and that is a very lamentable thing. His curse will prove to be fatal, and that is lamentable." In this way almost all the leaders of all different schools of philosophy came to give consolation to Maharaja Pariksit. It was in that well-represented assembly that Sukadeva was to speak.

Narada and Vyasadeva knew well that, "What teachings we are trying to inaugurate, the philosophy of the Bhagavata which for many sages seemed to be a very narrow and bigoted thing, a sectarian philosophy, when Sukadeva will speak this Bhagavatam he will give it in a very extensive way, illustrating the message of the Bhagavata with the widest color of expression."

Previously, Narada had expressed, "I gave ten poems as ten outlines about the philosohy of Bhagavata to Vyasadeva and he elaborately taught that to Sukadeva. Sukadeva has got some extensive credit and honor amongst all the types of scholars. He is a visionary of extraordinary insight. He is coming in that broad view of reality experienced by the liberated soul, and his understanding is percolated by his brahma conception, we are eager to see how this elaborated Srimad Bhagavatam shall be delivered to this world by him, retaining its transcendental characteristic. In order to do away with any mundane misconception the Bhagavata must pass through Sukadeva otherwise people may think philosophy of the Bhagavata to be a sectarian teaching and something mundane. He has got the broadest conception of view and his qualification is admitted by sages from all sides and traditions."

Narada and Vyasadeva were present and eagerly waiting. Happily they tasted how through brahma-jnana, through the widest touch, this Krishna-lila, this narration of the stories of Krishna's pastimes, which seems to be a narration of very limited and narrow things, passes through from Sukadev to the wider community of sages to become widely accepted by all.

All these gentlemen for seven days attended this meeting and they all listened to Sukadev with such eagerness.

Sukadeva told, "From my father the sage Vyasa, from my dear affectionate father I have learned these things." And giving warning to the audience he told, "You all know that I have no bigoted conception about religion. The broadest conception of religion I possess and I am famous for that. I have got contact with the brahma. Brahma means the biggest, the greatest plane: the higher, widest plane. I am already settled in that consciousness so what I say don't take it as mundane happenings of this limited world, but it is coming from the other side. That is beyond Brahmaloka and has attracted me. I have got no charm for anything of this mundane world. I am well established in the transcendental world. I shall give delivery to you all of what attracted me and what I have noted and studied, and that is fully transcendental. With this warning I give delivery of all these things, of Krishna-lila. You should take it that Krishna's pastimes are broader, wider, higher and deeper things in the transcendental world. You must take it like that." Now and again giving this warning Sukadeva is delivering the whole thing, and Narada and Vyasadeva are reflecting: "Yes, we are successful! This message of the Bhagavata is now revealed to all the great sages assembled here."

In his introduction to Srimad Bhagavatam, Vyasadeva has written there, "Originally this Srimad Bhagavatam is a very good thing, but still its beauty is enhanced by the commentary that has come from the mouth of Sukadeva The Bhagavat knowledge modified and ornamented by the knowledge of Sukadeva has got a wider view and that universal truth will be easy for all sections of the religious school to accept."

So, knowing this knowledge of the philosophy of Bhagavatam would be spread all over India by the sages who were listening to Sukadev's talk, Vyasa the guru and Narada the param-guru of Sukadeva were happily present there and listening to his talk. They knew the future and could understand that this recitation would occur, and also out of sympathy for Maharaja Pariksit who was about to die they came to that gathering. They did not come by chance.