Srimad Bhagvata Mahapurana Book 3 Chapter 4:29-36

Book 3: Chapter 4

Srimad Bhagvata Mahapurana: Book 3: Chapter 4: Verses 29-36 As directed by Uddhava, Vidura calls on the sage Maitreya Sri Suka replied : When Sri Krsna, whose desire never remains unfulfilled, had exterminated His own race through the instrumentality of Death, who appeared in the shape of the Brahmanas' execration, and when He was about to cast off His body (in the eyes of the world), He reflected thus: "Now, when I shall have departed from this world, Uddhava alone, the foremost among those who have attained Self-Realization, is really qualified to receive the knowledge concerning Me. Uddhava is in no wise inferior to Me, inasmuch as He has mastered his self and is never perturbed by the objects of sense. So let him remain on earth, imparting to the world the knowledge regarding Me." Instructed betook himself to Badarikasrama and adored Sri Hari (Sri Krsna) through abstract meditation. When Vidura heard from Uddhava an account of the praiseworthy doings of Sri Krsna, the Supreme Spirit, who had assumed a human semblance as a mere sport, as well as of the way in which He had quitted His body--which was such as strengthened the resolution of the resolute and was something too hard to accomplish for those who have a feeble mind and therefore as good as beasts-and when, O Pariksit (the foremost among the Kurus), he remembered that Sri Krsna had thought of him (at the time of His departure), he was overwhelmed with emotion and wept on parting with that great devotee of the Lord. Leaving the bank of the Kalindi (Yamuna), the enlightened Vidura (the foremost of the Bharatas) reached in a few days the bank of the heavenly river (Ganga), where the sage Maitreya (the son of Mitra) was. Thus ends the fourth discourse in Book Three, consisting of a dialogue between Vidura and Uddhava, of the great and glorious Bhagavata-Purana, otherwise known as the Paramahamsa-Samhita.