Sinful association destroys all good character; knowledge comes only through humble surrender to a qualified spiritual master.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Prabhupāda: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, Sixth Canto, Chapter One, text number 22. [aside:] Get on the... Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevaya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevaya.
Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevaya. [devotees repeat] [leads devotees in chanting] [02:10] bandy-akṣaiḥ kaitavaiś cauryair garhitāṁ vṛttim āsthitaḥ bibhrat kuṭumbam aśucir yātayām āsa dehinaḥ [SB 6.1.22] So gradually the history of Ajāmila. We have already narrated, he was inhabitant of Kānyakubja. It is historical incidence.
It is not a fiction, manufactured something. No. History, itihāsa. So in the Vedic literature they are...
Everything is itihāsa, history. Just like in the park we were talking of the Milk Ocean. The Milk Ocean is there in some part of the universe, top, near Brahmaloka. So it is not fiction; it is itihāsa, means history.
We do not know the universal history. We may know some history of our country or this planet. That's all. But there are millions and trillions of planets. So that history is recorded in the Vedic literature.
There are different varieties of planets, there are different standard of comfort, different standard... It is stated in the Brahma-saṁhitā that yasya prabhā prabhavato jagad-aṇḍa-koṭi [Bs 5.40]. The brahma-jyoti, the effulgence of Kṛṣṇa's body... Just like effulgence of the sun-god's body is the sunshine.
We can very easily understand. This is a material thing. There is sun-god. The sun-god, his name is Vivasvān.