Verse 1.1.18

Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration, Word-for-word and English translation of verse 1.1.18:

श्री-उत्तरोवाच—
यच् छुकेनोपदिष्टं ते वत्स निष्कृष्य तस्य मे ।
सारं प्रकाशय क्षिप्रं क्षीराम्भोधेर् इवामृतम् ॥ १८ ॥

śrī-uttarovāca—
yac chukenopadiṣṭaṃ te vatsa niṣkṛṣya tasya me |
sāraṃ prakāśaya kṣipraṃ kṣīrāmbhodher ivāmṛtam || 18 ||

Śrī Uttarā-devī said: O son, you received advice from the lotus mouth of Śrī Śukadeva. You should wisely extract the essence of those truths and relate them to me as if extracting nectar from the Ocean of Milk.

Commentary: Dig-darśinī-ṭīkā with Bhāvānuvāda

(By Śrīla Sanātana Gosvāmī himself including a deep purport of that commentary)

“O son, you should relate to me the essence of instructions you received from the divine mouth of Śrī Śukadeva.” This reveals the supreme esoteric nature of the above-mentioned subject matter. Now the question may arise, “Does she want to hear only the narration of the rāsa pastimes of Śrī Vṛnḍāvana which is the essence of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam?”

Therefore Śrī Uttarā-devī speaks the line beginning with niṣkṛṣya (extract). “When a compressor extracts sugarcane, its essential juice first exudes out, by discarding unwanted portions gradually the essence of the juice becomes guḍa or jaggery, khaṇḍa-sāra or candied sugar, then finally the most excellent sārkarā, refined sugar, manifests. Similarly, you should consider the nectarean truths of Śrīmad Bhāgavatam step by step with the power of your pure intellect and then describe the supremely sacred pastimes of Vṛndāvana according to your transcendental realization.”

The extremely beautiful example given here is that by churning the Ocean of Milk the divine nectar of immortality was extracted, similarly, her son should reveal the essential truths of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam by churning the Bhāgavatam.