After having compiled the voluminous Vedic literature—the four Vedas, the Mahābhārata, the eighteen Purāṇas, and the Vedānta-sūtra—Śrīla Vyāsadeva, the literary incarnation of God, felt profoundly unhappy and restless.

He had performed a colossal service to humanity by making all this knowledge accessible. He had written extensively on: Dharma/Artha/Kāma/Mokṣa

These four are considered the aims of human life according to general religious principles. Despite his perfect descriptions of these duties, Vyāsadeva was not pacified. He felt a deep, sense of emptiness and anxiety. He had treated all the symptoms of a civilized, religious life, but the chronic problem of dissatisfaction persisted.