This may be because I did not specifically point out the devotional service of the Lord, which is dear both to perfect beings and to the infallible Lord'." I am feeling incomplete, though myself I am fully equipped with everything required by the Vedas. I also abided by the rulings and have shown the import of disciplic succession through the explanation of the Mahabharata, by which even women, shudras and others (friends of the twice born) can see the path of religion. 'I have, under strict disciplinary vows, unpretentiously worshipped the Vedas, the spiritual master and the altar of sacrifice. Thus Sage Vyasa maharshi, being dissatisfied in heart, began to reflect within himself. Still he was not satisfied, even though he was engaged in working for the total welfare of all people. "Thus the great Sage Vyasa maharshi, who is very kind to the ignorant mass, edited the Vedas so they might be assimilated by less intellectual men. The four divisions of the original sources of knowledge (the Vedas) were made separately, but historical facts and authentic stories mentioned in the Puranas are called the fifth Veda. He saw that the sacrifices mentioned in the Vedas were means by which people's occupations could be purified, and to simplify the process, he divided the one Veda into four, in order to expand them among men. Then he contemplated for the welfare of men in all statuses and orders of life. He could also see that the faithless people in general would be reduced in duration of life and would be impatient due to lack of goodness. "The great sage, Sage Vyasa maharshi who was fully equipped with knowledge, could see through his transcendental vision the deterioration of everything material, due to the influence of the age. The word "Vyasa" means one who describes elaborately. He did so on the condition that Sage Vyasa maharshi continually recited, and Ganesha, having perfectly understood the meaning, wrote down the Mahabharata. Recorded is another instance when Sage Vyasa maharshi called for Ganesha (the elephant-headed 'deva') to write the Mahabharata as he related it to him. Later in life it is recorded that Sage Vyasa maharshi returned to this island in the river and there compiled the Srimad Bhagavatam. Sage Vyasa maharshi soon grew into everything that Parasara had described, and had many disciples.
He would be a man of purity, the spiritual master of the entire world, and He would divide the Vedas. Parasara explained to her that even after the child was born she would remain a virgin and the son born to her would be a portion of Lord Visnu and would be famous throughout the three worlds. He then created an island in the river and on that island the girl conceived a child in her womb. When he sat close to her she moved away, and asked him not to violate her chastity, but Parasara Muni being already too far carried away, created an artificial fog on the river and seduced her right there in the boat. Once the hermit Parasara became attracted to a fisher girl of the name Matsya-Gandha.Parasara Muni asked the beautiful Matsya-Gandha, so named because of her fishy aroma, to take him in her boat from one side of the river to the other, but the beauty of this damsel, her bodily movements from the rowing, aroused lusty desires in Parasara. The following is the story that we just touched upon mentioning how sage Vyasa maharshi came to make His appearance.
Anyway, everyone at least agrees that the date of sage Vyasa maharshi's appearance was on the twelfth day of the light fortnight in the month of Vaisaka (April-May), called Vasant Dwadasi. They also lay claim that later sage Vyasa maharshi came back to that 'ashrama' and stayed there for some time, and this being why there is a small Deity of Him at the entrance of the cave. There are local records that support this statement, which say this was the 'ashrama' of Parasara Muni and at this place sage Vyasa maharshi was conceived. There are some who say that Krsnadwaipayana Veda Vyasa took his birth at a place now known as Vyasa Goofer, the cave of sage Vyasa maharshi in present day Nepal, on the road from Pokara to Kathmandu which was, in days of yore, part of the kingdom of King Janaka. After dividing the Vedas he got the name Veda Vyasa. In sage Vyasa maharshi's childhood he was called Krsna, because of his dark complexion, and because he was born on an island at the confluence of the Sati and Mati Rivers he was called Dwaipayana.
"When the second millenium ('Dwarpa Yuga') overlapped the third ('Treta Yuga'), the great sage Vyasa maharshi was born to Parasara Muni in the womb of Satyati, the daughter of Vasu (the fisherman).