A Summary of the Srimad Bhagavata Mahapuranam ( 04/04/2013. )

  ---------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, October 22, 2020. 01:46. PM.  CHAPTER-2. The Process of Creation - 3. ---------------------------------------------------------------- But after having created this total with the fiat of His will, there is no objection to the idea that the process of evolution took place gradually, because the theory is that creation is a cyclic process. It is not a sudden emerging of things that did not exist earlier. It is not that God created the world from nothing. We may say that, in some way, God does not create things Himself, as the sun does not create the problems of life, though without it no movement can take place here. God is responsible for the evolution of the potentials that existed during the conclusion of the previous cycle—called mahapralaya, the dissolution of the cosmos after one hundred lives of Brahma, the creative principle. The one hundred lives of Brahma is something difficult to imagine in one’s min

  ---------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday, October 11, 2020. 05:38. AM.  CHAPTER-2. The Process of Creation - 2. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 1. The condition to attain Narayana is that we want nothing or we want everything at the same time, because wanting everything is equal to wanting nothing. The trouble is that we want only certain things, and not all things. No one can humanly long for all things in the world at the same time. But why does the mind make this discrimination in asking for things? Why does it ask only for little things? Here is the trouble with human nature: it wants, but it does not want everything. But in the condition of moksha, liberation, we have to either want everything or not want anything. Akamah means one who has no desires of any kind; sarva-kamo va means one who has desires for all things at the same time. Moksha-kama udara-dhih—whose intent is on liberation alone; such a person has to w

  ---------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, September 24, 2020.   CHAPTER-2. The Process of Creation - 1. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 1. If any scripture of the Hindus, it is the Srimad Bhagavata Mahapurana. It consists of twelve books,  In the earlier sections—the first nine books—we have a cosmology of the whole of creation, and practically the history of mankind as conceived from the point of view of a religious interpretation of the process of creation. Suka Maharishi placed before Raja Parikshit a picture of the Cosmic Being, through whose Being, through whose Person run all the levels of existence—seven realms above and seven realms below, from Patala to Brahmaloka. Having described this wondrous structure of creation through every level which one has to pass in the process of spiritual evolution, Sri Suka now turns his attention to the possibility of self-purification through the worship of the lesser gods, wh

---------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, September 02, 2020.  06:00. AM. Discourse 1: King Parikshit’s Question to Suka Maharishi -10. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 1. So, ignorance is at the back of the so-called joys of life. If we know the cause, we will be disappointed in one second. There is a thief behind this joy that we appear to have in this world. That thief is trying to rob us of whatever energy we have. Sankaracharya, in one of his verses, tells us that there are many thieves in this world, and they are ready to rob us of all the treasures that we have in the form of energy. Our energy becomes depleted through every form of sense contact, and we become old and weak, and then perish due to a total exhaustion of the energy quantum of our personality. 2. We may say in this sense that the senses are deceivers, but philosophically there is another aspect which makes us give them some c

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday, August 02, 2020.4:59. AM. Discourse 1: King Parikshit’s Question to Suka Maharishi -9.  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. But the senses also tell us that this world is not all by the dissatisfaction that follows from every kind of so-called satisfaction provided to us by the sense organs. Because the contact of the senses with objects gives satisfaction, it may bring us to the conclusion that this world is wonderful and it is good in itself, but the bitter consequence that follows from this so-called ‘goodness’ of the satisfaction gained through these sense organs, is also indicative of the fact that this is not really good. So the senses are our teachers in a way, apart from their being what people generally call deceivers. They are pointers to two levels of reality at the same time. If we want to dub them as

Thursday, June 18, 2020. Discourse 1: King Parikshit’s Question to Suka Maharishi -7.  1. Though the rise from one level to another level is usually gradual, as is described to us in the Srimad Bhagavata and the Puranas, it is also said that a sudden rise is possible. It is something like this. Suppose one thousand rose petals are kept one over the other and a needle is passed through them, we may say that the needle pierced all these petals at one stroke; whereas, in fact, the needle passed gradually through one petal to the other in spite of the impression that it was an instantaneous action. Similarly, by the force of the power of yoga and meditation, we may compress the total process of the ascent through all the levels of creation into a so-called instantaneous action, though we cannot escape the law of any level of creation. 2. We may travel quickly by airplane, trudge by foot, or sit in a bullock cart. If we travel by airplane it takes no time at all to reach our destination, bu

================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, May 12, 2020. Discourse 1: King Parikshit’s Question to Suka Maharishi -7 : ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. It is an incomparable scripture. Its eighteen skandhas represent the eighteen processes of the evolution of the cosmos. In Indian culture, the word ‘eighteen’ has been regarded as very sacred. The Bhagavata contains eighteen skandhas, the Mahabharata contains eighteen parvas, the war took place for eighteen days, the Bhagavadgita has eighteen chapters; it is a great mystery. According to the traditional belief in the computational meaning of numbers, eighteen represents victory. According to a traditional calculation in India especially, the word ‘eight’ is represented by the word ‘ja’, and the word ‘ya’ is represented by the number ‘

======================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 08/04/2020. Discourse 1: King Parikshit’s Question to Suka Maharishi -6 : ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Action is cosmic action, and the characteristic of all visible physical things is its perishable nature  : –  Bhutabhavodbhavakaro visargah  karmasamjnitah (Gita 8.3);  Adhibhutam ksharo bhavah purushas cadhidaivatam (Gita 8.4).  The Purusha, who is the principle of cosmic sacrifice as we have it described in the Purusha Sukta, is also the indwelling presence in all our hearts. He is the source of individual sacrifices and right action, virtuous action, etc. He is the impeller from the recesses of our own heart. This is the source of individual impulses.  Adhiyajnoham evatra (Gita 8.4) : –  the field of activity is also God Himself. God is the director of the drama

======================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 26/01/2020. Discourse 1: King Parikshit’s Question to Suka Maharishi -5 : -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Srimad Bhagavad Gita : Chapter-8. Slokam-3. "aksharam brahma paramam svabhavodhyatmam ucyate   bhutabhavodbhavakaro visargah karmasamjnitam"; Slokam-4. "adhibhutam ksharo bhavah purushas-cadhidaivatam  adhiyajnoham evatra dehe dehabhytam vara." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Bhutabhavodbhavakaro visargah karmasamjnitam : Action, in the real sense of the term, is the force that ejects this cosmos right from the topmost level of creation – the atomic bindu of creat