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

    Skandham-2       Chapter-1.       The First Step in God Realization:-   Slokam- 1 to 39.   (-) My obeisances unto the Supreme Lord Vâsudeva. (1) S'rî S'uka said: ' The question you asked is a glorious one, as being beneficial to all man, o King, It carries the approval of the transcendentalists and constitutes the Supreme for everybody in all kinds of hearing. (2) There are countless of subject matters to hear about in human society, o Emperor, that are the interest of those materially engrossed who are blind to the reality of the soul. (3) Wasting their nights sleeping or indulging in sex they either spend their lives during the day with making money, or with maintaining their family, o King. (4) In spite of experiencing the destructivity of the fallible soldiers of the body, the children, the wife and everything thereto, they, being too attached, do not see. (5) For this reason, o descendant of Bhara...

Skandham-1. Chapter 19: The Appearance of S'ukadeva Gosvâmî. Slokam-1 to 40.   (1) Sûta said: "Going home the king thought that what he had done was something abominable and he was very depressed saying to himself: 'Alas, it was uncivilized and evil what I did to the faultless, grave and powerful brahmin. (2) I will no doubt because of going against the injunctions very soon meet with a very troublesome calamity. I certainly hope that that will happen as soon as possible so that I wil be relieved of my sins and never do anything like that again. (3) May I, on this very day, burn with my kingdom, strength and wealth of riches in the fire ignited by the brahmin community, so that the inauspiciousness of sinning against the Lord, the culture and the cows may not return to me.' (4) Thus pondering the message  reached him of the curse of death pronounced by the sage's son. That curse in the form of the fire of a snake bird he accepted as something ...

Skandham-1.     Chapter 18: Mahârâja Parîkchit Cursed by a Brahmin Boy       Slokam-  1 to 50.       (1) Sûta said: "He [Parîkchit] who in the womb of his mother was scorched by the weapon of the son of Drona, did not die thanks to the mercy of the Supreme Lord S'rî Krishna whose actions are so wonderful. (2) Cursed by a brahmin to die by a snake-bird, he was never overwhelmed by the great fear of death because he had consciously surrendered himself to the Supreme Lord. (3) After he had left behind all the ones surrouding him and had understood the actual position of the Invincible One, he as a disciple of the son of Vyâsa [S'ukadeva Gosvâmî] gave up his material body at the bank of the Ganges. (4) They who remembering His feet occupy themselves with His hymns and appreciate the nectarine stories in which He is glorified, will not even at the time of their death be confounded. (5) Even though he is present everywhere...

Skandham-1.    Chapter-17.   Slokam- 1 to 45.        Punishment and Reward of Kali        (1) Sûta said: "It was there [at the Sarasvatî river] that the king observed that a cow and bull were beaten with a club as if they had no owner, by a s'ûdra [one of the lowest class] dressed up as a king. (2) The bull, that was as white as a lotus, was terrified of being beaten by the s'ûdra and urinated and trembled out of fear, standing on one leg only. (3) The cow also, on itself a religious example but now rendered poor and distressed from the s'ûdra who had beaten her legs, was without a calf and had tears in her eyes being very weak hankering after some grass to eat. (4) From his with gold embossed chariot Parîkchit, well equipped with bow and arrows, with a thundering voice inquired: (5)'Who are you, that under my protection, at this place, you think you can violently kill the helpless! Although you appear to...

Skandham-1. Chapter -16.    Slokam 1 to 36.  How Parîkchit Received the Age of Kali      (1) Sûta said: "o learned ones, thereafter Parîkchit, the great devotee, ruled over the earth under the instructions of the twice-born, with the qualities the astrologers, predicting the future at the time of his birth, had thought he would have. (2) He married Irâvatî, the daughter of King Uttara, and begot four sons in her with Janamejaya as the first. (3) At the Ganges he performed three horse-sacrifices with proper rewards for Kripâcârya, whom he selected for his spiritual master, and the godly that came into view with it. (4) Once on a chastising campaign he, the valiant hero, by his prowess managed to punish the master of Kali-yuga who, disguised as a king, lower than a s'ûdra was hurting the legs of a cow and bull."        (5) S'aunaka inquired: "Why did he only punish the master of Kali during his campaign - he ...

Skandham-1.   Chapter-15.   Slokam- 1 to 51.       The Pândavas Retire      (1) Sûta said: "While Arjuna, the friend of Krishna, was thus subjected to the various forms of doubt and speculation by his elder brother the king, he turned out to be very aggrieved of his feelings of separation. (2) From his grief his mouth and lotuslike heart had dried up and his bodily luster had vanished. Thinking of the Supreme Lord S'rî Krishna he wasn't able to reply properly. (3) While with great difficulty checking the force of his sadness, wiping the tears of his eyes, the more he eagerly thought about Him out of his affection, the more distressed he became. (4) Remembering Him as well-wisher, benefactor, intimate associate and charioteer, Arjuna, heavily breathing of being overwhelmed, began to speak to his eldest brother the king. (5) He said: 'O my King, the Personality of Godhead Hari who treated me like His intimate friend has ...

Skandham-1.   Chapter-14.     Slokam- 1 to 44.      The Disappearance of Lord Krishna      (1) Sûta said: "Arjuna went to the city of Dvârakâ to see his friends and Krishna, the One Glorified by the Vedic Hymns, in order to know what His further plans were. (2) After a few months, when Arjuna did not return from there, Yudhishthhira observed various fearful signs. (3) He saw a fearful reversal of the direction of eternal time, observed seasonal irregularities and saw that the people in their human sins turned to anger, greed and falsehood in heartening their means of livelihood. (4) There was cheating in ordinary transactions, deception mixed in the regard of well-wishers, fathers, mothers and brothers and also between man and wife there was quarrel. (5) As the king saw how in the course of time the people were acquiring godless habits as wantonness and such, spoke he, facing these serious causes and bad omens, to...