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

  ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ...

---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 so...