Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Parampara - Importance - Sripad Sankaracharya's BhajaGovindam

Verse 1.3.42: Today's verse is talking about how Sri Sukadeva Goswami received the Bhagavatam from Srila Vyasadev, and then hearing from Sukadeva Goswami, Srila Suta Goswami is now speaking it to other sages.
3 Points:
1) We should receive the message of Srimad Bhagavatam in parampara, in disciplic succession. This Srimad Bhagavatam is not fiction, it is factual history that has taken place not just in this planet, but so many other planets all around the material universe. It should not be heard from a professional recitor, then it is like drinking milk that is touched by a serpent, but we should do this in disciplic succession, only hearing from a bonafide representative of Srila Suta Goswami.
2) Srila Prabhupada is mentioning a point on how Maharaj Parikshit once he came to know that he was going to die, he immediately sat down to listen Srimad Bhagavatam from Sukadeva Goswami. We need to understand the mood of Bhagavatam.
3) Srila Prabhupada is quoting Sripad Sankaracharya. Although he presented vedantasutra's in a impersonal form, he finally stated that realizing Govinda is the highest and all other flowery language that he himself presented is useless, if it does not help one remember Govinda at the time of death.

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