1.1.3: Ripened fruit of Vedic Literature

August 6: Text 3 Today
Here Srila Vedavyasa is encouraging the readers that Srimad Bhagavatam is the ripened fruit of Vedic Literature. Vedas have so many branches, so many... Jyotishastra, Astrology, Palmistry, everything.
And this Bhagavatam is the wish fulfilling tree and the ripened fruit of Vedic Literature.

Actually, in 1st Canto it is given that Srila Vedavyasa was unhappy after compiling the vedas. Then in His meditation, he got a vision Krishna tattva and his expansions and maya in one corner. Maya is seen just as a cloud. He got darshan of Krishna, understood the sum and substance, goal of life and then he wrote SB.

Not only Srimad Bhagavatm is summary of Vedic Literatures, but it is very tasty also. It is like a fruit tasted by a parrot. It is a fruit first of all from a wish fulfulling tree, second it was spoken by a paramahamsa Sukadeva Goswami, so it became all the more sweeter.

Srimad Bhagavatam, same message as Bhagavad-gita, but given as full of stories. Thats why it is pure nectar. So many expansions, incarnations are mentioned (Rama, Nrsimha, etc), then finally in 10th Canto about Krishna, all His activities, all his pastimes.

How fortunate are we today, we are actually reading Srimad Bhagavatam. There are 5 primary mellows (service, friendship, paternal affection, and conjugal love), and seven secondary mellows (anger, wonder, comedy, chivalry, fear, shock and so on). The sum total of all these rasas is called affection or love. That is why it is a spiritually transcendental movie.