The heart of the matter!

Nityananda! Gauranga! Hare Krsna!

Dear Swami Gaurangapada and assembled devotees, please accept my simple obiesances.

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Notes On The Bhagavata : full e-book click here
By Bhaktivinoda Thakura

The Bhagavat Explains Itself:

1. It is the fruit of the tree of thought (Vedas) mixed with the nectar of the speech of Shukadeva. It is the temple of spiritual love .... [It is] composed of 18,000 Shlokas. It contains the best part of the Vedas and Vedanta.

2. The Bhagavata is pre-eminently "the Book" in India. Once enter into it, and you are transplanted, as it were, into the spiritual world where gross matter has no existence. The true follower of the Bhagavat is a spiritual man who has already cut his temporary connection with phenomenal nature, and has made himself the inhabitant of that region where God eternally exists and loves. This mighty work is founded upon inspiration and its superstructure is upon reflection. To the common reader it has no charms and is full of difficulty. We are, therefore, obliged to study it deeply through the assistance of such great commentators as Shridhara Svami and Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and His contemporary followers.

3. Now Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, the great preacher of Nadia, who has been Deified by His talented followers, tells us that the Bhagavat is founded upon the four verses which Vyasa received from Narada, the most learned of the created beings. He tells us further that Brahma pierced through the whole universe of matter for years and years in quest of the final cause of the world, but when he failed to find it abroad, he looked into the construction of his own spiritual nature, and there he heard the Universal Spirit speaking unto him:

4. "...I was in the beginning before all spiritual and temporal things were created, and after they have been created I am in them all in the shape of their existence and truthfulness, and when they will be all gone I shall remain full as I was and as I am. Whatever appears to be true without being a real fact itself, and whatever is not perceived though it is true in itself are subjects of my illusory energy of creation, such as light and darkness in the material world."

5. [Like Brahma, Vyasa also] fell back into his own self and searched his own spiritual nature and then it was that the above truth was communicated to him for his own good and the good of the world. The sage immediately perceived that his former works required supercession in as much as they did not contain the whole truth and nothing but the truth. In his new idea he obtained the development of his former idea of religion. He commenced the Bhagavat in pursuance of this change.

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...or to express in a simple honest way: For me Srimad Bhagavatam is worshipful Deity...Why?...because Sri GaurangaKrishna's heart resides within it! The joy of diversity and unity!

'For the simple devotee, it is not important whether Krsna is God or not. He simply loves Krsna.' (paraphrased from Srila Prabhupada). The goal is not to worship God as such, but to worship the Divine Cowherd Boy.

That is the key point of my faith, of faith free of awe and reverence, and free of antagonistic belief system. Each must find their heart and live it.
The desire of my heart is the Original Personality of Godhead! It is the heart of Srila Vyasadeva! Sri Brahmaji! Sri Narada! and ofcourse, Sukadeva!!!

y.s Nava

 

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