Srimad Bhagavatam

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Srimad Bhagavatam

• Canto 1 Chapter 1
• Text 3
• Srimad-Bhagavatam the ripened fruit of the
  desire tree of Vedic literature.

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Text 3

• nigama-kalpa-taror galitaà phalaà
• çuka-mukhäd amåta-drava-saàyutam
• pibata bhägavataà rasam älayaà
• muhur aho rasikä bhuvi bhävukäù
• O expert and thoughtful men, relish
  Çrémad-Bhägavatam, the mature fruit of the desire
  tree of Vedic literatures. It emanated from the
  lips of Çré Çukadeva Gosvämé. Therefore this
  fruit has become even more tasteful, although its
  nectarean juice was already relishable for all,
  including liberated souls.

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Ripened fruit

• Vedic literature are like desire tree.
• Srimad-Bhagavatam is ripened fruit.
• The sensual pleasures are technically called
  rasas.
• Such rasas are of different varieties in the
  revealed scriptures the following twelve
  varieties of rasas are enumerated(1) raudra
  (anger), (2) adbhuta (wonder), (3) çåìgära
  (conjugal love), (4) häsya (comedy), (5) véra
  (chivalry), (6) dayä (mercy), (7) däsya
  (servitorship), (8) sakhya (fraternity), (9)
  bhayänaka (horror), (10) bébhatsa (shock), (11)
  çänta (neutrality), (12) vätsalya (parenthood).

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Original and perverted reflection

• one who attains full knowledge of these different
  rasas, which are the basic principles of
  activities, can understand the false
  representations of the original rasas which are
  reflected in the material world.
• The learned scholar seeks to relish the real rasa
  in the spiritual form.
• Less intelligent transcendentalists cannot go
  beyond the conception of becoming one with the
  spirit whole, without knowing of the different
  rasas.

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Careful study of Bhagavatam

• Foolish people who are not in the transcendental
  disciplic succession commit great blunders by
  trying to understand the highest transcendental
  rasa known as the räsa dance without following in
  the footsteps of Çukadeva Gosvämé, who presents
  this fruit very carefully by stages of
  transcendental realization.
• One should be intelligent enough to know the
  position of Çrémad-Bhägavatam by considering
  personalities like Çukadeva Gosvämé, who deals
  with the subject so carefully.
• This process of disciplic succession of the
  Bhägavata school suggests that in the future also
  Çrémad-Bhägavatam has to be understood from a
  person who is factually a representative of Çréla
  Çukadeva Gosvämé.

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Professional recitation of Bhagavatam

• A professional man who makes a business out of
  reciting the Bhägavatam illegally is certainly
  not a representative of Çukadeva Gosvämé. Such a
  man's business is only to earn his livelihood.
• Such men usually go to the most confidential part
  of the literature without undergoing the gradual
  process of understanding this grave subject.
• Some of them take this to be immoral, while
  others try to cover it up by their own stupid
  interpretations.
• The serious student of the rasa should receive
  the message of Bhägavatam in the chain of
  disciplic succession from Çréla Çukadeva Gosvämé.