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Hare Krsna, It is exciting to be back to the regular study of Srimad Bhagavatam in the association of sincere, dedicated, and like-minded devotees and teachers. This is it! After hearing about the Supreme Lord’s greatness through the previous nine subject matters of Srimad Bhagavatam (sarga, visarga, sthana, posana, uti, manvantara, isanukatha, nirodha and mukti),Continue reading “SB 10.1.1-4: Maharaja Pariksit’s Desire to Hear Specifically About Lord Krsna”

Hare Krsna, Chapter 8 explains the manifestation of Lord Brahma from Garbhodakasayi Visnu. The highlight of the chapter is Brahma’s beautiful darshan of Lord Garbhodakasayi Visnu. Visnu was looking splendorous with His shining bodily luster, ornaments, moonlike toenails, yellow cloth, Srivatsa mark on the chest and so on. He acknowledged the service of His devoteesContinue reading “Meditations on SB Canto 3 Chapters 8-12”

Hare Krsna, Realizations from Chapters 5 through 7: In the 5th chapter, Maitreya first elaborately described the creation of the material universe. In the course of creation, the gross and subtle material elements once formed were meant to combine together to form the universe and different bodies within it. But the elements couldn’t do soContinue reading “Meditations on SB Canto 3 Chapters 5-7”

Hare Krsna, Chapters 1 through 4 have a number of important lessons for us. SB 3.1.3-4: Text 3: The King asked Śukadeva Gosvāmī: Where and when did the meeting and discussion take place between Saint Vidura and His Grace Maitreya Muni? Kindly oblige, my lord, and describe this to us. Saint Vidura was a greatContinue reading “Meditations on SB Canto 3 Chapters 1-4”

Hare Krsna, The ultimate goal of life is to always remember Krsna and never forget Him for even a moment. “The highest perfection of human life, achieved either by complete knowledge of matter and spirit, by practice of mystic powers, or by perfect discharge of occupational duty, is to remember the Personality of Godhead atContinue reading “SB 3.33.23-37: Attaining the Ultimate Goal of Life”

Hare Krsna, To understand Devahuti’s later life, it is important to revisit Lord Kapila’s key instructions. I would like to highlight a few verses that summarize His teachings. SB 3.25.20: “Every learned man knows very well that attachment for the material is the greatest entanglement of the spirit soul. But that same attachment, when appliedContinue reading “SB 3.33.9-22: Meditation of Devahuti’s Later Life Example”

Hare Krsna, What I liked about Devahuti’s prayers is that she nailed down the essence of Lord Kapiladeva’s teachings. After hearing her son’s instructions, she got down to the most basic and most important lesson for all of us. And that is the glories of chanting of the Holy Name of the Lord. In herContinue reading “SB 3.33.1-8: Meditations on the Prayers of Devahuti”

Hare Krsna, It is amazing to see the similarities between Lord Narayana’s instructions to Lord Brahma and Lord Kapila’s instructions to Mother Devahuti. In the last Catuh-sloki verse, Lord Narayana said, “A person who is searching after the Supreme Absolute Truth, the Personality of Godhead, must certainly search for it up to this, in allContinue reading “SB 3.32.31-43: The Lord’s Essential Instruction”

Hare Krsna, SB 1.2.11 Sūta Gosvāmī said: Learned transcendentalists who know the Absolute Truth call this nondual substance Brahman, Paramātmā or Bhagavān. SB 3.32.26 Lord Kapiladeva continued: The Supreme Personality of Godhead alone is complete transcendental knowledge, but according to the different processes of understanding He appears differently, either as impersonal Brahman, as Paramātmā, as theContinue reading “SB 3.32.26-30: How and Why the Absolute Truth Appears Differently”

Hare Krsna, Conditioned living entities are called marginal energy of the Lord. The Supreme Lord is the energetic and we are the energies of the Lord. The Lord has two other energies  – internal (antaranga-sakti) and external (bahiranga-sakti). We are called marginal or tatashta sakti of the Lord because we are situated at the junctionContinue reading “SB 3.32.12-25: Binding Actions vs. Transcendental Actions”