Srimad Bhagavatam is the Essence of all the Vedas

2021-01-20

Srimad Bhagavatam 12.13.20-21 - Srimad Bhagavatam is the Essence of all the Vedas (download mp3)

by Dauji Prabhu at ISKCON Chowpatty 

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SB 12.13.20

namas tasmai bhagavate

vāsudevāya sākṣiṇe

ya idam kṛpayā kasmai

vyācacakṣe mumukṣave

Translation:

We offer our obeisances to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Vāsudeva, the all-pervading witness, who mercifully explained this science to Brahmā when he anxiously desired salvation.

SB 12.13.21

yogīndrāya namas tasmai

śukāya brahma-rūpiṇe

saṁsāra-sarpa-daṣṭaṁ yo

viṣṇu-rātam amūmucat

Translation:

I offer my humble obeisances to Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī, the best of mystic sages and a personal manifestation of the Absolute Truth. He saved Mahārāja Parīkṣit, who was bitten by the snake of material existence.

Purport:

Sūta Gosvāmī now offers obeisances to his own spiritual master, Śukadeva Gosvāmī. Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura clarifies that just as Arjuna was placed into material confusion so that Bhagavad-gītā might be spoken, so King Parīkṣit, a pure, liberated devotee of the Lord, was cursed to die so that Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam might be spoken. Actually, King Parīkṣit is viṣṇu-rāta, eternally under the protection of the Lord. Śukadeva Gosvāmī liberated the king from his so-called illusion to exhibit the merciful nature of a pure devotee and the enlightening effect of his association.