Topics covered
Appearence of Sri Narada
- Paramahamsa Shukadeva Gosvami
- Ideal king, Maharaja Parikshit
- Birthdate of Vyasadeva
- Vyasadeva activities in prepering transcendental works
- Vedas Entrusted to different scholars
- Vedas made easy for the less intelligent class
- Mercy of Vyasadeva
- Unworthy sons of the higher castes
- Dissatisfaction of Vyasadeva and its cause
Naradas
instructions on Srimad Bhagvatam for Vyasadeva
- The mind and the body
- Identification of self with the body or mind is cause of despondency
- The cause explaned
- Flowery languge without divinity is condemned
Need of
preaching a Srimad Bhagavatam
- Nothing is good withhout God
- Be fixed upon the complete work
- Human frailties
- A boon to the layman
- The prime duty
- The permanent gain
- Personal and impersonal features of the Lord
- Purpose of all cultural assets
- The Bhaktivedantas people
- Principles of saintly association
- Miraculous act of hearing Bhagavatam
- Effects of spiritual association
- Duties ofa neophyte
- Real spiritual master
- Meaning of surender
- The cause of miseries
- Omport of bhakti yoga
- Cent-percent engagment
- Sound as form
- Concluding instruction of Narada
Coversation
between Narada and Vyasa
- Further inquiry by vyasadeva
- History of Naradas previous life
- His touring
- His momentous hankering for the Lord
- Seeing the Lord
- Message of Godhead
- Naradas eternal engagment
- His transcendental body
- His reappearance
- His freedom of movement in all planets
- The lord his constant companion
- Comparative importance of bhaki – yoga and mistyc powers
Lessions to be learned:
- The speaker and the audience shoul be bonafide
- Krsna katha is the medicine
- Srimad-Bhagavatam has nothing to do with anything mundane
- Learned sage looks equally at everyone
- Sukadeva Gosvami was transcendental to sex relations
- Householder has to distinguish between a male and female
- We have to perform sacrifice
- A sage is recognized by hearing
- We need to aproach asadhu to hear from him
- No topic other than the glorification of Lord Krishna should be discussed
- We have to be busy in the welfare work for the public
- All Vedas are emanations from the breathing of the Supreme Being
- Realization is more important than parrotlike chanting
- "Krishna consciousness" means nothing less than absorption in Krishna.
- Forces of time are so powerful tha they reduced everything in Kali yuga
- Liberated souls can see through the eyes of scriptures
- Sages - real friends of the people
- Original source of knowledge are Vedas
- Vedas are understood by persons with exceptional qualities of goodness
- Bhagavad-gita was spoken to a family man
- We also have at end of every day to analize our defects and how we can imporve our live
- We should not have identified the self with the body or the mind – it is couse of suffering
- Approach a personality like Narada to solve the root cause of all despondencies
- Devotee - emblem of all knowledge
- The Lord has expanded Himself as living beings
- Necessity of explaining Vedanta-sutra in the form of Srimad-Bhagavatam
- After liberation one is engaged in pure devotional service
- Vasudeva is goal of human endeavor
- Meaning of scriptures is revealed by repetition
- People are like crows or swans
- Great thinkers has ability to pick up the best even from the worst
- Polluted atmosphere of the world has to be changed
- There is no cause of quarrel between the two countries
- Great need for disseminating the message of Srimad-Bhagavatam
- People are tools in the hands of the modern politicians and leaders
- Srimad-Bhagavatam is food for hankering of people
- Let there be systematic propaganda for popularizing reading of Srimad-Bhagavatam
- Devotee always glorify the Lord
- If there is no bhakti the work is useless
- Karma not offered to Lord is useless
- Great sages can supply transcendental novel informations every day
- Srimad-Bhagavatam is meant for all the living beings all over the universe for total liberation
- Liberated person possesses perfect senses
- We have to remember the various pastimes of the Lord
- People always disturbed about finding the real path of self-realization
- Srila Naradadeva is trying to emphasize describing everything in relation with the Supreme Lord
- There is nothing existent except the Lord
- The human form of life is a chance to get out of this imprisoned life
- Mahabharata culminates in the ultimate instructions of the Bhagavad-gita
- The expert physician does not make any compromise
- People falls down from the path of service by undesirable association
- One may fall down, but he will never forget the lotus feet of the Lord
- Bhakti is independently powerful
- Impressions created by bhakti are indestructible and remain in subtle form
- Distress is attained without endeavor
- Devotee is reformed by chastisement directed by the Lord
- Fallen devotees are given a chance to take birth in a family of highly qualified brahmanas or in a rich mercantile family
- There is no misfortune for the devotee
- This universe is like the Lord
- We must accept the supremacy of the Lord
- One must have a spiritual master
- Advancement of knowledge is applied in the service
- Dharmas will be produced by bhakti
- Everything is easily achieved by devotee through bhakti
- The service to the Lord begins with the service of the Lord's bona fide servants
- We should beget children son they can achive complete perfection of life
- Pure devotee is cleared from all kinds of sins
- We can get infection of the qualities of the pure devotee by eating his remnants
- Lord perform transcendental pastimes as a human being so we will be attracted towards Him
- By hearing one contacts directly the Personality of Godhead
- We should realize our ignorance
- Instruction of the Lord can be understood by the devotees only
- We should understand how the different energies of the Lord are working
- One must dedicate everything to the service of the Lord
- All our activities have to be spiritualized
- We should work only for Krsna
- We should seek the association of pure devotees
- The basic principle is to satisfy the Lord
- Preacher is dear to the Lord
- Lord is worshiped by sound representation
- By chanting the mantra, the deity makes his appearance
- Disciple should understand heart of his guru
- Spiritual consciousness is not annihilated
- Important symptom visible after initiation - change in his life
- See in every step a benedictory direction of the Lord
- We should find impetus in spiritual life
- We should experience all varieties of God's creation
- Sit down at some holy place and chant
- Meet the needs of body by the gifts of nature
- Use proper use of one's trained intelligence for meditating
- The Lord is pleased to be present out of His causeless mercy
- Lord is bound up by the tie of unalloyed devotion
- Worship the Deity of the Lord (arcana)
- Lord is increasing hankerings of devotee for the loving transcendental service
- Seeing the Lord means being engaged in His service
- Neophyte devotee gets intelligence how to spiritualy advance
- Lord seen or heard is same
- We should have one single desire: to go back to Godhead
- Devotee has no hankerings for petty material things
- Devotee simultaneously changes his material body and develops a spiritual body
- We should properly use the sound meters for singing for Krishna
- Lord is attracted by the pure devotee's chanting of His glories
- Maya -cannot give satisfaction to people
- We can have the same experience as great sages
- We have opportunity in this life to search out for the Lord
- Everyone is anxious for full freedom
- Narada Muni has unlimitedness of freedom
