Srimad Bhagavatam discussion

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uddhava dushyant wrote:

> regardless of the historicity of the text, i still treasure and love

> everything about krishna in it.

 

Hare Krishna!

mahesh raja

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Note here how Satyavati [srila Vyasadeva] has been predicted to compile

Srimad-Bhagavatam for the short-lived persons of the Kali age.

 

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SB 2.7.36 T Scheduled Incarnations with Specific Functions

(translation: His Divine Grace A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada)

 

kalena milita-dhiyam avamrsya nrnam

stokayusam sva-nigamo bata dura-parah

avirhitas tv anuyugam sa hi satyavatyam

veda-drumam vita-paso vibhajisyati sma

 

SYNONYMS

kalena--in course of time; milita-dhiyam--of the less intelligent

persons; avamrsya--considering the difficulties; nrnam--of humanity at

large; stoka-ayusam--of the short-living persons; sva-nigamah--the Vedic

literatures compiled by Him; bata--exactly; dura-parah--greatly difficult;

avirhitah--having appeared as; tu--but; anuyugam--in terms of the age;

sah--He (the Lord); hi--certainly; satyavatyam--in the womb of Satyavati;

veda-drumam--the desire tree of the Vedas; vita-pasah--by division of

branches; vibhajisyati--will divide; sma--as it were.

 

TRANSLATION

 

The Lord Himself in His incarnation as the son of Satyavati [Vyasadeva]

will consider his compilation of the Vedic literature to be very difficult

for the less intelligent persons with short life, and thus He will divide

the tree of Vedic knowledge into different branches, according to the

circumstances of the particular age.

 

PURPORT

 

Herein Brahma mentions the future compilation of Srimad-Bhagavatam for

the short-lived persons of the Kali age. As explained in the First Canto,

the less intelligent persons of the age of Kali would be not only

short-lived, but also perplexed with so many problems of life due to the

awkward situation of the godless human society. Advancement of material

comforts of the body is activity in the mode of ignorance according to the

laws of material nature. Real advancement of knowledge means progress of

knowledge in self-realization. But in the age of Kali the less intelligent

men mistakenly consider the short lifetime of one hundred years (now

factually reduced to about forty or sixty years) to be all in all. They are

less intelligent because they have no information of the eternity of life;

they identify with the temporary material body existing for forty years and

consider it the only basic principle of life. Such persons are described as

equal to the asses and bulls. But the Lord, as the compassionate father of

all living beings, imparts unto them the vast Vedic knowledge in short

treatises like the Bhagavad-gita and, for the graduates, the

Srimad-Bhagavatam. The Puranas and the Mahabharata are also similarly made

by Vyasadeva for the different types of men in the modes of material nature.

But none of them are independent of the Vedic principles.