Realisation of Bhagavata

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The difference between the Vedas and the Puranas is like that between the

brahmanas and the parivrajakas. The brahmanas are meant to administer some

fruitive sacrifices mentioned in the Vedas, but the parivrajakacaryas, or

learned preachers, are meant to disseminate transcendental knowledge to one

and all. As such, the parivrajakacaryas are not always expert in pronouncing

the Vedic mantras, which are practiced systematically by accent and meter by

the brahmanas who are meant for administering Vedic rites. Yet it should not

be considered that the brahmanas are more important than the itinerant

preachers. They are one and different simultaneously because they are meant

for the same end, in different ways.

There is no difference also between the Vedic mantras and what is explained

in the Puranas and Itihasa. According to Srila Jiva Gosvami, it is mentioned

in the Madhyandina-sruti that all the Vedas, namely the Sama, Atharva, Rg,

Yajur, Puranas, Itihasas, Upanisads, etc., are emanations from the breathing

of the Supreme Being. The only difference is that the Vedic mantras are

mostly begun with pranava omkara, and it requires some training to practice

the metric pronunciation of the Vedic mantras. But that does not mean that

Srimad-Bhagavatam is of less importance than the Vedic mantras. Besides

that, the most perfectly liberated soul, Srila Sukadeva Gosvami, is absorbed

in the studies of the Bhagavatam, although he is already self-realized.

Srila Suta Gosvami is following his footsteps, and therefore his position is

not the least less important because he was not expert in chanting Vedic

mantras with metric pronunciation, which depends more on practice than

actual realization.Realization is more important than parrotlike chanting.

 

>>> Ref. VedaBase => SB 1.4.13

 

 

 

 

>>> Ref. VedaBase => purport SB 1.4.13