The Glory of God: A Summary of the Srimad Bhagavata Mahapurana: ( 04/04/2013. )

AT PRESENT WE LIVE IN KALIYUGAM ========================================================================= Friday, March 24,  2023. 06:00.  Chapter - 5: Narada Instructs Yudhisthira on Ashrama Dharma - 1. ========================================================================= The Sixth and Seventh Skandhas of the Srimad Bhagavata are devoted entirely to the great battle that was waged between Indra and Vritra, and in this context we also have the story of Chitraketu. It is in the Seventh Skandha that we have a more detailed analysis of Ashrama dharma, which Narada recounts to Yudhishthira in the context of his question concerning the birth of Prahlada, ending with Narasimha avatara due the activities of Hiranyaksha and Hiranyakashipu, two children born to Kashyapa and Diti under queer circumstances. Narada's instruction to Yudhishthira is especially on the dharmas to be followed in the Ashrama system of life. From the birth of a child into this world onwards, there is a gradu...

========================================================================= Sunday, February 05,  2023. 06:00.  Chapter-4. The Stories of Siva and Sati, and Rishabhadeva and Bharata -7. ========================================================================= When the king heard these words he was surprised, and understood that this was not an ordinary person. He came down from the palanquin, prostrated himself, and said, “O great sadhu! Bless me. I did not know who you are. If I have committed any mistake, please pardon me. Instruct me. Tell me who you are, masquerading as a human being. Perhaps you are some divinity, a god. I do not know who you are. Please tell me. I have made a mistake. Pardon me, again and again, O sadhu! Tell me who you are.” Then the great discourse of Bharata is narrated in the beautiful language of the Srimad Bhagavata Mahapurana. The whole world is compared to a forest, where animals like human beings are moving in search of their grub. This is a wild ...

 ======================================================================== ========================================================================= Friday, December 16, 2022. 07:00.  Chapter-4. The Stories of Siva and Sati, and Rishabhadeva and Bharata -6. ========================================================================= Because of the fear of attachment due to the lesson that he had learned, he would not utter a word in this birth. His parents sent him to school, but he would not learn anything, not even the letters of the alphabet. Whatever was told to him fell on deaf ears. They thought that he was an idiot who was shamefully born into a Brahmin family, as Brahmins are very learned in Vedic lore. They tried to teach him again and again, but he was so idle, and never responded to anyone, and would not say anything. They thought he was an idiotic creature, and wondered what to do with him. They said, “Go! Do some work,” but he would not do any work either. “Okay, at l...

======================================================================== ========================================================================= Saturday, October 29, 2022. 09:00.  Chapter-4. The Stories of Siva and Sati, and Rishabhadeva and Bharata -5. ========================================================================= The highlighting katha in this Skandha is the stories of Rishabhadeva and Bharata. Rishabhadeva was a king who abdicated his throne and became an ascetic in the forest. The Jainas consider Rishabhadeva as their first Tirthankara because he lived like an utter renunciate who would not even wear clothes, which is the description of a Tirthankara in Jain literature. Digambara was the behaviour of this Rishabhadeva. Such was his austerity, such was the tejas that emanated from his person, such was the energy that was in his personality, that it is said that wherever he eased himself, that part of the earth would become gold. Wherever he went, people would run a...

 ====================================================================== ======================================================================= Thursday, August  18, 2022. 21:00.  The Glory of God :  Chapter-4. The Stories of Siva and Sati, and Rishabhadeva and Bharata -4. ========================================================================= “When I was engaged in battle with Drona and Karna, I saw some vague being moving about, not touching the ground. It was sometimes visible, sometimes not visible. It had ashes on its body, a serpent around its neck, and a trident in its hand. I could not make out what it was. It was an illusion before me. At the time I could not speak about this because I was engaged in war, but I remember this incident now and want to ask you what it was that I was seeing there,” said Arjuna Sri Krishna said, “You are a blessed man to have that vision. It was Bhagavan Sankara himself, invisibly moving in the battlefield to help you. Otherwis...

 ===================================================================== ====================================================================== Monday, June  13, 2022. 06:00.  The Glory of God :  Chapter-4. The Stories of Siva and Sati, and Rishabhadeva and Bharata -3. ========================================================================= News reached Lord Siva. He could have opened his third eye and burnt everybody if he wanted, but he had something else in his mind. He pulled a hair from his head and struck it on the ground. A fierce giant rose up. “Order, master!” said the giant. “Go and destroy the yajna of Daksha,” said Siva. With the fierce retinue of Rudra, this giant called Virabhadra rushed to the sacrificial area of Daksha where all were seated, and when this fierce onrush of militant demoniacal forces entered the yajna, the ritviks, the priests performing the yajna, were frightened. They immediately invoked a counterforce from the fire, which rose up by t...

 =============================================================== ================================================================ Monday, April 25, 2022. 06:00.  The Glory of God :  Chapter-4. The Stories of Siva and Sati, and Rishabhadeva and Bharata -2. ================================================================ One day, Sati observed celestials travelling in their aerial cars. She looked up and asked them, “Where are you going?” “You don't know?” asked one of the gods, “How is it that you do not know? Your own father is performing a glorious yajna, to which he has invited all the celestials, and we are all going there. How is it that you, his daughter, do not know?” Sati was in great chagrin that an invitation had not been extended to Siva. She was disturbed that her father had ignored both her and Siva, but as he was her father, she told Siva, “I want to go to my father's yajna.” Lord Siva said, “It is not proper for you to go there.” “Why?” Sati asked. “Daksha d...