Canto 1 | Creation | Chapter 1 | Questions by the Sages | Text 1 | O my Lord, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, son of Vasudeva, O all-pervading Personality of Godhead, I offer my respectful obeisances unto You. I meditate upon Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa because He is the Absolute Truth and the primeval cause of all causes of the creation, sustenance and destruction of the manifested universes. He i… |
Canto 1 | Creation | Chapter 1 | Questions by the Sages | Text 2 | Completely rejecting all religious activities which are materially motivated, this Bhāgavata Purāṇa propounds the highest truth, which is understandable by those devotees who are fully pure in heart. The highest truth is reality distinguished from illusion for the welfare of all. Such truth uproots … |
Canto 1 | Creation | Chapter 1 | Questions by the Sages | Text 3 | O expert and thoughtful men, relish Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, the mature fruit of the desire tree of Vedic literatures. It emanated from the lips of Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī. Therefore this fruit has become even more tasteful, although its nectarean juice was already relishable for all, including liberated sou… |
Canto 1 | Creation | Chapter 1 | Questions by the Sages | Text 4 | Once, in a holy place in the forest of Naimiṣāraṇya, great sages headed by the sage Śaunaka assembled to perform a great thousand-year sacrifice for the satisfaction of the Lord and His devotees. |
Canto 1 | Creation | Chapter 1 | Questions by the Sages | Text 5 | One day, after finishing their morning duties by burning a sacrificial fire and offering a seat of esteem to Śrīla Sūta Gosvāmī, the great sages made inquiries, with great respect, about the following matters. |
Canto 1 | Creation | Chapter 1 | Questions by the Sages | Text 6 | The sages said: Respected Sūta Gosvāmī, you are completely free from all vice. You are well versed in all the scriptures famous for religious life, and in the Purāṇas and the histories as well, for you have gone through them under proper guidance and have also explained them. |
Canto 1 | Creation | Chapter 1 | Questions by the Sages | Text 7 | Being the eldest learned Vedāntist, O Sūta Gosvāmī, you are acquainted with the knowledge of Vyāsadeva, who is the incarnation of Godhead, and you also know other sages who are fully versed in all kinds of physical and metaphysical knowledge. |
Canto 1 | Creation | Chapter 1 | Questions by the Sages | Text 8 | And because you are submissive, your spiritual masters have endowed you with all the favors bestowed upon a gentle disciple. Therefore you can tell us all that you have scientifically learned from them. |
Canto 1 | Creation | Chapter 1 | Questions by the Sages | Text 9 | Please, therefore, being blessed with many years, explain to us, in an easily understandable way, what you have ascertained to be the absolute and ultimate good for the people in general. |
Canto 1 | Creation | Chapter 1 | Questions by the Sages | Text 10 | O learned one, in this iron Age of Kali men almost always have but short lives. They are quarrelsome, lazy, misguided, unlucky and, above all, always disturbed. |