Srimad Bhagavatam

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Obeisances to Lord Krishna the Godhead

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Sta Ugrarav, son of Romaharaa, fully satisfied by the perfect questions of the brhmins, thanked them profusely and a reply attempted ,composed

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r Sta said: My obeisances unto Sage Suka on whose samnyasa ,renouncing Sectarian duties abruptly ,his father, Sage Vysadeva, in desperation ,started crying, O my son! and, all trees and beings , empathized in response to father so grieving.

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My obeisances to Sage Suka ,son of Vyasa, who, as the spiritual beacon out of all round experience of the vedic essence ,beaming compassion for those struggling to overcome the darkest of material life, expounded this most discreet essence of Vedic wisdom , well in eternal Truth, founded

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One should pay obeisances to Lord Narayana ere start, thereafter unto Nara-nryana rishi, the supreme human being, unto mother Sarasvat, the goddess of learning, and r Vedavyasa, the author.

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O sages questions by all of you are relevant because such worthy queries in full relate to Lord Krishna and the welfare of the world and these please the soul .

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That sublime duty certainly for mankind is that by which mankind do desireless uninterrupted devotional services unto the Lord by which the devotees self becomes at once completely satisfied.;

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One immediately acquires through devotional service unto Lord r Krishna, spiritual knowledge and detachment from the world.

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The duties a man performs as per his social position are vain if for Lords glories they do not provoke attraction, in main

SB 1.2.9 All professions are only for liberation, never for material gains. Nor ,as per seers, their material gains be used for carnal desires.

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: Never the desires be for sense gratification, profit or existence But for inquiry into Truth, nothing else be aimed by ones works

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Seers say essence of knowledge, non-dual Is called Brahman,Paramatma or Bhagavan

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Sage with dedication knowledge and detachment ingrained Sees the self and the superself worshipfully in Vedas heard

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So for human being, hear me O the twice-born holy Brahmin, Best of ones profession in any class is in Pleasing Lord Krishna

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So, Singleminded,the devotees of the Lord,the Saviour Should hear,chant,worship and meditate Him daily on

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Equipped with this message as the sword, intelligent men cut the knot of actions selfish, thinking of the Lord, and so who will not pay attention to his stories ?.

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O reborn sages! serving those devotees who are cleansed from all vice by listening with deep faith the message,of Krishna,is great service

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Those given to hearing and singing glories of Krishna will in their hearts Certainly see the desire to enjoy purified by the friend of the virtuous.

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Eliminating all that is inauspicious by regular listening of glories of the Lord and serving him in devotion by perfect hymns ,firm faith in Him is established

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Then from ,passion, delusion,lust , greed and other moods The mind stay untouched as pure pleased and thus, good

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With mind thus elevated in worshipful union with Lord by knowledge of the absolute, unassociated and liberated :

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Piercing the knots of the heart,cutting asunder all doubts On seeing the Lord,it weakens ones covetous actions

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. Therefore self of all devotees supremely delighting Ever in worship of Krishna are made enlivened by it. :

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Purity,passion and perversion are the nature associated with the Absolute who accepts the three qualitative forms of Brahma,Vishnu and Shiva regarding creation, maintenance and destruction,of which Vishnu ,the purity form ,can give ultimate benefit to humans

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Smoke to firewood, is better, as latter to earth,all bettered by fire of Vedic function Same way, passion betters perversion, as purity betters passion for Self Realisation

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Previously all the great sages rendered services to the Lord as excellence and purity for the benefit at the end of the eon in this plane of existence

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. Non envious liberation seekers reject demigods horrible in forms , and worship only Lord Narayana the blissful :

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Those of Passion and perversion worship deities of such nature as forefathers or beings that control cosmic forces seeking to enrich material endowments

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Kishna the ultimate vedic goal, Krishna by worshipful sacrifices Krishna for the final union and Krishna the most fruitive activities Krishna is the ultimate wisdom,Krishna the supreme austerities Krishna the ultimate religion Krishna the ultimate goal of all lives

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That alone was manifest first by the Absolute from his Self Evolutions Creating forms of cause and effect through his material and other modes

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Expanding them by these qualities he enters into any mode of these appearences as immanent cause,fully enlightened

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. Exactly as subtle fire engulfs a log of wood , the source of manifestation of all entities,The Cosmic Lord illuminates the living beings in like fashion

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That Lord of Qualities ,by nature created subtle senses of beings And Entering his creation, causes joy in them by the three modes

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By his mode of purity he maintains all these and as master of all the universe Of gods,demigods,men and animals, he indulges in reclaiming the pure of these