Starting of Bhaagavatham

Naarada continues his experiences with god to Vyaasa.As long as I indulge in Naaraayana naamakeerthana,I see his beautiful and elegant form before my eyes.I am so content and happy.Vyaasa!You have explained in detail vedas,upanishaths,brahma soothraas,maahaabhaaratham.You have gorified the importance of Karma kaanda in those things and importance of human relationships.Now,start writing Greatness of Bhagavan and his life history.Then you can rest assured of contentment. After,Narada left,Vyaasa sat quiet in his abode and concentrated about God.He could see God in his entirety.He could perceive maaya ie illusion ,which is in his command.He learnt that to overcome this illusion,Bhakthi bhaavam is the only source.So,he started to write Bhaagavatham. If people hear Bhaagavatham,they are free of fear,sorrow,lust and emotions.He taught Bhaagavatham to his son,Sukudu.Suka maharshi accepted it with utmost reverence.He was chanting and reading this epic daily and improved his bhakthi of Sree Krishna. Dheerulu nirapeksulu naathmaaraamulu naina munulu haribhajanamu ni Shkaaranama cheyuchunduru naaraayanudattivaadu navya charithaa// Sootha told Souna and other sages Bhaagavatham and its importance.

Earlier life of Narada

In earlier life,Narada was a servants son in Brahmins house.In one winter,many brahmins came to their masters house to conduct Chaathurmaasyam.This boy allotted the duty to look after them.They liked his attendance and allowed him to hear their discussions about Sree Krishnas stories,keerthanas and philosophical topics.Slowly,the boy got interested in Sree Krishna and develped Bhakthi.Always ,he was thinking about Vasudeva.Those brahmins taught the sacred and secret Jnaana to the boy before leaving that place.The boy learnt that everything is brahmam.We have to submit to the almighty to secure moksham.If we do karma without having any personalised interest in its result,we gain jnaana ie knowledge.By chanting OM NAMO BHHAGAVATHE VAASUDEVAAYA,VAASUDEVAAYA DHEEMAHI,PRADYUMNAAYA,ANIRUDDHAAYA NAMAH SANKARSHANAAYACHA,ALL THE TIME,WE IBTAIN SALVATION. While the boy was in that house,his mother died of snake bite.Then,the boy left home and reached one big forest.There under a big tree,he sat and practiced dhyaana about god seriously.Then ,he could see the God.He wanted to see God again but could not see. Then,he heard words that because of his attending of great souls ,he could see God.From then on wards,he utilised his entire life in bhakthibhaavam.After that life,he reached brahmalokam.After a very long time,he was born along with Mareechi and Vasishta.Taking the Veena given by god,he started roaming all the worldsw,singing and praising god.He started observing brahmacharya deeksha.

Naarada encourages Vyaasa to write Bhaagavatham

Veda Vyaasa had differentiated and written four Vedaas.He showed his dissatisfaction to Narada that he wanted to do still some more,but he was not sure as what to do.Then Narada replied him in no uncertain terms to what is needed. Vyaasaa! hey great soul!You have written so many epics,vedas ,puraanas and ithihaasaas. You served unaccountable service to the mankind.In Maahabharatha,you wrote Bhagavadgeetha also.There,you just mentioned his traits.You did not praise his greatness anywhere.If people praise his greatness,God would be happy.Even people who praise him will feel happy.Any writing,whi ch does not praise the greatness of god is incomplete.inadequate and uninteresting.Even great people do not enjoy and get involved in it.Where as ,in a book which explains Gods greatness is welcomed and enjoyed by all and sundry even if there be small mistakes.People read such books,enjoy it,make others hear it and relish it.Any act which fails to increase bhakthibhaavam in common man brings unhappiness only. It is not fruitful in reaching its final goal. Vyaasa!you are part and parcel of that great soul.You know the importance of vedas,bhakthibhaava and moksham.You are capable of masking people see god in his original form.You have the caliber to praise God precisely.Your sorrow and feeling of emptiness would leave you if start writing an epic which depicts the life history and related great stories of Vaasudeva,the god.If people read such a book,people would start to diminish theri craving for materialistic benefits and pay interest in increasing Bhakthi bhaavana. As long as man lives,he has to do something to keep himself and his people alivi and happy.But if we dedicate every thing we do and their fruits to God,it is in our best interests.If we do things for our benefit only,we would not achieve that happiness and contentment.Even if we feel,we are benefiting by such deeds,it is only temporary.In the end,they bring grief only.Except those deeds,which are done with Bhakthi bhaavam,all other acts are ending in sorrow and pain to the human being. Once ,we learn the beauty and contentment of Bhagavadarpanam,we strive that for that contentment in our later lives also.Doing the acts physically,like manthra,thanthra,Dhyaana and adhyayana ,do not bring salvation to the soul ultimately. So,Vyasa!please start writing about Gods deeds and greatness.

Veda vyaasa

Veda Vyaasa the gist of all the four Vedas in Bhaagavatham.He taught this to his son,Suka maharshi.Suka maharshi told Bhagavatham to Pareekshiththu and other sages who were present there.Sootha was also there at that time and heard bhagavatham.So,Sootha told Sounaka and other rishis that he would tell BHagavatham to them to the best of his ability. Sathyavathi was born to uparichara vasuvu. Sathyavathi and Paraasara rishi gave birth to Vyaasa.He is also called as Krishna dvaipaayana and Baadaraayana,because Krishnas in him. Veda vyaasa has understood all the vedas.He has known and seen gods nature and activities.One day,he was doing penance on the banks of river,Saraswathi. Then,he could the entry of Kaliyuga.He could also foresee the difficulties of common people .During Kaliyuga,people would have low life sapn. They have limited intelligence.They do not have much strength.They tend to go the wrong way.To simplify Vedas to the facility of common man he divided them into four.He wrote many puranas and ithihaasaas.He told Rigveda to his disciple,Pailudu.He told Yajurveda to Vaisampaayana. He gave Saamaveda to Jaimini. He gave Adharvanavedam to Sumantha.He directed them to tell these vedas to their disciples,and they in turn to their disciples..it should pass on like that.He told Puaranas and Ithihaasaas to Romaharshudu,father ofSootha maharshi. Vyaasa wrote Mahaabharatham ,also called as panchama vedam for the sake of ordinary mortals,women and uneducated people.He introduced Bhagavad geetha also in it.He wrote Brahma soothraas also.Still,he was unhappy.There was no satisfaction even after writing so many epics and puranas.At that time,Narada came to him.Vyasa welcomed him and prayed him with all humility.

About Brahmam

Brahmam is incarnation of knowledge.There is nothing which is either equal to it or above it.It is second to none.It is the greatest among all the things on the face of this world.Brahmam brings knowledge to those who are short of it.It is the reason behind creation.It had been there all along ,even before creation. The thing that is common in both the living and non living is Aaathma.Jeevaathma is in our bodies but due to lack of knowledge it is in a contracted form.While paramaathma ie universal soul has knowledge ,so it is all pervading and omniscent. Bhagavan means he has all the traits like knowledge,power to create and recreate,strength,riches,aura and does not have any cheap traits in him.Brahmam,paramaathma and bhagavan relate to only one thing.But in general,bRAHMAM RELATES to srushti,sdhothi and laya ie creation,maintenance,and destruction. Paramathma eneters into the bodies of all living beings and controls them.The great soul which is devoid of any blemishes and has all the good qualities which are helpful to the world is known as bhagavan ie God. When God has the intention to create,he would create this world through Brahma who is driven by rajo gunam. When he wants to destroy this world,which he himself created,he would mingle with Siva,who has thamo guna,and destroy it.To maintain this world and all its living and non living ,he would show up as saththva guna incarnation of Vishnu.Those who pray this Mahavishnuvu is sure to gain knowledge.You become philosophical and you start to feel detached regarding all the worldly matters.You ,then ,reach salvation ie moksha. Even in vedas,praying of Vaasudeva ,culmination of Saththva guna,is preached.Vaasudeva developed inti Viraat purusha and was being called as Aniruddha. He slept in the water in yoga format.He created a lotus flower from his nabhi.Brahma was created in that lotus flower. Aniruddha had four sons.They were Sanka,Sananda and others.From his celestial body deities and humans have been formed.Gradual his other incarnations were Varaaha,Naarada,Naranaaraayana,Kapila,Daththaathreya,Rushabha,Mathsya,Koorma,Naarasimha,Vaamana,Raama, and Krishna .In these incarnations,he desdtroyed bad people and protected good in the universe.Hesaw that righteousness prevails.He made sure that bhakthi also develops in the mankind.Even sages,Vyaasa,Vasishta,Daksha prajaapathi,manuvulu,Indra and other deities and all others were born with some of his aura. Among all the avatharas,only Rama and Krishna incarnations are complete. Remaining incarnations were created just to fulfill some particular object and then perished. Besides this universe,even the soul ,our thinking ,our pride and prejudices are all the creation of that great soul.Onecan never fully understand Him.If we seek his protection,then only we can understand Him.

Gods creation

Brahma created evry thing on this universe,whether it be living or nonliving.In this creation,there are four kinds.they are deities,humans,animals and staic things like mountains.There is sex difference of male and female.Three differences of Saththva,thaamas a and Rajo gunas have been identified.tO STREAMLENE ,HOW A MAN SHOULD LEAD HISLIFE,FOUR STAGES HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED.tHEY ARE bRAHMACHARYAM,gRUHASTHYAASRAMAM,vAANAPRASDHAASRAMAM,AND sAANNYAASAM.According to the work they undertake,people are differentiated into four groups.They are Braahmana,Kshathriya,Vaisya and soodra communities.To smoothen and direct their lives four procedures are laid down. they are Dharma,ardha,kaama,and moksha paths. To give proper direction to human beings,god has told Vedas through Brahma.Vedas are mainly of two types. One part tells how to minimise our difficulties and be happy.It tells us what to do to gain that happiness.Second part gives us insight as what we are. What is our goal in life.How to achieve it?It tells us to learn about God.It tells us how to reach him and be absorbed by him.Since,common can not learn and digest Vedas and that vast knowledge simply by himself wa born as Baadaraayana.Baadaraayana culminated all the knowledge into one place.To the forepart which is full of acts one has to do,he made his disciple,Jaimini,to writeit.To the post part which is full of knowledge and how to gain it and retain it,he himself had written it. As an explanation to the fore part,he created Mahaabharathamand to the post part,he wrote Bhaagavatham. Yatho vaa imaani bhoothaani jaayanthe,yena jaathaani jeevanthi/ Yath prayanthyabhi samvisantheethi,thadvijijnaasasva thath brahma// Brahmamis nothing but the essence of life a living body undergoes. It tells us how and from where all the life is being born,how it is surviving and in the last,how it is being destroyed where it is mingling..ie these pancha bhoothaas.

Good effects of Bhaagavatham

Sounaka rishi and other sages requested Ugrasrava ie Sootha,who was Romaharshas son,to tell them about bhagavatham.Main reason for asking was that in Kali yuga,People suffer very much in their day to day lives.They are turtured from all angles.After the demise of Sree Krishna,righteousness in people is not there.It is deteriorating fast.Prople are always immersed in ignorance.So,they wanted a way out for the all the people in general. Soothudu saluted Suka devudu,Naranaaraayana,sages,Sree Krishna,Saraswathi,Vyaasa maharshi,and Brahma.He started telling them.Oh great sages!Your eagerness to do some thing good to the entire humanity is very appeasing.Your interest and wish to hear the life od lord Sree Krishna is welcome.Praying Lord Krishna is the best a man can do in his life time.Sree KRISHNA BHAKTHI WOULD TEACH PEOPLE jNAANA AND VAIRAAGYA,WHICH ARE GATE WAYS OF MOKSHA.iF PEOPLE LEAD THEIR LIVES HEARING,SINGING AND MASTERING HIS STORIES,THEY WOULD BE RELIEVED OF THESE MATERIAL ATTACHMENTS IN LIFE.Even ,Krishna would enjoy hearing life stories when people enjoy it. When thsi Bhakthi bhavana cuminates, lust,anger and other narive feelings would diminish.Our thinking would go in the right direction. It would be purified.You would learn about god.He would realise that god is eternal ,omnipotent and all pervading. He is the route cause of entire srushti,sdhithi and laya. These are creation,maintenance and destruction.