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Bhakti-vaibhava

Srimad BhagavatamA First Canto ReviewRev.161130

Anjana Suta Academy

www.jayarma.us/archives/godfather-diplomaSlide2

We assume you’ve read these books before

So we’ll move fast, so you don’t snore.Let’s divide the Canto,Into Five Parts.Then we’ll review one a week,

And test to see if you know it by heart.Slide3

Preface / Introduction

SB 1.1: Questions by the SagesSB 1.2: Divinity and Divine ServiceSB 1.3: Kṛṣṇa Is the Source of All IncarnationsSB 1.4: The Appearance of Śrī NāradaSB 1.5: Nārada's Instructions on Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam for VyāsadevaSB 1.6: Conversation Between Nārada and VyāsadevaSB 1.7: The Son of Droṇa PunishedSB 1.8: Prayers by Queen Kuntī and Parīkṣit SavedSB 1.9: The Passing Away of Bhīṣmadeva in the Presence of Lord Kṛṣṇa

SB 1.10: Departure of Lord Kṛṣṇa for Dvārakā

SB 1.11: Lord Kṛṣṇa's Entrance into Dvārakā

SB 1.12: Birth of Emperor Parīkṣit

SB 1.13: Dhṛtarāṣṭra Quits Home

SB 1.14: The Disappearance of Lord Kṛṣṇa

SB 1.15: The Pāṇḍavas Retire TimelySB 1.16: How Parīkṣit Received the Age of KaliSB 1.17: Punishment and Reward of KaliSB 1.18: Mahārāja Parīkṣit Cursed by a Brāhmaṇa BoySB 1.19: The Appearance of Śukadeva Gosvāmī

With Preface / Introduction, 20-chapters in Canto OneSlide4

Preface / IntroductionSB 1.1: Questions by the Sages

SB 1.2: Divinity and Divine ServiceSB 1.3: Kṛṣṇa Is the Source of All IncarnationsSuta to the SagesSlide5

SB 1.4: The Appearance of Śrī NāradaSB 1.5: Nārada's In

-structions on Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam for VyāsadevaSB 1.6: Conversation Between Nārada and VyāsadevaNarada to VyasaSlide6

SB 1.7: The Son of Droṇa PunishedSB 1.8: Prayers by Queen Kuntī and Parīkṣit Saved

SB 1.9: The Passing Away of Bhīṣmadeva in the Presence of Lord KṛṣṇaSB 1.10: Departure of Lord Kṛṣṇa for DvārakāSB 1.11: Lord Kṛṣṇa's Entrance into DvārakāMaharaja Pariksit’sBirth

AntecedentsSlide7

SB 1.12: Birth of Emperor ParīkṣitSB 1.13: Dhṛtarāṣṭra Quits Home

SB 1.14: The Disappear-ance of Lord KṛṣṇaSB 1.15: The Pāṇḍavas Retire TimelySB 1.16: How Parīkṣit Received the Age of KaliMaharaja Pariksit’s

Birth

EpilogueSlide8

SB 1.16: How Parīkṣit Received the Age of KaliSB 1.17: Punishment and Reward of Kali

SB 1.18: Mahārāja Parīkṣit Cursed by a Brāhmaṇa BoySB 1.19: The Appearance of Śukadeva GosvāmīMaharaja Pariksit MeetsSukadeva GoswamiSlide9

Srila Prabhupada tells us why he is translating

Srimad Bhagavatam and introduces Lord Chaitanya, the ideal preacher of Srimad Bhagavatam.Then Sages give Suta Goswami a proper seat and ask him what is the essence of Dharma, the current shelter of religion etc.He answers and concludes that Srimad Bhagavatam is the current incarnation of God.They ask why, after writing all the Vedas Srila Vyasadeva wrote the Srimad Bhagavatam.This came from the meeting of Vyasa with Narada Muni.Deciding to tell the

Srimad Bhagavatam

to the Sages, Suta Goswami, begins with the antecedents, the birth of Maharaja Pariksit and the retiring of the Pandavas, but he also amplifies the conditions at the time of Maharaja Pariksit’s birth, such as the passing away of Bhismadeva. and returning to Maharaja’s birth he then describes the passing of Dhrtarastra and the Pandavas, and then much later how Maharaja Pariksit ruled and this led to his meeting Sukadeva Goswami.

Do you agree with this summary? You will have this as an essay question, and in the short answer questions.Slide10

Read, review, all the material in Module One: Preface through Chapter Three.

You can use Bhurijan, VIHE, Mayapur Institute, ISV study guides as you like, but collect specific entries for your Index for your preaching and your twenty-five pages of Essay writing for Cantos One and Two.

Pssst

! Some suggested Essay Topics are at

http://www.jayarama.us/archives/tpp-bv.doc

, page 64, and you can always write on other things if you get the Boss’s approval.Slide11

The Memorization

Verses are also in the tpp-bv.doc.Go to the next slide after you finish the first Module.Slide12

Module one

reviewSlide13

I am ashamed to come before you but I just had to say that your knowledge of Sastra is so wonderful that I had to catch you in this solitary place and tell you that you are wonderful, so respectable.Slide14

This time, this place, this ISKCON, what can we do for you? We are only cats looking at Kings, but do the Witches words have a ting and ring???

We can only give a general call, the evaluation for this diploma is really between you and Krsna, that’s all.Did you keep good association while you reviewed Module One?

Prioritize your readings, minimize things that you would like to have done?

Did you really do the cement-floor work at hand: Augment your

B

ook Maps, Index and sharpen up you memory cap?Slide15

Was this Module Review fun?Slide16

Self evaluation.

PrefaceWhat is the first sentence of the Preface?T/F - The Preface will serve as an Introduction and Mission Statement for ISKCON?“Studying SB will make the reader sufficiently strong to defend himself against the onslaught of a_________ and convince others of the existence of God as c__________ fact.”“SB will teach us how to live together in p___________,

pr

_________ and

fr

________, with a c_________ c__________.”

“

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam should be introduced also in the s______ and c_________, for it is recommended by the great student-devotee P________ M_______ in order to change the demoniac face of society.”Slide17

Preface (cont’d)

“The only qualification one needs to study this great book of transcendental knowledge is to proceed s____by s_____ cautiously and not j____ f_______ haphazardly …”“One is sure to become a G__-________ s____ at the end of finishing the first nine cantos.”Slide18

Introduction“The conception of

G__ and the conception of A________ T____ are not on the same level. The Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam hits on the target of the A_______T____. The conception of G___ indicates the c__________, whereas the conception of the A________ T_____ indicates the s______ b______ or the ultimate source of all e________”.Why is a short sketch of Lord

Caitanya’s

life and precepts is

inserted in the Introduction to SB?

Biographical Summary

Lord Caitanya was born at N________ on the F_____ M_____ day.He took Sannyasa at the age of __ years.T/F – He lived stayed at Jagannatha Puri without traveling, doing Krsna Bhajan for the rest of his life.Slide19

Can you write, present, a biography of Lord

Caitanya including all the following facts (and more)?Slide20

Biographical Details

LC was born at N__________.His mother and father’s names were S_______ & J_______.His paternal grandfather was N_________ C__________.His older brother was V____________.His birth name was V_____bh_______, but he was called N______.He married Srimati L_________

She departed and He married Srimati V__________

“

The readers of this small description of the life and precepts of Lord Caitanya will profit much to go through the books of Śrīla Vṛndāvana dāsa Ṭhākura (Śrī

C

_______

-bh_______) and Śrīla Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī (Śrī C_______-c_________).”Slide21

All

the books dealing with the Lord were composed on the basis of kaḍacās (notebooks) by Śrīla D_______ Gosvāmī and M_____ G____.“Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī, in order to please the Lord,

composed

a grammar in

Sanskrit

known as

H___-n________-v_________”

“A great Kashmir scholar named K_____ K______ came to Navadvīpa to hold discussions on the śāstras.”Muslim magistrate at Nava- dvīpa was called the K___.

“

W

hoever

stood against this propagation of the

yuga-dharma

was

properly

punished by various types of chastisement. C_____ and G_____,

who also happened to be maternal uncles of the Lord, were inflicted with

l______.”

“

Śrīla

N

_________

P

_____

and Ṭh

_____

H

_______

were two chief

Sankiritana

whips

.”

“

His headquarters were situated at the house

of

… Ś______

Ṭh

_____ and

Śrī

A______P

______”.Slide22

“J____ and M____, were creating a public disturbance in a drunken

state”.“When M_____ again attempted to hurt Nityānanda Prabhu, J____ stopped him”.“He accepted the Sannyāsa order from K_____

Bh

_____.”

“

Thus at the end of His

___ year

the Lord accepted the sannyāsa order.”“After He accepted sannyāsa His chief assistants became Śrīla Nityānanda Prabhu, who was deputed to preach specifically in ______, and the six Gosvāmīs [ Write their names]

The Six

Goswamis

were h

eaded

by Śrīla

_____

and

______

,

who were deputed to go to Vṛndāvana to

_____________.

“After

Sannyasa

He visited

the temple of

Gopīnāthajī

, who had stolen condensed milk

for

Śrīla

M___________

Purī

. 

.

“S__________

Bhaṭṭācārya

was

the

P

aṇḍita

in the court

of

Mahārāja

P__________.”

“

The Lord then proceeded towards South

India.

He met

Śrīla

R________ R____,

the governor of

Madras.”

“

 The great saint of

Mahārāṣṭra

, Saint T________ was

also initiated by the Lord

.”

“

The Lord excavated from South India two very important old

literatures,, the B______-s_______

and

K_____-k________.”Slide23

“As long as the Lord remained at

Purī devotees came to see Him during the R____-y____”.“The Lord again started on His tour deciding to visit V_______. He passed through Jh________ forest on the way.”“On His way back from

V_______ He

first came to

P______,

where He met

___________

along with his younger brother, _________. Then He came down to B______ _ and instructed Śrī __________.In Varanasi “a great meeting of Sannyasis was arranged including the Lord and P_________ S_______.”“The Lord left only eight ślokas: Write One and Three.”Slide24

Module one

review

Chapter One

Questions by the SagesSlide25

Why do they select S___ Goswami as their Teacher?

How many questions are there? What questions do they ask him?S_______ Rsi asks the questions and praises S________ G. What are the Rsi’s qualifications to do this?Chapter One is mostly composed of the first three verses. What do they include?Where is the event? What is the character of that place?

“

SB

1.1.22

 — We think that we have met Your Goodness by the

w___ of p_________,

just so that we may accept you as c_______ of the s___ for those who desire to cross the difficult ocean of Kali, which deteriorates all the good qualities of a human being.”“A gosvāmī, or the bona fide representative of Śrī V_______, must be free from all kinds of vices. The four major vices of Kali-yuga are…. No one should be allowed to sit on the v________ who is not freed from the above-mentioned vices. He must also be well versed in the Vedas. The P______ are also parts of the Vedas.

And

histories like the 

M__________

or 

R_______

are also parts of the 

Vedas.

To

hear and e________ them is more important than r_______ them.” – SB 1.1.6Slide26

Module one

review

Chapter Two

Divinity and Divine ServiceSlide27

Chapter Two34 VersesSB 1.2.1 -

Ugraśravā [Sūta Gosvāmī], the son of R__________, being fully satisfied by the q______ of the s__, thanked them and thus __________.1.2.2 - Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto Śukadeva Gosvāmī who can e____ the h_____ of all. He went leaving home without undergoing the s_____ th___ceremony. His father, cried out and the t____echoed in response.

The questions are easy for Cantos One and Two, Freshman year of college, but Canto Three starts to get intense, doorway of

Vaikuntha

.Slide28

Why would we want to study this chapter? What does it add to our Bhakti-sastri

studies?It does give a wonderful discussion of the first question by the sages: What is the essence of Dharma.Dharma is the first in a list of four goals of human life. What are the other three? Which verse, which is cited

in NOI, gives a relation with all four of these? They have little bit different names in this verse. What are the names given there?

What is the answer to the first question by the Sages (Sanskrit and English, please!).

Two other Vedic principles are discussed: Jnana and v__________. Which verse declares that these are a rapid result of Bhakti?

The words

yayātmā

suprasīdati appear in 1.2-5&6. What do they mean?Slide29

1.2.6 – What are pravṛtti-mārga

and nivṛtti-mārga? Dharma is “that which_______ ____ _________”.1.2.10 – What does jīvasya tattva-jijñāsā mean? (Cited in NOI also)“One should satisfy the senses only in so much as required for s___-

pr

__________”.

1.2.11 – “The

same substance is realized as

B______ by

the students of the Upaniṣads, as localized P________ by the H____________or the yogīs, and as Bh______by the devotees.1.2.13 – . . . saṁsiddhir hari-toṣaṇam “Human

society all over the world is divided into four castes and four orders of

life, and

in each and every one of

them

the

aim must be

to_________________.

1.2.14 -

tasmād

ekena

manasā

,

bhagavān

sātvatāṁ

patiḥ

,

śrotavyaḥ

kīrtitavyaś

ca,

dhyeyaḥ

pūjyaś

ca

nityadā

. “”

Any man from any social status becomes a well-known man in human society within a very short time if he is simply glorified truly or falsely in the

d____ n__________.”Slide30

1.2.15 - Karma 

ov________ with devotional service is called karma-yoga. Similarly, empirical knowledge ov________ with devotional service is called jñāna-yoga. But pure bhakti-yoga is independent of such karma and jñāna because it alone can not only endow one with liberation from conditional life but also award one the t_______________ l_____ s_______ of t__ L____.

1.2.16 & 17 (

srnvatam

sva-katha

krsna), describe those with no taste for hearing and chanting can acquire it. How it that?1.2.21 “Śrī Kṛṣṇa is like the sun, and the materialistic speculations about the Absolute Truth are like the darkest midnight. As soon as the Kṛṣṇa sun is arisen within one’s heart, the darkness of materialistic speculations about the Absolute Truth and the living beings is at once cleared off.  What is the Bengali and English for the verse from CC that Srila Prabhupada is paraphrasing here? We saw it in NOI(8).Slide31

SB 1.2.28-29

vāsudeva-parā

vedā

vāsudeva-parā

makhāḥ

vāsudeva-parā

yogā

vāsudeva-parāḥ

kriyāḥ

vāsudeva-paraṁ

jñānaṁ

vāsudeva-paraṁ

tapaḥ

vāsudeva-paro

dharmo

vāsudeva-parā

gatiḥ

Please give us a rough translation of this verse.Slide32

Then the chapter finishes off 1.2.30-34 with excellent description of the

Purusa avatar. How does this lead to the next chapter?Slide33

Thank you.

Our next PPTX will be Module Two ReviewSlide34

Module one

review

Chapter Three

Kṛṣṇa

Is the Source of All IncarnationsSlide35
Slide36

Read our Chapter Study Guide at:

http://www.jayarama.us/archives/tpp-bv.doc?It seems nice.Map this Chapter?How many of the Ten Incarnations from the

Dasa-avatara-strotra

are mentioned in this chapter? Srila Prabhupada wanted us to

sing it on festival days of the appropriate

incarnation.

If

you memorize the corresponding verse on the day of that incarnation, within one year you will know most of them! Every Bhakti-vaibhavin, Sannyasi should know this, no?SB 1.3.7 — The supreme enjoyer of all sacrifices accepted the incarnation of a boar [the second incarnation], and for the welfare of the earth He lifted the earth from the nether regions of the universe.What is the Dasa-avatara-stotra

verse for this incarnation.Slide37

Texts 14 & 20 are

very practical about our philosophy of good government. Whose responsible for removing a bad King, President

?

Which

Text

is

nice for your Index on Buddha? "Hey, Hare Krsna, what do you guys have to say about Buddha?“

SB

1.3.2

– “

A part of the

puruṣa

lies down within the water of the universe, from the

n____ l___

of His body sprouts a

l____ s___,

and from the

l____ f_____ atop

this stem,

B_____,

the master of all engineers in the universe, becomes manifest

.

The first 

puruṣa

 is the

K____________

Viṣṇu

. From His skin holes innumerable universes have sprung up. In each and every universe, the 

puruṣa

 enters as the

G___________

Viṣṇu

.

1.3.3 – “

The conception of the 

virāṭ-rūpa

 or 

viśva-rūpa

 of the Supreme Absolute Truth is especially meant for the

n_______.”

“

In different millennia there are different

incarnations, such

as

Ma____,

Kūr

__,

Var

___,

Rā

__,

Nṛs

___,

Vām

___and

many others

.Slide38

 Lord Śiva is in the marginal position between the P_______ of G_____ and

the __________.1.3.8 – “Nārada is the author of N_____-p________.1.3.11 – “The Lord incarnated Himself as D________, the son of Ṛṣi Atri and A_______.”1.3.13 – “

In the 

sannyāsa

order there

are four stages

called k_______, b_______, p_________, and p_______.SB 1.3.28ete cāṁśa-kalāḥ puṁsaḥ kṛṣṇas tu bhagavān svayamindrāri-vyākulaṁ

lokaṁ

mṛḍayanti

yuge

yuge

Translation?

SB

1.3.40

idaṁ

bhāgavataṁ

nāma

purāṇaṁ

brahma-

sammitam

uttama-śloka-caritaṁ

cakāra

bhagavān

ṛṣiḥ

niḥśreyasāya

lokasya

dhanyaṁ

svasty-ayanaṁ

mahat

Translation?

SB 1.3.43

kṛṣṇe

sva-dhāmopagate

 dharma-

jñānādibhiḥ

saha

kalau

naṣṭa-dṛśām

eṣa

purāṇārko

’

dhunoditaḥ

Translation?

1.3.44 “

yathādhītaṁ

yathā-mati

”

Translation?Slide39

Thank you!