Bhakti-vaibhava

Srimad BhagavatamA First Canto ReviewRev.161130

Anjana Suta Academywww.jayarma.us/archives/godfather-diploma

We assume you’ve read these books beforeSo 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.

Preface / Introduction

SB 1.1: Questions by the Sages

SB 1.2: Divinity and Divine Service

SB 1.3: Krsna Is the Source of All Incarnations

SB 1.4: The Appearance of Śrī Nārada

SB 1.5: Nārada's Instructions on Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam for Vyāsadeva

SB 1.6: Conversation Between Nārada and Vyāsadeva

SB 1.7: The Son of Drona Punished

SB 1.8: Prayers by Queen Kuntī and Parīksit Saved

SB 1.9: The Passing Away of Bhīsmadeva in the Presence of Lord Krsna

SB 1.10: Departure of Lord Krsna for Dvārakā

SB 1.11: Lord Krsna's Entrance into Dvārakā

SB 1.12: Birth of Emperor Parīksit

SB 1.13: Dhrtarāstra Quits Home

SB 1.14: The Disappearance of Lord Krsna

SB 1.15: The Pāndavas Retire Timely

SB 1.16: How Parīksit Received the Age of Kali

SB 1.17: Punishment and Reward of Kali

SB 1.18: Mahārāja Parīksit Cursed by a Brāhmana Boy

SB 1.19: The Appearance of Śukadeva Gosvāmī

With Preface / Introduction, 20-chapters in Canto One

Preface / Introduction

SB 1.1: Questions by the Sages

SB 1.2: Divinity and Divine Service

SB 1.3: Krsna Is the Source of All Incarnations

Suta to the Sages

SB 1.4: The Appearance of Śrī Nārada

SB 1.5: Nārada's In-structions on Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam for Vyāsadeva

SB 1.6: Conversation Between Nārada and Vyāsadeva

Narada to Vyasa

SB 1.7: The Son of Drona Punished

SB 1.8: Prayers by Queen Kuntī and Parīksit Saved

SB 1.9: The Passing Away of Bhīsmadeva in the Presence of Lord Krsna

SB 1.10: Departure of Lord Krsna for Dvārakā

SB 1.11: Lord Krsna's Entrance into Dvārakā

Maharaja Pariksit’sBirth

Antecedents

SB 1.12: Birth of Emperor Parīksit

SB 1.13: Dhrtarāstra Quits Home

SB 1.14: The Disappear-ance of Lord Krsna

SB 1.15: The Pāndavas Retire Timely

SB 1.16: How Parīksit Received the Age of Kali

Maharaja Pariksit’sBirth

Epilogue

SB 1.16: How Parīksit Received the Age of Kali

SB 1.17: Punishment and Reward of Kali

SB 1.18: Mahārāja Parīksit Cursed by a Brāhmana Boy

SB 1.19: The Appearance of Śukadeva Gosvāmī

Maharaja Pariksit MeetsSukadeva Goswami

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.

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.

The Memorization Verses are also in the tpp-bv.doc.

Go to the next slide after you finish the first Module.

MODULE ONEREVIEW

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.

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.a) Did you keep good association

while you reviewed Module One?

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

c) Did you really do the cement-floor work at hand: Augment your Book Maps, Index and sharpen up you memory cap?

Was this Module Review fun?

Self evaluation.

Preface1) What is the first sentence of the Preface?

2) T/F - The Preface will serve as an Introduction and Mission Statement for ISKCON?

3) “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.”

4) “SB will teach us how to live together in p___________, pr_________ and fr________, with a c_________ c__________.”

5) “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.”

Preface (cont’d)6. “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 …”

7. “One is sure to become a G__-________ s____ at the end of finishing the first nine cantos.”

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 Summary1. Lord Caitanya was born at N________ on the F_____ M_____

day.

2. He took Sannyasa at the age of __ years.

3. T/F – He lived stayed at Jagannatha Puri without traveling, doing Krsna Bhajan for the rest of his life.

Can you write, present, a biography of Lord Caitanya including all the following facts (and more)?

Biographical Details1. LC was born at N__________.

2. His mother and father’s names were S_______ & J_______.

3. His paternal grandfather was N_________ C__________.

4. His older brother was V____________.

5. His birth name was V_____bh_______, but he was called N______.

6. He married Srimati L_________

7. She departed and He married Srimati V__________

8. “The readers of this small description of the life and precepts of Lord Caitanya will profit much to go through the books of Śrīla Vrndāvana dāsa Thākura (Śrī C_______-bh_______) and Śrīla Krsnadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī (Śrī C_______-c_________).”

9. All the books dealing with the Lord were composed on the basis of kadacās (notebooks) by Śrīla D_______ Gosvāmī and M_____ G____.

10. “Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī, in order to please the Lord, composed a grammar in Sanskrit known as H___-n________-v_________”

11. “A great Kashmir scholar named K_____ K______ came to Navadvīpa to hold discussions on the śāstras.”

12. Muslim magistrate at Nava- dvīpa was called the K___.

13. “Whoever 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______.”

14. “Śrīla N_________ P_____and Th_____ H_______ were two chief Sankiritana whips.”

15. “His headquarters were situated at the house of … Ś______Th_____ and Śrī A______P______”.

16. “J____ and M____, were creating a public disturbance in a drunken state”.

17. “When M_____ again attempted to hurt Nityānanda Prabhu, J____ stopped him”.

18. “He accepted the Sannyāsa order from K_____ Bh_____.”

19. “Thus at the end of His ___ year the Lord accepted the sannyāsa order.”

20. “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]

16. The Six Goswamis were headed by Śrīla _____ and ______, who were deputed to go to Vrndāvana to _____________.

17. “After Sannyasa He visited the temple of Gopīnāthajī, who had stolen condensed milk for Śrīla M___________ Purī. .

18. “S__________ Bhattācārya was the Pandita in the court of Mahārāja P__________.”

19. “The Lord then proceeded towards South India. He met Śrīla R________ R____, the governor of Madras.”

20. “ The great saint of Mahārāstra, Saint T________ was also initiated by the Lord.”

21. “The Lord excavated from South India two very important old literatures,, the B______-s_______ and K_____-k________.”

22. “As long as the Lord remained at Purī devotees came to see Him during the R____-y____”.

23. “The Lord again started on His tour deciding to visit V_______. He passed through Jh________ forest on the way.”

24. “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 __________.

25. In Varanasi “a great meeting of Sannyasis was arranged including the Lord and P_________ S_______.”

26. “The Lord left only eight ślokas: Write One and Three.”

MODULE ONEREVIEW

Chapter One

Questions by the Sages

1. Why do they select S___ Goswami as their Teacher?2. How many questions are there? What questions do they ask him?3. S_______ Rsi asks the questions and praises S________ G. What are the Rsi’s

qualifications to do this?4. Chapter One is mostly composed of the first three verses. What do they

include?5. Where is the event? What is the character of that place? 6. “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.”

7. “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 1.1.6

MODULE ONEREVIEW

Chapter Two

Divinity and Divine Service

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.

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.1. 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?1. What is the answer to the first question by the Sages (Sanskrit and English,

please!).2. Two other Vedic principles are discussed: Jnana and v__________. Which

verse declares that these are a rapid result of Bhakti?3. The words yayātmā suprasīdati appear in 1.2-5&6. What do they mean?

1. 1.2.6 – What are pravrtti-mārga and nivrtti-mārga? 

2. Dharma is “that which_______ ____ _________”.3. 1.2.10 – What does jīvasya tattva-jijñāsā mean?

(Cited in NOI also)4. “One should satisfy the senses only in so much as

required for s___-pr__________”.5. 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.

6. 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_________________.

7. 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__________.”

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 Krsna is like the sun, and the materialistic speculations about the Absolute Truth are like the darkest midnight. As soon as the Krsna 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).

SB 1.2.28-29VĀSUDEVA-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.

Then the chapter finishes off 1.2.30-34 with excellent description of the Purusa avatar. How does this lead to the next chapter?

Thank you.Our next

PPTX will be Module Two

Review

MODULE ONEREVIEW

Chapter Three

Krsna Is the Source of All Incarnations

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.

1. Texts 14 & 20 are very practical about our philosophy of good government. Whose responsible for removing a bad King, President?

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

3. 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.

1. The first puruṣa is the K____________ Visnu. From His skin holes innumerable universes have sprung up. In each and every universe, the puruṣa enters as the G___________Visnu.

2. 1.3.3 – “The conception of the virāṭ-rūpa or viśva-rūpa of the Supreme Absolute Truth is especially meant for the n_______.”

3. “In different millennia there are different incarnations, such as Ma____, Kūr__, Var___, Rā__, Nrs___, Vām___and many others.

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

2. 1.3.8 – “Nārada is the author of N_____-p________.

3. 1.3.11 – “The Lord incarnated Himself as D________, the son of Ṛsi Atri and A_______.”

4. 1.3.13 – “In the sannyāsa order there are four stages called k_______, b_______, p_________, and p_______.

5. SB 1.3.28ete cāṁśa-kalāḥ puṁsaḥ krṣṇas tu bhagavān svayamindrāri-vyākulaṁ lokaṁ mrdayanti yuge yugeTranslation?

1. SB 1.3.40idaṁ bhāgavataṁ nāma purāṇaṁ brahma-sammitamuttama-śloka-caritaṁ cakāra bhagavān rṣiḥniḥśreyasāya lokasya dhanyaṁ svasty-ayanaṁ mahatTranslation?2. SB 1.3.43krṣṇe sva-dhāmopagate dharma-jñānādibhiḥ sahakalau naṣṭa-drśām eṣa purāṇārko ’dhunoditaḥTranslation?

3. 1.3.44 “ yathādhītaṁ yathā-mati” Translation?

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