Even after he has composed the awesome Mahabharata, the Maharishi Vyasa finds no peace. Narada Muni says to him, 'Ordinary men will be delighted by your work, but what about the sages of heaven and earth? Can swans that swim upon the Manasa Sarovara be delighted by the lakes of Bharatavarsha? You have described the human life, its strife and its ends, but you have not yet described the Lord himself. You must turn your great gift to that task; only then will you find peace.'
Veda Vyasa composes the Bhagavata Purana, in eighteen thousand slokas and twelve kandas. He teaches it to his illumined son Suka, who narrates the 'Secret Purana' (which even the Devas do not possess, which Ananta Sesha recites from his thousand mouths) to Yudhishtira's heir, King Parikshit, on the banks of the Ganga.
No other Indian scripture claims that it can bestow Moksha merely by being heard; but the Bhagavata Purana is a living embodiment of the Lord Narayana.
Just before Krishna, the Avatara, leaves the world, Uddhava says to him, 'The kali yuga has begun and evil will rise up and seize the earth. Who will be our light in the gathering night? Leave us a tangible form, Lord, in which we can find you, touch you, and be near you.
Krishna enters the Bhagavata Purana with all of his being: to read this amrita Purana is to be with Krishna. It consumes the sins of a million lives, it bestows untold fortune, and it is said to be the rarest treasure on earth.
This book is a full literary rendering of the Bhagavata Purana, bringing all the wonder, wisdom and grace of the Book of God to the modern reader.
Ramesh Menon was born in 1951 in New Delhi. He has retold the Siva Purana and the Devi Bhagavati, written modern renderings of the Mahabharata and Ramayana, and juxtaposed the holy Bhagavad Gita and Krishna's life from the Bhagavata Purana in his book Krishna: Life and Song of the Blue God.
Acknowledgements | xvii |
SKANDHA 1 | 1 |
In the Naimisa Vana | 3 |
Narada and Bhakti | 5 |
The Secret Purana | 11 |
Atmaveda, the Brahmana | 17 |
The Two Brothers | 22 |
SKANDHA 2 | 31 |
Vyasa and Narada | 33 |
Narada's past life | 36 |
The Story of Parikshit | 40 |
A Sudra, a Bull and a Cow | 41 |
The Curse | 44 |
On the Banks of the Ganga | 47 |
Virata Purusha | 50 |
The Way of Dhyana | 52 |
Narada Questions Brahma | 56 |
Creation | 59 |
The Avataras of the Lord | 63 |
Whom the Lord Blesses | 67 |
Parikshit's Questions | 70 |
Suka Replies | 72 |
SKANDHA 3 | 75 |
Krishna, Uddhava and Vidura | 77 |
The Beginning of Creation | 79 |
Adi Varaha | 83 |
Daksha's Daughter, Diti | 85 |
The Arrogant Dwarapalakas | 88 |
Kardama's Penance | 97 |
Devahuti | 102 |
The Perfect Wife | 105 |
Kapila Vasudeva | 110 |
Devahuti and her Son | 113 |
Samkhya: the Teachings of Kapila | 117 |
The Ashtanga Yoga, the Eight-Fold Path | 125 |
Bhakti Yoga, and the Power of Time | 129 |
Samsara and the Narakas | 133 |
The Torments of the Jiva, the Rajasi Gati | 136 |
Bhaktiyoga, the High Road | 139 |
The Enlightenment of Devahuti | 142 |
SKANDHA 4 | 147 |
Svayambhuva Manu's Daughters | 149 |
Daksha and Siva | 155 |
On Kailasa | 159 |
The Razing of Daksha's Yagna | 166 |
The Mercy of Siva | 169 |
The Tale of Dhruva | 177 |
Dhruva invades Alaka | 188 |
The Descendants of Dhruva | 195 |
Vena and the Birth of Prithu | 200 |
Prithu's Anger at the Earth | 208 |
Prithu's Anger at the Earth | 213 |
The Sons of Prithu | 227 |
The Prachetases | 246 |
Nabhi and the Birth of Rishabha | 258 |
Bharata, the Great | 267 |
Jada Bharata | 271 |
The Palanquin Bearer | 276 |
Bharata's Dynasty | 284 |
The Geography of Legend | 287 |
The Six Other Dwipas | 297 |
The Sun | 303 |
The Moon and the Planets | 305 |
Vishnupada: Dhruva and the Sishumara Chakra | 307 |
The Narakas | 314 |
SKANDHA 6 | 319 |
The Story of Ajamila | 321 |
The Descendants of Daksha | 330 |
Brihaspati Forsakes the Devas | 339 |
Vritrasura | 346 |
Indra | 355 |
The Curse of Parvati | 367 |
The Birth of the Maruts | 370 |
SKANDHA 7 | 379 |
The Lord is not Partial | 381 |
Diti Consoled | 385 |
Hiranyakashyapu's and Tapasya | 391 |
Hiranyakashyapu and Prahlada | 395 |
Prahlada's Sermon | 405 |
Knowing the Self | 409 |
The Death of Hiranyakashyapu | 415 |
The Hymn of Prahlada | 422 |
The Story of Prahlada | 431 |
The Varnas of Men and their Dharma | 438 |
The Dharma of Brahmacharins and Vanaprasthas | 443 |
The Sannyasi's Way | 447 |
The Way of the Grihasta | 453 |
Moksha, the Final Ideal | 458 |
SKANDHA 8 | 467 |
The First Four Manvantaras | 469 |
The Lord of Elephants in Danger | 473 |
The Hymn of Gajendra | 477 |
The Lineage of Gajendra | 481 |
Before the Churning of the Kshirasagara | 485 |
The Later Hymn of Brahma | 492 |
Kaalakuta | 497 |
Lakshmi, Amrita and Mohini | 504 |
The Drinking of the Amrita | 511 |
Devasura Yuddha | 515 |
Victory | 521 |
Mohini | 526 |
The Last Seven Manvantaras | 532 |
The Manvantara | 536 |
The Ascent of Mahabali | 538 |
Kashyapa teaches Aditi the Payovrata | 544 |
Aditi's Vision | 551 |
Vamana Comes to Mahabali's Yagna | 555 |
What the Vamana Wanted | 559 |
The Vamana Reveals Himself | 564 |
Bali Bound | 569 |
Bali Saved | 572 |
Bali Goes to Sutala | 576 |
The Matsya Avatara | 580 |
SKANDHA 9 | 587 |
The Tale of Sudyumna | 589 |
Manu's Other Sons and their Descendants | 594 |
The Line of Saryaati | 598 |
The Tale of Ambareesha | 604 |
Durvasa and Ambareesha | 612 |
The Line of Ambareesha | 616 |
The Line of Mandhata | 623 |
The Legend of Sagara | 627 |
Amshuman to Khatvaanga | 631 |
Rama Avatara | 638 |
Uttara Ramayana | 648 |
Kusa and his Descendants | 654 |
The Lineage of Nimi | 656 |
Pururavas of the House of the Moon | 659 |
The Legend of Parasurama | 565 |
The Bloodletting | 670 |
Pururavas' Other Descendants | 674 |
Yayati and Devayani | 676 |
Yayati's Relinquishment | 681 |
Dushyanta and Bharata | 684 |
Ranti Deva, the Kind One | 689 |
Bheeshma, Kuru, the Pandavas and Others | 693 |
The Sons of Yayati and their Sons | 699 |
The Lineage of Krishna | 704 |
SKANDHA 10 | 711 |
Krishna | 713 |
Before the Lord's Birth | 720 |
The Birth of Krishna | 726 |
The Devi | 732 |
In Gokula | 737 |
Putana Moksha | 740 |
Shakatasura and Trinavarta | 745 |
Krishna's Boyhood | 750 |
Damodara | 756 |
The Salvation of Kubera's Sons | 760 |
Leaving Gokula: the slaying of Vatsa and Baka | 766 |
The Liberation of Aghasura | 773 |
Brahma Tests Krishna | 779 |
Brahma's Stotra | 786 |
Dhenuka Moksha | 795 |
The Chastening of Kaliya | 801 |
More about Kaliya | 809 |
Pralamba | 812 |
Another Fire in the Forest | 816 |
The Seasons | 818 |
The Songs of the Gopis | 824 |
The Gopis' Clothes | 828 |
Moksha for the Brahmana Wives | 833 |
The Indra Yagna | 840 |
A Mountain Lifted | 844 |
They Declare he is God | 847 |
Krishna Govinda | 850 |
The Vision of Brahman and Vaikuntha | 854 |
Rasalila: with Gopis | 856 |
The Gopis Separated from Krishna | 863 |
The Song of the Gopis | 868 |
Krishna Reappears | 872 |
Raasa Krida: the Dance of Love | 876 |
The Salvation of Sudarshana and Sankhachuda | 882 |
Yugala Gitam | 886 |
Kamsa's Resolve | 889 |
The Slaying of Kesin and Vyomasura | 896 |
Akrura comes to Gokula | 900 |
Departure for Mathura | 906 |
Akrura Hymns Krishna | 913 |
In Mathura | 918 |
Before the Wrestling | 924 |
Kuvalayapida | 929 |
The Depth of Kamsa | 934 |
After Kamsa's Death | 940 |
Uddhava goes to Vraja | 946 |
Uddhava and the Gopis | 952 |
Trivakra and Akrura | 962 |
Akrura's Mission | 966 |
Jarasandha | 970 |
Muchukunda finds Grace | 977 |
Jarasandha Again, and the Message from Rukmini | 983 |
The Abduction of Rukmini | 988 |
Krishna Marries Rukmini | 994 |
The Birth of Pradyumna | 1000 |
The Syamantaka | 1004 |
The Later Story of the Syamantaka | 1008 |
The Wives of Krishna | 1012 |
The Slaying of Naraka | 1019 |
The Killing of Rukmi | 1032 |
Aniruddha and Usha | 1037 |
The rescue of Aniruddha | 1041 |
The Tale of Nriga | 1047 |
Balarama and Yamuna | 1052 |
Paundraka | 1056 |
Dwividha | 1061 |
Samba and the Kurus | 1064 |
Krishna, the Grihasta | 1070 |
Two Messengers in Dwaraka | 1076 |
To Indraprastha | 1082 |
Jarasandha | 1089 |
The Liberated Kings | 1095 |
Sishupala of Chedi | 1099 |
The Humiliation of Duryodhana | 1105 |
Salva | 1111 |
Salva Dies | 1115 |
Dantavakra Moksha | 1120 |
The killing of Balvala and Balarama's Tirtha Yatra | 1125 |
The Tale of Sridama | 1129 |
Grace | 1135 |
Festival at Samantapanchaka | 1141 |
Krishna's Wives Speak of Him | 1148 |
Vasudeva's Yagna at Samantapanchaka | 1154 |
Krishna and his Parents | 1162 |
The Marriage of Subhadra and the Tale of Srutadeva | 1170 |
He Vedas | 1178 |
The Tale of Vrikasura and Rudra | 1194 |
The Brahmana's Children | 1201 |
Krishna, the Perfect | 1201 |
SKANDHA 11 | 1209 |
A Final Task | 1211 |
The Sermon of the Navayogis | 1215 |
The Sermon of the Navayogis (Continued) | 1222 |
The Sermon of the Navayogis (Continued) | 1230 |
The Sermon of the Navayogis (Continued) | 1235 |
Krishna Near the End of His Avatara | 1242 |
Uddhava Gita: The Avadhuta's Sermon on his Gurus | 1248 |
Dattatreya's Sermon on his Gurus (Continued) | 1255 |
Dattatreya's Sermon on His Gurus (Continued) | 1260 |
The Limitations of Vedic Ritualism | 1265 |
Of Freedom and Bondage | 1270 |
Satsangha: the Association with Holy Men | 1276 |
The Song of the Hamsa | 1280 |
Bhakti as the Supreme Way | 1285 |
Siddhis: Occult Powers | 1290 |
Manifestations of Glory | 1295 |
Varnasrama: Vanaprastha and Sannyasa | 1307 |
The Spiritual Goal, Exhaustively | 1314 |
Bhakti, Gyana, and Karma Yoga | 1321 |
The Realm of Paapa and Punya | 1326 |
The Atman | 1333 |
The Song of the Mendicant | 1341 |
Creation and Dissolution | 1348 |
Freedom from the Gunas | 1352 |
On Avoiding Evil Company | 1356 |
Kriya Yoga, the Rites Company | 1360 |
Gyana Yoga, the Way of Knowledge | 1366 |
Krishna's Last Teaching to Uddhava | 1372 |
The End of the Yadavas | 1378 |
After Krishna Leaves the World | 1383 |
SKANDHA 12 | 1387 |
Royal Dynasties and their Degeneration | 1389 |
The Advance of the Kali Yuga | 1393 |
Overcoming the Evils of the Kali Yuga | 1398 |
The Four Pralayas | 1404 |
Sri Suka's Final Words | 1409 |
The Emancipation of Parikshit | 1411 |
The Puranas | 1419 |
The Greatness of Markandeya | 1422 |
Markandeya's Vision | 1428 |
Markandeya and Siva | 1432 |
Viswarupa | 1436 |
The Skandhas of the Bhagavata Purana | 1441 |
Final Salutations | 1447 |
Even after he has composed the awesome Mahabharata, the Maharishi Vyasa finds no peace. Narada Muni says to him, 'Ordinary men will be delighted by your work, but what about the sages of heaven and earth? Can swans that swim upon the Manasa Sarovara be delighted by the lakes of Bharatavarsha? You have described the human life, its strife and its ends, but you have not yet described the Lord himself. You must turn your great gift to that task; only then will you find peace.'
Veda Vyasa composes the Bhagavata Purana, in eighteen thousand slokas and twelve kandas. He teaches it to his illumined son Suka, who narrates the 'Secret Purana' (which even the Devas do not possess, which Ananta Sesha recites from his thousand mouths) to Yudhishtira's heir, King Parikshit, on the banks of the Ganga.
No other Indian scripture claims that it can bestow Moksha merely by being heard; but the Bhagavata Purana is a living embodiment of the Lord Narayana.
Just before Krishna, the Avatara, leaves the world, Uddhava says to him, 'The kali yuga has begun and evil will rise up and seize the earth. Who will be our light in the gathering night? Leave us a tangible form, Lord, in which we can find you, touch you, and be near you.
Krishna enters the Bhagavata Purana with all of his being: to read this amrita Purana is to be with Krishna. It consumes the sins of a million lives, it bestows untold fortune, and it is said to be the rarest treasure on earth.
This book is a full literary rendering of the Bhagavata Purana, bringing all the wonder, wisdom and grace of the Book of God to the modern reader.
Ramesh Menon was born in 1951 in New Delhi. He has retold the Siva Purana and the Devi Bhagavati, written modern renderings of the Mahabharata and Ramayana, and juxtaposed the holy Bhagavad Gita and Krishna's life from the Bhagavata Purana in his book Krishna: Life and Song of the Blue God.
Acknowledgements | xvii |
SKANDHA 1 | 1 |
In the Naimisa Vana | 3 |
Narada and Bhakti | 5 |
The Secret Purana | 11 |
Atmaveda, the Brahmana | 17 |
The Two Brothers | 22 |
SKANDHA 2 | 31 |
Vyasa and Narada | 33 |
Narada's past life | 36 |
The Story of Parikshit | 40 |
A Sudra, a Bull and a Cow | 41 |
The Curse | 44 |
On the Banks of the Ganga | 47 |
Virata Purusha | 50 |
The Way of Dhyana | 52 |
Narada Questions Brahma | 56 |
Creation | 59 |
The Avataras of the Lord | 63 |
Whom the Lord Blesses | 67 |
Parikshit's Questions | 70 |
Suka Replies | 72 |
SKANDHA 3 | 75 |
Krishna, Uddhava and Vidura | 77 |
The Beginning of Creation | 79 |
Adi Varaha | 83 |
Daksha's Daughter, Diti | 85 |
The Arrogant Dwarapalakas | 88 |
Kardama's Penance | 97 |
Devahuti | 102 |
The Perfect Wife | 105 |
Kapila Vasudeva | 110 |
Devahuti and her Son | 113 |
Samkhya: the Teachings of Kapila | 117 |
The Ashtanga Yoga, the Eight-Fold Path | 125 |
Bhakti Yoga, and the Power of Time | 129 |
Samsara and the Narakas | 133 |
The Torments of the Jiva, the Rajasi Gati | 136 |
Bhaktiyoga, the High Road | 139 |
The Enlightenment of Devahuti | 142 |
SKANDHA 4 | 147 |
Svayambhuva Manu's Daughters | 149 |
Daksha and Siva | 155 |
On Kailasa | 159 |
The Razing of Daksha's Yagna | 166 |
The Mercy of Siva | 169 |
The Tale of Dhruva | 177 |
Dhruva invades Alaka | 188 |
The Descendants of Dhruva | 195 |
Vena and the Birth of Prithu | 200 |
Prithu's Anger at the Earth | 208 |
Prithu's Anger at the Earth | 213 |
The Sons of Prithu | 227 |
The Prachetases | 246 |
Nabhi and the Birth of Rishabha | 258 |
Bharata, the Great | 267 |
Jada Bharata | 271 |
The Palanquin Bearer | 276 |
Bharata's Dynasty | 284 |
The Geography of Legend | 287 |
The Six Other Dwipas | 297 |
The Sun | 303 |
The Moon and the Planets | 305 |
Vishnupada: Dhruva and the Sishumara Chakra | 307 |
The Narakas | 314 |
SKANDHA 6 | 319 |
The Story of Ajamila | 321 |
The Descendants of Daksha | 330 |
Brihaspati Forsakes the Devas | 339 |
Vritrasura | 346 |
Indra | 355 |
The Curse of Parvati | 367 |
The Birth of the Maruts | 370 |
SKANDHA 7 | 379 |
The Lord is not Partial | 381 |
Diti Consoled | 385 |
Hiranyakashyapu's and Tapasya | 391 |
Hiranyakashyapu and Prahlada | 395 |
Prahlada's Sermon | 405 |
Knowing the Self | 409 |
The Death of Hiranyakashyapu | 415 |
The Hymn of Prahlada | 422 |
The Story of Prahlada | 431 |
The Varnas of Men and their Dharma | 438 |
The Dharma of Brahmacharins and Vanaprasthas | 443 |
The Sannyasi's Way | 447 |
The Way of the Grihasta | 453 |
Moksha, the Final Ideal | 458 |
SKANDHA 8 | 467 |
The First Four Manvantaras | 469 |
The Lord of Elephants in Danger | 473 |
The Hymn of Gajendra | 477 |
The Lineage of Gajendra | 481 |
Before the Churning of the Kshirasagara | 485 |
The Later Hymn of Brahma | 492 |
Kaalakuta | 497 |
Lakshmi, Amrita and Mohini | 504 |
The Drinking of the Amrita | 511 |
Devasura Yuddha | 515 |
Victory | 521 |
Mohini | 526 |
The Last Seven Manvantaras | 532 |
The Manvantara | 536 |
The Ascent of Mahabali | 538 |
Kashyapa teaches Aditi the Payovrata | 544 |
Aditi's Vision | 551 |
Vamana Comes to Mahabali's Yagna | 555 |
What the Vamana Wanted | 559 |
The Vamana Reveals Himself | 564 |
Bali Bound | 569 |
Bali Saved | 572 |
Bali Goes to Sutala | 576 |
The Matsya Avatara | 580 |
SKANDHA 9 | 587 |
The Tale of Sudyumna | 589 |
Manu's Other Sons and their Descendants | 594 |
The Line of Saryaati | 598 |
The Tale of Ambareesha | 604 |
Durvasa and Ambareesha | 612 |
The Line of Ambareesha | 616 |
The Line of Mandhata | 623 |
The Legend of Sagara | 627 |
Amshuman to Khatvaanga | 631 |
Rama Avatara | 638 |
Uttara Ramayana | 648 |
Kusa and his Descendants | 654 |
The Lineage of Nimi | 656 |
Pururavas of the House of the Moon | 659 |
The Legend of Parasurama | 565 |
The Bloodletting | 670 |
Pururavas' Other Descendants | 674 |
Yayati and Devayani | 676 |
Yayati's Relinquishment | 681 |
Dushyanta and Bharata | 684 |
Ranti Deva, the Kind One | 689 |
Bheeshma, Kuru, the Pandavas and Others | 693 |
The Sons of Yayati and their Sons | 699 |
The Lineage of Krishna | 704 |
SKANDHA 10 | 711 |
Krishna | 713 |
Before the Lord's Birth | 720 |
The Birth of Krishna | 726 |
The Devi | 732 |
In Gokula | 737 |
Putana Moksha | 740 |
Shakatasura and Trinavarta | 745 |
Krishna's Boyhood | 750 |
Damodara | 756 |
The Salvation of Kubera's Sons | 760 |
Leaving Gokula: the slaying of Vatsa and Baka | 766 |
The Liberation of Aghasura | 773 |
Brahma Tests Krishna | 779 |
Brahma's Stotra | 786 |
Dhenuka Moksha | 795 |
The Chastening of Kaliya | 801 |
More about Kaliya | 809 |
Pralamba | 812 |
Another Fire in the Forest | 816 |
The Seasons | 818 |
The Songs of the Gopis | 824 |
The Gopis' Clothes | 828 |
Moksha for the Brahmana Wives | 833 |
The Indra Yagna | 840 |
A Mountain Lifted | 844 |
They Declare he is God | 847 |
Krishna Govinda | 850 |
The Vision of Brahman and Vaikuntha | 854 |
Rasalila: with Gopis | 856 |
The Gopis Separated from Krishna | 863 |
The Song of the Gopis | 868 |
Krishna Reappears | 872 |
Raasa Krida: the Dance of Love | 876 |
The Salvation of Sudarshana and Sankhachuda | 882 |
Yugala Gitam | 886 |
Kamsa's Resolve | 889 |
The Slaying of Kesin and Vyomasura | 896 |
Akrura comes to Gokula | 900 |
Departure for Mathura | 906 |
Akrura Hymns Krishna | 913 |
In Mathura | 918 |
Before the Wrestling | 924 |
Kuvalayapida | 929 |
The Depth of Kamsa | 934 |
After Kamsa's Death | 940 |
Uddhava goes to Vraja | 946 |
Uddhava and the Gopis | 952 |
Trivakra and Akrura | 962 |
Akrura's Mission | 966 |
Jarasandha | 970 |
Muchukunda finds Grace | 977 |
Jarasandha Again, and the Message from Rukmini | 983 |
The Abduction of Rukmini | 988 |
Krishna Marries Rukmini | 994 |
The Birth of Pradyumna | 1000 |
The Syamantaka | 1004 |
The Later Story of the Syamantaka | 1008 |
The Wives of Krishna | 1012 |
The Slaying of Naraka | 1019 |
The Killing of Rukmi | 1032 |
Aniruddha and Usha | 1037 |
The rescue of Aniruddha | 1041 |
The Tale of Nriga | 1047 |
Balarama and Yamuna | 1052 |
Paundraka | 1056 |
Dwividha | 1061 |
Samba and the Kurus | 1064 |
Krishna, the Grihasta | 1070 |
Two Messengers in Dwaraka | 1076 |
To Indraprastha | 1082 |
Jarasandha | 1089 |
The Liberated Kings | 1095 |
Sishupala of Chedi | 1099 |
The Humiliation of Duryodhana | 1105 |
Salva | 1111 |
Salva Dies | 1115 |
Dantavakra Moksha | 1120 |
The killing of Balvala and Balarama's Tirtha Yatra | 1125 |
The Tale of Sridama | 1129 |
Grace | 1135 |
Festival at Samantapanchaka | 1141 |
Krishna's Wives Speak of Him | 1148 |
Vasudeva's Yagna at Samantapanchaka | 1154 |
Krishna and his Parents | 1162 |
The Marriage of Subhadra and the Tale of Srutadeva | 1170 |
He Vedas | 1178 |
The Tale of Vrikasura and Rudra | 1194 |
The Brahmana's Children | 1201 |
Krishna, the Perfect | 1201 |
SKANDHA 11 | 1209 |
A Final Task | 1211 |
The Sermon of the Navayogis | 1215 |
The Sermon of the Navayogis (Continued) | 1222 |
The Sermon of the Navayogis (Continued) | 1230 |
The Sermon of the Navayogis (Continued) | 1235 |
Krishna Near the End of His Avatara | 1242 |
Uddhava Gita: The Avadhuta's Sermon on his Gurus | 1248 |
Dattatreya's Sermon on his Gurus (Continued) | 1255 |
Dattatreya's Sermon on His Gurus (Continued) | 1260 |
The Limitations of Vedic Ritualism | 1265 |
Of Freedom and Bondage | 1270 |
Satsangha: the Association with Holy Men | 1276 |
The Song of the Hamsa | 1280 |
Bhakti as the Supreme Way | 1285 |
Siddhis: Occult Powers | 1290 |
Manifestations of Glory | 1295 |
Varnasrama: Vanaprastha and Sannyasa | 1307 |
The Spiritual Goal, Exhaustively | 1314 |
Bhakti, Gyana, and Karma Yoga | 1321 |
The Realm of Paapa and Punya | 1326 |
The Atman | 1333 |
The Song of the Mendicant | 1341 |
Creation and Dissolution | 1348 |
Freedom from the Gunas | 1352 |
On Avoiding Evil Company | 1356 |
Kriya Yoga, the Rites Company | 1360 |
Gyana Yoga, the Way of Knowledge | 1366 |
Krishna's Last Teaching to Uddhava | 1372 |
The End of the Yadavas | 1378 |
After Krishna Leaves the World | 1383 |
SKANDHA 12 | 1387 |
Royal Dynasties and their Degeneration | 1389 |
The Advance of the Kali Yuga | 1393 |
Overcoming the Evils of the Kali Yuga | 1398 |
The Four Pralayas | 1404 |
Sri Suka's Final Words | 1409 |
The Emancipation of Parikshit | 1411 |
The Puranas | 1419 |
The Greatness of Markandeya | 1422 |
Markandeya's Vision | 1428 |
Markandeya and Siva | 1432 |
Viswarupa | 1436 |
The Skandhas of the Bhagavata Purana | 1441 |
Final Salutations | 1447 |