Narada Muni katha – topics covered

Appearence of Sri Narada

  • Paramahamsa Shukadeva Gosvami
  • Ideal king, Maharaja Parikshit
  • Birthdate of Vyasadeva
  • Vyasadeva activities in prepering transcendental works
  • Vedas Entrusted to different scholars
  • Vedas made easy for the less intelligent class
  • Mercy of Vyasadeva
  • Unworthy sons of the higher castes
  • Dissatisfaction of Vyasadeva and its cause

Naradas instructions on Srimad Bhagvatam for Vyasadeva

  • The mind and the body
  • Identification of self with the body or mind is cause of despondency
  • The cause explaned
  • Flowery languge without divinity is condemned
  • Need of preaching a Srimad Bhagavatam
  • Nothing is good withhout God
  • Be fixed upon the complete work
  • Human frailties
  • A boon to the layman
  • The prime duty
  • The permanent gain
  • Personal and impersonal features of the Lord
  • Purpose of all cultural assets
  • The Bhaktivedantas people
  • Principles of saintly association
  • Miraculous act of hearing Bhagavatam
  • Effects of spiritual association
  • Duties ofa neophyte
  • Real spiritual master
  • Meaning of surender
  • The cause of miseries
  • Omport of bhakti yoga
  • Cent-percent engagment
  • Sound as form
  • Concluding instruction of Narada

Coversation between Narada and Vyasa

  • Further inquiry by vyasadeva
  • History of Naradas previous life
  • His touring
  • His momentous hankering for the Lord
  • Seeing the Lord
  • Message of Godhead
  • Naradas eternal engagment
  • His transcendental body
  • His reappearance
  • His freedom of movement in all planets
  • The lord his constant companion
  • Comparative importance of bhaki – yoga and mystic powers

Lessions to be learned:

  • The speaker and the audience shoul be bonafide

  • Krsna katha is the medicine

  • Srimad-Bhagavatam has nothing to do with anything mundane

  • Learned sage looks equally at everyone

  • Sukadeva Gosvami was transcendental to sex relations

  • Householder has to distinguish between a male and female

  • We have to perform sacrifice

  • A sage is recognized by hearing

  • We need to aproach asadhu to hear from him

  • No topic other than the glorification of Lord Krishna should be discussed

  • We have to be busy in the welfare work for the public

  • All Vedas are emanations from the breathing of the Supreme Being

  • Realization is more important than parrotlike chanting

  • “Krishna consciousness” means nothing less than absorption in Krishna.

  • Forces of time are so powerful tha they reduced everything in Kali yuga

  • Liberated souls can see through the eyes of scriptures

  • Sages – real friends of the people

  • Original source of knowledge are Vedas

  • Vedas are understood by persons with exceptional qualities of goodness

  • Bhagavad-gita was spoken to a family man

  • We also have at end of every day to analize our defects and how we can imporve our live

  • We should not have identified the self with the body or the mind – it is couse of suffering

  • Approach a personality like Narada to solve the root cause of all despondencies

  • Devotee – emblem of all knowledge

  • The Lord has expanded Himself as living beings

  • Necessity of explaining Vedanta-sutra in the form of Srimad-Bhagavatam

  • After liberation one is engaged in pure devotional service

  • Vasudeva is goal of human endeavor

  • Meaning of scriptures is revealed by repetition

  • People are like crows or swans

  • Great thinkers has ability to pick up the best even from the worst

  • Polluted atmosphere of the world has to be changed

  • There is no cause of quarrel between the two countries

  • Great need for disseminating the message of Srimad-Bhagavatam

  • People are tools in the hands of the modern politicians and leaders

  • Srimad-Bhagavatam is food for hankering of people

  • Let there be systematic propaganda for popularizing reading of Srimad-Bhagavatam

  • Devotee always glorify the Lord

  • If there is no bhakti the work is useless

  • Karma not offered to Lord is useless

  • Great sages can supply transcendental novel informations every day

  • Srimad-Bhagavatam is meant for all the living beings all over the universe for total liberation

  • Liberated person possesses perfect senses

  • We have to remember the various pastimes of the Lord

  • People always disturbed about finding the real path of self-realization

  • Srila Naradadeva is trying to emphasize describing everything in relation with the Supreme Lord

  • There is nothing existent except the Lord

  • The human form of life is a chance to get out of this imprisoned life

  • Mahabharata culminates in the ultimate instructions of the Bhagavad-gita

  • The expert physician does not make any compromise

  • People falls down from the path of service by undesirable association

  • One may fall down, but he will never forget the lotus feet of the Lord

  • Bhakti is independently powerful

  • Impressions created by bhakti are indestructible and remain in subtle form

  • Distress is attained without endeavor

  • Devotee is reformed by chastisement directed by the Lord

  • Fallen devotees are given a chance to take birth in a family of highly qualified brahmanas or in a rich mercantile family

  • There is no misfortune for the devotee

  • This universe is like the Lord

  • We must accept the supremacy of the Lord

  • One must have a spiritual master

  • Advancement of knowledge is applied in the service

  • Dharmas will be produced by bhakti

  • Everything is easily achieved by devotee through bhakti

  • The service to the Lord begins with the service of the Lord’s bona fide servants

  • We should beget children son they can achive complete perfection of life

  • Pure devotee is cleared from all kinds of sins

  • We can get infection of the qualities of the pure devotee by eating his remnants

  • Lord perform transcendental pastimes as a human being so we will be attracted towards Him

  • By hearing one contacts directly the Personality of Godhead

  • We should realize our ignorance

  • Instruction of the Lord can be understood by the devotees only

  • We should understand how the different energies of the Lord are working

  • One must dedicate everything to the service of the Lord

  • All our activities have to be spiritualized

  • We should work only for Krsna

  • We should seek the association of pure devotees

  • The basic principle is to satisfy the Lord

  • Preacher is dear to the Lord

  • Lord is worshiped by sound representation

  • By chanting the mantra, the deity makes his appearance

  • Disciple should understand heart of his guru

  • Spiritual consciousness is not annihilated

  • Important symptom visible after initiation – change in his life

  • See in every step a benedictory direction of the Lord

  • We should find impetus in spiritual life

  • We should experience all varieties of God’s creation

  • Sit down at some holy place and chant

  • Meet the needs of body by the gifts of nature

  • Use proper use of one’s trained intelligence for meditating

  • The Lord is pleased to be present out of His causeless mercy

  • Lord is bound up by the tie of unalloyed devotion

  • Worship the Deity of the Lord (arcana)

  • Lord is increasing hankerings of devotee for the loving transcendental service

  • Seeing the Lord means being engaged in His service

  • Neophyte devotee gets intelligence how to spiritualy advance

  • Lord seen or heard is same

  • We should have one single desire: to go back to Godhead

  • Devotee has no hankerings for petty material things

  • Devotee simultaneously changes his material body and develops a spiritual body

  • We should properly use the sound meters for singing for Krishna

  • Lord is attracted by the pure devotee’s chanting of His glories

  • Maya -cannot give satisfaction to people

  • We can have the same experience as great sages

  • We have opportunity in this life to search out for the Lord

  • Everyone is anxious for full freedom

  • Narada Muni has unlimitedness of freedom

 

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