Thursday, February 3, 2011

SRI BRHAD BHAGAVATAMRTA **verse 2**

verse 2
srimad-bhagavatambhodhi-piyusam idan apiban
na trpyami muni-srestha tvan-mukhambhja-vasitam

O topmost sage, despite heartily drinking the nectar of this great ocean of Srimad-Bhagavatam, which is scented with the fragrance of your lotus mouth, I am still not satiated.

...so this is King Janamejaya (the son of Parisit Maharaja), speaking to his guru, Jaimini (a prominent disciple of Vyasadeva).  and he's saying that even though he's heard now so much nectar from the ocean of Srimad Bhagavatm from the first canto of Bhagavatamrta and yet he still wants to hear more.

If you have read the first canto of Bhagavatamrta, http://www.purebhakti.com/resources/ebooks-a-magazines-mainmenu-63/cat_view/53-bhakti-books-download/31-english.html, you will remember that Sri Narada Muni is going from personality to personality asking who is the greatest recipient of Lord Krsna's mercy.  It is a delightful pastime where each personality like Hanuman is aghast thinking that anyone would think he is the greatest recipient of Krsna's mercy and telling Narada, 

"O best of sages why do you make this poor person, suffering due to separation from the lotus feet of Sri Raghunatha, cry by reminding me of his cruelty to me?  If I am really his servant, then why did he abandon me when he took his beloved devotees such as Sugurva and the residents of Ayodhya with him!  When soft hearted mahatmas like you see that I had the good fortune to serve Sri Raghunatha directly, you consider that he was very merciful to me, but it is not so.  

Now he has assumed an incarnation and descended in Mathura, exhibiting the pinnacle of his opulence.  The mercy that he gives the Pandavas is like the great Mt. Sumeru, and in caparison the mercy that he gave me is like a pebble.  By sending them so many troubles  since their childhood, Sri Krsna has broadcast to the world their patience, adherence to religious principles fame, transcendental knowledge, pure devotion and divine love." (Sri Hanuman)

so in this way these great devotees are sending Narada to higher and higher personalities culminating of course in the gopis.

that is the first canto. king Janmejaya is not saying that the first canto is insufficient in any way rather that he is anxious to hear more and more. this is the sign of a devotee. he can never hear enough about his sweet Lord!













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