Prabhupada on importance of SB and reading SB
March 28, 2012 in Articles, Damaghosa Dasa
Hare Krsna to all
Pranams
All glories to Srila Prabhupada
For those of you who receive these nectar emails-they will be seen as poison if
one has little or no taste for hearing the words received from the Lord’s pure devotee.
But for one who has gotten a little mercy, these words from the lotus
mouth of a pure devotee are pure nectar for they relieve the burning of the heart.
See below what Prabhupada says about Srila Vyasadeva and how he got chastised by
his guru Narada Muni for writing so many “nonsense books”-called the Vedas !!
Hare Krsna
Damaghosa das
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720413SB.MEL Lectures
That is advised by Narada Muni to his disciple Vyasadeva: “What you are writing, all these nonsense books? You…” What is called? Jugupsitam. Jugupsitam. He instructed Vyasadeva that “Whatever literatures you have produced…” Means up to that time he produced Vedanta-sutra. He wrote up to Vedanta-sutra, which is considered to be the topmost philosophical thesis in the world, Vedanta-sutra, all over the world, the Vedanta philosophy. So he finished that Vedanta-sutra. Still, he was not happy. And his spiritual master Narada chastised him, “What nonsense books you have written?” First of all he was not happy, so Narada came, and he asked him that “Why you are not happy? You know everything, but why you are not happy?” So he submitted, “Yes, my master, I know everything, and I think I have done everything, writing all these books. But still, I am not happy. So why I am not happy, that you can tell because you are my master.” So, “Yes, I can tell you.” And then he said that “You have labored so much for writing all these nonsense books, but you have not said anything of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Therefore you are unhappy. Therefore I advise you that now you write one book which is simply the transaction of the Supreme Personality, nothing else, nothing of this material world, sacrificing, this religious, and this unreligious, ‘this is good, this is bad,’ nothing of the sort. Simply write about the pastimes of the Supreme Lord. Then you will be happy.” Then he wrote Srimad-Bhagavatam. And when he wrote, began writing Srimad-Bhagavatam, he writes in the beginning, dharmah projjhita-kaitavo ‘tra: “All these cheating type of religious system, I kick it out, this ism, that ism. I kick out all them.It is this book, especially meant for paramo nirmatsaranam satam, those who are simply paramahamsas. It is meant for them. It is not for the ordinary men. I have kicked out all the so-called religious system, dharma artha kama.” People are very much Nowadays they are not even for dharma or artha. They are simply kama, sense gratification. Sense gratification because every one of us, we come here for sense gratification.
