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Srimad Bhagavatam

Srimad Bhagavatam. Canto 1 Chapter 1 Text 4-5 Importance of Holy place Learning absolute truth from a bonafide Guru. Text 4. naimiñe 'nimiña-kñetre åñayaù çaunakädayaù satraà svargäya lokäya sahasra-samam äsata

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Srimad Bhagavatam

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  1. Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 1 Chapter 1 Text 4-5 Importance of Holy place Learning absolute truth from a bonafide Guru

  2. Text 4 naimiñe 'nimiña-kñetre åñayaù çaunakädayaù satraà svargäya lokäya sahasra-samam äsata Once, in a holy place in the forest of Naimiñäraëya, great sages headed by the sage Çaunaka assembled to perform a great thousand-year sacrifice for the satisfaction of the Lord and His devotees.

  3. Importance of Holy place • In the Väyavéya Tantra, it is said that Brahmä, the engineer of this particular universe, contemplated a great wheel which could enclose the universe. The hub of this great circle was fixed at a particular place known as Naimiñäraëya. • Similarly, there is another reference to the forest of Naimiñäraëya in the Varäha Puräëa, where it is stated that by performance of sacrifice at this place, the strength of demoniac people is curtailed. • Thus brähmaëas prefer Naimiñäraëya for such sacrificial performances.

  4. Text 5 ta ekadä tu munayaù prätar huta-hutägnayaù sat-kåtaà sütam äsénaà papracchur idam ädarät One day, after finishing their morning duties by burning a sacrificial fire and offering a seat of esteem to Çréla Süta Gosvämé, the great sages made inquiries, with great respect, about the following matters.

  5. Learning Absolute Truth from bonafide Guru • Morning is the best time to hold spiritual services. • Offering respects to bonafide Guru. • Learning Absolute Truth in chain of Disciplic succession. • The Bonafide Gurus do not deliver lectures on the Bhägavatam capriciously. Rather, they execute their services most carefully, following their predecessors who delivered the spiritual message unbroken to them. • One must learn the transcendental subject by submissive aural reception from the right sources.

  6. Professional recitation of Bhagavatam • A professional man who makes a business out of reciting the Bhägavatam illegally is certainly not a representative of Çukadeva Gosvämé. Such a man's business is only to earn his livelihood. • Such men usually go to the most confidential part of the literature without undergoing the gradual process of understanding this grave subject. • Some of them take this to be immoral, while others try to cover it up by their own stupid interpretations. • The serious student of the rasa should receive the message of Bhägavatam in the chain of disciplic succession from Çréla Çukadeva Gosvämé.

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