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SB (1962) Volume 1 Contents


Introduction

Conception of God and the Absolute Truth.
Source of material energy.
Preacher of Srimad Bhagwatam.
Science of Krishna and its need.
Sri Chaitanya Maha Prabhu.
His mission.
His birth.
His early childhood.
His student life.
His civil disobedience.
Reclaiming the sinners.
His Sannyas.
Khirchora Gopinath.
Meeting with Bhattacharya.
His discourse on the Vedanta.
His meeting with Ramananda Roy.
Importance of submissive hearing.
Instructive story of Junior Haridas.
Power of Samkirtan movement.
His talks with Mayavadi Sanyasi Prakasananda.
The Lord visits Mathura and Vrindaban.
He converts Pathans to Vaisnava cult.
Obstacles on the path of Devotion.
Eight modes of Prayer by a pure devotee.
Sanskrit Text of the First Chapter inserted.

First Chapter

Purpose of the Gayatree Mantra.
Parameswer the Supreme.
Three divisions of Vedic ways.
Exchange of Rasas between two equals.
Watering the root of tree.
Symptoms of men in the age of quarrel or Kali.
Scriptures summarised
Glories of the Name of the Lord.
Real remedy for peace in the world.
Incarnation of Godhead is distinguished.

Second Chapter

Divinity and Divine Service.
Obeisances unto spiritual master and the Lord.
Srimad Bhagwatam summarised.
Scope of sense-satisfaction.
Definition of the Absolute Truth.
Process of its realisation.
Duty of all classes of human being.
Service unto the devotees.
The Book and the Person Bhagwatam.
Seeing the Lord.
Forms of the Lord and the living beings.
Quality of worship and the demi-gods.
Lord Sri Krishna or Vasudeva is all in all.
He is all pervading.

Third Chapter

Description of Incarnations of Godhead.
Purusha incarnations the cause of matter and the material world.
From Him Brahma is manifested.
Description of the Universal Form.
Short description of various incarnations.
1st Kumaras Incarnation
2nd Sukara
3rd Narad
4th Nara Navayana
5th Kapila the author of Samkhya philosophy.
6th Daryatreya incarnation
7th Yajna
8th Rishava
9th Prithu
10th Matsya
11th Kurma
12th Dhanantari
13th Mohini
14th Narasingha
15th Vamana
16th Bhrigupati (Parsurama).
17th Vyasdeva
18th Rama
19th Valarama.
20th Krishna
21st Buddha Deva.
22nd Kalki.
Lord Krishna the Original Personality of Godhead.
His Virata Rupa, an imagination.
The Lord or the living being all are spirit.
Self-realisation means seeing the Lord.
He is unknowable by mental speculation.
Srimad Bhagwatam is the cream of histories.
The mode of its reception.
Srimad Bhagwatam is representation of Lord Krishna.
Srimad Bhagwatam and its incompatibilities.

Fourth Chapter

Appearance of Sri Narada.
Paramhansa Sukhdeva Goswami.
The ideal King Maharaj Parikshit.
Birth date of Vyasdeva.
His activities in preparing transcendental works.
His surveying of the general situation.
Different in-charges of the divisions of Veda.
Vedas made easy for the less intelligent class.
Mercy of Vyasdeva
Unworthy Sons of the Higher Castes
Dissatisfaction of Vyasdeva and its Cause

Fifth Chapter.

Sri Narada's Instructions on Srimad Bhagwatam for
Vyasdeva
The mind and the Body
Identification of Self with the Body or Mind is the
Cause of Despondency
The Cause Explained
Flowery Language without Divinity is Condemned
Need of Preaching Srimad Bhagwatam
Nothing is Good without God.
Be fixed up on the Complete Whole
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
Previous Life of Narada
The Bhaktivedantas
Principles of Saintly Association
Miraculous Act of Hearing Bhagwatam
Effects of Spiritual Association
Duties of a Neophyte
Real Spiritual Master
Meaning of Surrender
The Cause of Miseries
Import of Bhaktiyoga
Cent per cent engagement
Sound as Form
Concluding instruction of Narada

Sixth Chapter.

Further Enquiry by Vyasdeva
History of Narada's Previous Life
His Touring
His Momentous Hankering for the Lord
Seeing the Lord
Message of Godhead
Narada's Eternal Engagement
His transcendental Body
His Re-appearance
His Freedom of Movement in all Planets
The Lord, His Constant Companion
Comparative Importance of Bhaktiyoga and Mystic Powers

Seventh Chapter.

Vyasdeva's Meditation
His Clear Conception
Acts of Maya Illusory Energy
Effects of Bhaktiyoga
Effects of Hearing Srimad Bhagwatam

Appendices.

Glossary
Errata
Notice

THE MOTTO

It is admitted even in the higher circle that in fact, the whole root and background of Indian culture is wrapped in the Sanskrit language. And we know that the foreign invaders of India could break down some of the monumental architectural work in India but they were unable to break up the perfect ideals of human civilization so far kept hidden within the Sanskrit language of Vedic wisdom.

Srimad Bhagwatam is the mature ripen fruit of the tree of Vedic literature (pp. 66.). We have just begun to give it rendered into English with broader outlook and it is the duty of the leading Indians to spread up the culture all over the world at this momentous hour of need.