ज्या शब्दांवर कथा उभी आहे

The fourth and present age in the cycle of four: Satya, Treta, Dvapara and Kali.

यात येतो पुस्तक ० · पुस्तक १ · Why devotion tires: Bhakti’s sleeping sons and an age of distraction · Why does the Bhagavata need a preface? The Mahatmya, explained

Right order — what upholds a person, a community and the world. Book One opens on the question of where it lives now.

यात येतो पुस्तक १ · Satyaṃ paraṃ dhīmahi — the phrase that opens and closes the Bhagavata

The forest where the rishis gathered and Suta recited the Bhagavata. The press is named for it.

यात येतो पुस्तक १

Devotion — loving attention to the Divine. In the Mahatmya she is a young woman whose two sons have grown old.

यात येतो पुस्तक ० · Why devotion tires: Bhakti’s sleeping sons and an age of distraction · Who is Narada? The wanderer between the worlds

A text that tells the greatness of another text. The Bhagavata Mahatmya, from the Padma Purana, is Book Zero.

यात येतो पुस्तक ० · Why does the Bhagavata need a preface? The Mahatmya, explained

A sacrificial rite. At Naimisharanya the rishis were tending a long yajña when they asked Suta to speak.

यात येतो पुस्तक १

Detachment — freedom from craving for what passes. Bhakti’s other son.

यात येतो पुस्तक ० · Why devotion tires: Bhakti’s sleeping sons and an age of distraction

A seven-day hearing of the Bhagavata. The Mahatmya prescribes it, and the eight volumes follow it.

यात येतो पुस्तक ० · पुस्तक १ · Why does the Bhagavata need a preface? The Mahatmya, explained

One of the twelve divisions — often called cantos — of the Srimad Bhagavata.

यात येतो पुस्तक १

Knowledge — understanding of what is real. One of Bhakti’s two sons in the Mahatmya.

यात येतो पुस्तक ० · Why devotion tires: Bhakti’s sleeping sons and an age of distraction