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Who is speaking?
Every chapter of the Bhāgavatam, coloured by how many narrators deep it goes. Choose one to see its frames and every verse where a new voice begins.
335 chapters
The depth map
SB 3.28 · 4 voices deep
Kapila’s Instructions on the Execution of Devotional Service
The frames this chapter sits inside, outermost first. Choose one to read its note and the verse where its voice begins.
Devahūti asks her son how to be free, and Kapila teaches devotional service and the soul's journey.
Where this voice begins
“The Personality of Godhead answered: The yoga system which relates to the Lord and the individual soul, which is meant for the ultimate benefit of the living entity, and which causes detachment from all happiness and distress in the material world, is the …”
In the translation
Voices in this chapter
Each verse whose translation opens by naming its speaker, in order. Repeated openings by the same speaker are grouped.
- 3.28.1The Personality of Godhead
The frames come from where the translation itself says who is speaking (“Śukadeva Gosvāmī said …”). Their exact start and end verses, the episode labels and the setting bands are study aids, not words of the scripture; Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on each verse is always the final word.