Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 2.4.24
Īśānukathā· The Lord and His devoteesRecover Our Eternal Relationship Through Vedic Knowledge
“I offer my respectful obeisances unto Śrīla Vyāsadeva, the incarnation of Vāsudeva who compiled the Vedic scriptures. The pure devotees drink up the nectarean transcendental knowledge dropping from the lotuslike mouth of the Lord.”
What the purport teaches
- Respectful obeisances are offered to Śrīla Vyāsadeva, the incarnation of Vāsudeva who compiled the Vedic scriptures. These scriptures revive the conditioned souls’ lost memory of their eternal relationship with the Lord.
- Lord Kṛṣṇa’s music, dance and decorations are transcendental, not mundane. Understanding their spiritual nature requires gradual development of transcendental knowledge.
- One should receive this nectarean knowledge from Vyāsadeva or Śukadeva. Pure devotees relish both profound philosophical teachings and the Lord’s rāsa dance, without making a mundane distinction between them.
Try this today
Offer respectful obeisances to Śrīla Vyāsadeva, then reread one sentence of this purport with your eternal relationship with the Lord in mind.
Ask yourself
Am I studying to revive my relationship with the Lord, rather than merely to collect information?
Carry the question through the day, then answer it in your own words before sleep.
The study points, practice and question are short summaries drawn from Śrīla Prabhupāda's translation and purport. Read the full purport to go deeper.