Bhaagavatha Saaradaa — 6

SriSaaradaa Dayaa Deeptih:—

Bhaagavatam~6.

Bhaagavata Maamaatmyam.

The second verse in the B.M., is a prayer to Sri Suka Goswamy. This is taken directly from the main text of the Bhaagavatam. So we chant the verse as a prayer only, and we can have a detailed exposition on this verse when we come across this in the text. The verse is as under:-

“Yam pravrajanta manupeta mapeta krityam
Dvaipaayano viraha kaatara aajuhaava |
Putreti tanmayatayaa taravo>bhineduh
Tam sarva bhoota hridayam muni maanato>smi” ||

Immediately after the prayer of the Supreme Lord, Sri Krishna, the very next prayer is to Sri Suka Deva Goswamy. No prayer is offered to Sri Saraswatidevi, or Vishvaksena (the Vaishnavite version of Lord Ganesa), or Vedavyaasa, the author of the Bhaagavata, or at least to the Holy Text of the Bhaagavata Mahaa Puraanam itself. Why is this? Doesn’t it look like an instance of impropriety, either unwittingly or wantonly? No, not at all so. Then, how.

Here, the Spiritual Sublimity, the sacred personality and the transcendental excellence of Sri Suka Brahma are formidably so all-inclusive that what all we mentioned above are already there and a lot more left untouched are also included in Sri Suka Deva maharaj. The main theme of this verse is that Sri Suka bhagavaan is, by birth, thoroughly well-established in the Supreme Sat-Chit-Aananada Brahman. So, the Brahman is all-inclusive and all-encompassing Reality who/which is beyond the bounds of spacio-temporal dimensions.

Consequently, the singular prayer to Sri Sukadeva is a prayer to the Supreme Truth of Brahman itself and as such it includes all prayers to all the Gods and Goddesses, Sages and Saints and the Vedas and the Puraanas.

Swasti ||