Sri Subodhini: Commentary on Srimad Bhagavata Purana: Text and English Translation Canto III-Chapters 20 to 26 (Volume 24)

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This volume presents, for the first time in English language, the translation, based on devotion to our Lord Shri Krishna (Bhakti), bringing out, from the original Sanskrit text, the "Bhavartha" (meaning of the innerspirit and underlying loving sentiments, with which, this treatise has been written), of the monumental commentary, Sri Subodhini, on the Maha Bhagavata Purana, by Mahaprabhu Sri Vallabhacharya (c 1479 – c 1531). Shri Vallabhacharya’s Sri Subodhini is available only for the 1, 2, 3; 10 and for 4 chapters and 2 verses of chapter 5 of 11 canto. Sri Subodhini is considered, as the most detailed commentary, among all the available commentaries of Sri Bhagavatam. In this volume, 7 chapters of the canto III, (chapters 20 to 26) are dealt, with the original verse of Sri Bhagavatam, it’s English meaning, the text of Sri Subodhini in Sanskrit and it’s English meaning. Wherever necessary, the commentaries/explanations given by Shri Gosainji (Shri Vittalnatha), Shri Vallabhji, Shri Laloo Bhatji and Shri Purushotamji, have also have been added. The 7 chapters, respectively, deal with (1) Description of the many types of "creation", done by Lord Brahma (2) The Penance of sage Kardma and the "Boon" conferred by our Lord (3) The return of king Manu, to his capital, after offering his daughter Devahooti in marriage to sage Kardama (4) The conjugal happiness of sage Kardama and Devahooti (5) The "Incarnation" of Lord Kapiladeva and the return of sage Kardama to the forest (6) The Yoga of "Bhakthi" (Devotion to our Lord) as enunciated by our Lord Kapiladeva to mother Devahooti and (7) the instructions, on the principles of "Saankhya Sastra," by Lord Kapiladeva".

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Mahaprabhu Shri Vallabhacharya

Born in a village, founded by Adi Shankracharya, as the son of very devout parents, the late T.K. Viswanatha Iter and Ranganayaki Ammal, Ramanan was initiated into the study of the Vedas, the Upanishads, Puranas, the Gita, Sanskrit treatises and the Sacred Chantings from the age of 5. His initiation into the path of Bhakti was blessed by his Acharya and Guru, Shri Ubhaya Vedanta Srirangam Sampath Kumara Swami, who is 77 now and is a symbol of our Lord's love and compassion. He is honoured and loved by everyone, as a noble Saint of Shri Ramanuja Sampradaya. Ramanan sys "If ever there is a faint and feeble remembrance of our Lord, in my mind, it is entirely due to the Grace of my Guru and his prayers to our Lord Shri Laxmi Narayana". Arising out of a chance meeting with one off the greatest saints of our times, Shri Shyam Manohar Goswamijee, a direct descendant of Shri Mahaprabhu Vallabhacharya, becoming the recepient of His love, Grace and Compassion, Ramanan was inspired to attempt writing this translation into English of the monumental commentary of Shri Subodhini, by Mahaprabhu Shri Vallabhacharya, which in the words of Srimad Andavan of Srirangam, a noble and most loving Saint of the Ramanuja Sampradaya "cannot be fully and truly translated, into any other language, as Shri Vallabhacharya had the highest love for Lord Krishna". Hence, at best, this translation, in the words of Ramanan is a humble attempt to becoming deserving to get the Grace off our Lord Shri Krishna, through the Blessings and Grace of my Gurudeva Shri Ubhaya Vedanta Srirangam Sampath Kumara Swamin, Shri Shyam Manohara Goswamijee, Srimad Andavan of Srirangam and all Devotees and Bhaktas of our Lord.