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The Book | The writer
Welcome at the site of the S'rîmad Bhâgavatam (or the bhâgavata purâna). Here you will find the complete and up-to-date version maintained in Sanskrit, English and Dutch of this most important sacred book of stories of India. India knows many purânas or storybooks, but this collection of stories is generally accepted as being the most complete and important. The book, arranged in twelve so-called cantos, comprises 335 chapters with about 18000 verses. Truly a Bible thus. It is that collection of stories which stresses the prime importance of the maintaining aspect of God as impersonated by the transcendental form of Lord Vishnu.
| The writer of this book is named Krishna Dvaipâyana Vyâsadeva, also called Bâdarâyana. He is the Lord, the bhagavân, amongst the philosophers, who in India assembled all the holy texts. He arranged the Vedas, the basic books (s'ruti) with the mantras for the rituals, the wisdom and the hymns and wrote the Mahâbhârata, the greatest epic poem in the world describing the history (itihâsa) of the great fall that the vedic culture once made. The Bhagavad Gîtâ, is a part of it. Vyâsa also wrote the rest of the eighteen great Bibles (the purânas) of India as well as the Brahma-sûtra, his masterpiece on the Absolute Truth.
The person | The culture
The representative of Vishnu on earth is named the Fortunate One in this book. We know Him specifically by the names of Lord Râma and Lord Krishna. The Fortunate One is thus the Lord who is known in different forms or incarnations, but also the devotees are part of His reality and are also called bhâgavata when they are pure. Thus there is the Lord in His many appearances, the devotee with as many faces and the book. They are all called Fortunate. Fortunate means to be of the opulence, or to carry, or live by, the fullness of God of the riches, beauty, fame, power, knowledge and detachment. | Vyâsa was a grandfather of the Kuru-dynasty. He lived a very long time. Long enough to write the story of the Fortunate One and all the other books. He also had a son. He carried the name S'ukadeva. He handed the message of this Bible down to another member of the family, Emperor Parîkchit, who had difficulty respecting the classical wisdom. This emperor is the model for us normal people who seek their stability in the wisdom. From S'uka was this knowledge in disciplic succession conveyed (paramparâ) by the teachers of instruction (the âcâryas), who were exemplary in devotional service (the bhakti). The book and the culture about it was brought to the West by the vaishnava, the vishnu-monk, Swami A. C. Bhaktivedanta Prabhupâda. Together with his pupils (known as the Hare Krishnas of ISKCON) he realized a verse by verse commented series of books covering the entire Bhâgavatam. This site offers not all these commentaries (see for that purpose vedabase.net) but does offer the basic translation of the verses as well as a concatenated version, translated as-it-is which is regularly updated, being maintained by Anand Aadhar Prabhu (René P. B. A. Meijer), a dutch psychologist converted to the philosophy of yoga who received instruction in the temples of ISKCON. His predecessor in this duty was S'rî Hayes'var das (Hendrik van Teylingen) who covered most of the translations into Dutch. The present responsibility for the culture of vaishnavism in Holland lies with the ISKCON vaishnava-monk Kadamba Kânana Swami.

The Bhâgavatam centers around the love of Lord Krishna

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