( Vyasa's son, Bhagavatam preacher.)
( This blog is continuation of Bhagavatam skanda 1 part-1.)
Vyasa written BHAGAVATAM philosophically with the respect and heartful devotion towards lord vishnu. But he has doubt that which person can teach the bhagavatam's philosophy by not deviating the devotion towards vishnu. And he left the question to the lord and started penance and yagnas in his hermitage.
After a long time, vyasa once thought to have a child. Because after taking a birth in this world, a human should perform the 4 runas called Manushya, Deva, Rushi, Pitru runas. According to Hindu scriptures RUNAM means the duty of every person to perform in his birth. Vyasa completed the 3 runas except pitru runam because to do pitru runam we should have a own child. But Vyasa is a bachelor rushi. So to accomplish pitru runam he performed a difficult penance to please lord Shiva. After many years of penance lord shiva appeared and gave a boon to vyasa that in a short time he will have a son. Vyasa was satisfied by the boon and started his journey towards his hermitage. But in the journey vyasa got a doubt that he doesn't have a wife, then how he can have a son. And similarly he left the biggest doubt to lord.
Once vyasa performed a yagnam in his hermitage. At that time there appeared a apsarasa( dancer in heaven.) named Gruthachi. Vyasa got the sex feelings when he saw the Gruthachi and a sperm was expelled from his body into the sacred fire of yagna. But soon vyasa came into his senses and controlled his feelings and gave a high intensity anger sight towards Gruthachi. Then Gruthachi afraid of that anger sight and flew away from that place by becoming a shuka( parrot). But Vyasa didn't observed his sperm that fell in the yagna. And vyasa started the performance of yagna. After some time due to the blessings of lord shiva a son was born from that sacred yagna. Vyasa was taken that child and named him as shuka.
Shuka maharshi is like a yogi from his birth. That means he doesn't have any interests in external world, he thinks only about the eternal god. When he born, he firstly asked his father vyasa about how to get Moksham( salvation). But Vyasa replied that to get Moksham we need to grow, experience, think and live the life and at the end of the life we get Moksham. But shuka maharshi thinks of only the eternal god.
Once shuka is walking in the forest without any senses and dress on his body to find the god. Vyasa is calling and following the shuka in that dense forest but shuka is not on his senses and doesn't answering to any calling of vyasa. Shuka then reached a pond where apsaras are taking bath nude. Shuka saw the nude apsaras but he didn't tempted to them. Also apsaras are not worried about the arrival of SHUKA. After shuka went away, vyasa came and saw the nude apsaras. Immediately vyasa moved a side and closed his eyes and apsaras are worried and dressed themselves. Then vyasa got a doubt that why these apsaras are worried by looking at me but not worried by looking at young and handsome shuka muni? And vyasa asked the same question to the apsaras. Then apsaras replied that shuka was like a kid who always think of god god doesn't think of this external world and mainly he doesn't know the difference between man and woman but Vyasa knew the difference. That's why apsaras worried when they look to vyasa but not to shuka. Then vyasa understood that his son shuka is a person of reasonable birth. So vyasa called shuka and taught the complete veda knowledge, Upanishads, ithihasas and his greatest work BHAGAVATAM which helped shuka muni to find the god in himself. Shuka learnt Bhagavatam very well that he understands the each and every philosophy of it. Now he is ready to teach Bhagavatam.
( In our next blog we will discuss about the first listener of Bhagavatam.)
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