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Bhagavata Condensed in the Poetʼs Own Words / 441 Image 441 of 471 (Page 441)

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CULTURE

GOVERNMENT

THE BHAGAVATA

Personality.

The same emphasis on the
Personality of the Lord is effectively laid
in the preliminary story of the genesis of
the Bhagavata, of how Vyasa, at the
composed the
instance of Narada,

Bhagavata for singing exclusively of the
Lord's glories and thus removing the
depressing emptiness of his heart which
he felt even after his composing the great
Mahabharata and the other Puranas.
The very name of the Purana shows that.
it is the lays of the Lord par excellence.

JAYIN

and

Of the Principles, Dharma, Jnana and
Vairagya, the Lord Himself is the
embodiment. Devotion, Bhakti, to the
Personality, the Lord, is to be achieved.
and its achievement means and includes
the Principles also. Knowledge, Action,
and Devotion-Jnana, Karma, Bhakti-as
envisaged by the Bhagavata are neither
exclusive of each other nor contradictory.
To know truly is to love Him; and
Devotion can be of the best form only
when it is informed by Knowledge.
Knowledge and Love must express them--
selves in Acts of Devotion. But the Lord
seems to say in His discourse to Uddhava
that the path of Devotion is the best for
us, for it is suited to those who are
attached to various interests in life on
earth and yet have some spiritual yearn-
ings. This seems to be the meaning of
the saying that Bhakti is the path for the

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