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The Bhagavata Purana (Sanskrit: भागवतपुराण; IAST: Bhāgavata Purāṇa), also known as the Srimad Bhagavatam (Śrīmad Bhāgavatam), Srimad Bhagavata Mahapurana (Śrīmad Bhāgavata Mahāpurāṇa) or simply Bhagavata (Bhāgavata), is one of Hinduism's eighteen great Puranas (Mahapuranas).
- Creation.
- The Cosmic Manifestation.
- The Status Quo.
- The Creation of the Fourth Order.
The Srimad Bhagavatam is one of greatest books of Bhakti in our tradition. Immensely popular all over India, it has inspired poets, saints and artists, as it provides a great range of material for their art.
Srimad Bhagavatam: Prahalada tells his father (Hiranyakashipu) that there are nine forms of bhakti or devotion -- sravanam, keerthanam, smaranam, paada sevanam, archanam, vandanam, daasyam, sakhyam, atma nivedanam.
This Srimad Bhagavatam compiled by Srila Vyasadeva was then spoken to Sukadeva Goswami, who explained it to Pariksit Maharaja. The way self-realized souls perceive spiritual knowledge is different from ours.
The word bhāga means fortune or luck, while the term bhaga refers to gracious lord, happiness and wealth. To be fortunate Vedically means to be of the opulence, or to carry, or live by, nalism and the philosophy of emptiness. the fullness of God's riches, beauty, fame, power, knowledge and detachment.
Bhagavata, member of the earliest Hindu sect of which there is any record, representing the beginnings of theistic devotional worship (bhakti) in Hinduism and of modern Vaishnavism (worship of the god Vishnu).
