Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.5.8
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
The eternal relation of an individual soul with the Supreme Soul Personality of Godhead is constitutionally one of being the eternal servitor of the eternal master. The Lord has expanded Himself as living beings in order to accept loving service from them, and this alone can satisfy both the Lord and the living beings. Such a scholar as Vyāsadeva has completed many expansions of the Vedic literatures, ending with the Vedānta philosophy, but none of them have been written directly glorifying the Personality of Godhead. Dry philosophical speculations even on the transcendental subject of the Absolute have very little attraction without directly dealing with the glorification of the Lord. The Personality of Godhead is the last word in transcendental realization. The Absolute realized as impersonal Brahman or localized Supersoul, Paramātmā, is less productive of transcendental bliss than the supreme personal realization of His glories.
The compiler of the Vedānta-darśana is Vyāsadeva himself. Yet he is troubled, although he is the author. So what sort of transcendental bliss can be derived by the readers and listeners of Vedānta which is not explained directly by Vyāsadeva, the author? Herein arises the necessity of explaining Vedānta-sūtra in the form of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam by the self-same author.
You have not described much at all (anudita-prāyam) about the spotless glories of the Lord—the superior position of bhagavān’s forms above all other forms, and the supreme attractiveness of his pastimes and bhakti.
“But I have produced the brahma-mīmāṁsa scripture, the vedānta-darṣana.”
“I consider that darśana scripture to be deficient (khilam). You are the writer of Vedānta and if your mind is dissatisfied with this, then how will those who continually study this darśana be satisfied? You are the proof that this darśana is insufficient.”
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- How would my work change if I evaluated it by whether it pleases the Lord, not by reach or reception?
- Which of my sophisticated arguments might be, by this measure, worthless?
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