The six questions of the sages - Srimad Bhagavatam #2

This is the second section of an in-depth course on the Srimad Bhagavatam we are conducting.
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In this part:
- The Vedas contain all knowledge, but most people are interested in the parts that teach how to get material results (Karma-kanda)
- Some people go to the Jnana-kanda, which speaks about spiritual knowledge. However, the Bhagavatam is the highest knowledge.
- People of our age, who have limited attention and short lives can attain perfection by just studying the Srimad Bhagavatam.
- This knowledge is so attractive that it can attract everyone, even people who are already liberated (atmaramas verse).
- Liberation is actually not the ultimate goal. After liberation, one still has to develop love for Krsna.
- Love for Krsna, or prema is the eternal nature of the soul, and only when one attains this prema will he become fully satisfied.
- Srimad Bhagavatam is the book that directly speaks about this pure devotional service to Krsna, and therefore it can attract everyone, including all kinds of liberated souls
- Everyone is already attracted to Krsna, but we are attracted in the wrong way.
- All beauty, power, strength, intelligence, knowledge, and renunciation, comes from Krsna. The qualities we see in different beings and objects are just faint reflections of the opulence of Krsna. They are just like mirrors.
- We need to become attracted to the person being reflected, and not the mirror.
- When we become attracted by the illusion, instead of the real Self, Krsna, we end up being abandoned by all these things. Everything that is separated from Krsna becomes temporary.
- Only when we become attracted to the final source of all these things, Krsna, can we find eternal happiness.
- The Bhagavatam is thus a book that teaches us to find happiness.
- The special quality of the Srimad Bhagavatam is that by regularly hearing from it our minds become attracted to Krsna, and we lose interest in the things of this material world.
- The Srimad Bhagavatam starts in the forest of Naimisharanya.
- Great sages executed a great sacrifice for 1,000 years to try to counteract the negative influences of this age. They asked Suta Goswami to speak.
- Suta Goswami is the son of Romahashana.
- Romahashana became proud and offended Balarama, who punished him.
- Suta was blessed by Lord Balarama to speak the Puranas and later the Srimad Bhagavatam.
- Vyasadeva first spoke the original version of Srimad Bhagavatam to Sukadeva Goswami, who later explained it to Maharaja Pariksit. Suta Goswami was also present, and later he spoke to the sages in the forest of Naimisharanya.
Qualifications of Suta Goswami:
- Free from all vice.
- Well-versed in all the scriptures. Studied and explained them many times.
- The most senior learned Vedāntist.
- Acquainted with the knowledge of Vyāsadeva, blessed by Balarama and his spiritual masters.
- Became qualified by submissively hearing from his spiritual masters.
The six questions of the sages:
- What is the ultimate good for people?
- What is the essence of the scriptures?
- Why and how did Krsna appear on this planet as the son of Vasudeva and Devaki?
- What are the activities and pastimes Krsna displays in His different purusha incarnations, in creating the material universes?
- What are the transcendental incarnations of the Lord and their pastimes?
- What became the shelter of the religious principles after Krsna left our planet, five thousand years ago?