Bhagwad Purana is one of the scripture which provides all encompassing gyan .

[rajbabas]

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Discussion and reading of Bhagwad Purana is recommended as it provides all encompassing knowledge.

 

[a-TB]

Discussion and reading of Bhagwad Purana is recommended as it provides all encompassing knowledge.

You are a new member. Welcome. This kind of sweeping statement is hard to understand. What is all encompassing knowledge? Do you have an example of what you gained by studying a story in Bhagavatha Purana. For example, there is a story of a demon who 'steals the vedas' to the bottom of ocean. From that story as an example, what insights can be gotten? How can veda (standing for knowledge) be stolen?

These stories are mythological stories. They are not historical account. They are made up story to make a point. What is the point and how it gives you all encompassing knowledge, whatever that means.

I doubt you may have an answer and if do you are welcome to respond.

 

[renuka]

I feel we should allow Rajbabas ji to share his understanding about the Bhagavatha Purana.
Puranas are mostly symbolic.

If a demon stole the vedas and took it to the bottom of the ocean...it could be symbolic of our own negative qualities that push higher truths to the deeper waters of our mind.
Our mind is nothing but thought waves..an ocean of frequency.

I would like Rajbabas ji to share his opinion and we could gain insight from his knowledge too.

Aano bhadra krtavo yantu vishwatah' (Meaning: Let noble thoughts come to me from all directions). ( Rig veda 1.89. 1)

 

[a-TB]

Teachings should map to all the principal aspects of a story

Good-bad, higher-lower etc are relative terms. Given circumstances they appear to change. Killing is bad but for a soldier being prepared to kill the ‘enemy’ is a must. In any case life is a pair of opposites.

There are stories like Krishna jumping into water and dancing on the head of a snake. Or Krishna with lots of Gopis. Most believe stories in a literal sense giving rise to religious beliefs and practices. This leads to contradictions. Or some pseudo explanation is concocted but that may contradict other possible teachings.

Significance is rarely spelled out in these Puranas. Bhagavatha purana is considered a vefantic text. One needs a right Tika to get the message

I am interested to know who is attributed to give cogent explanations and vedantic messages embedded in major stories of this purana