Introduction to Fourth Canto – “Visargam”

Bhagavatham is not a mere book of stories. Bhagavatham helps us to look within, with an investigative mind and discover our weakness as well as strength.  We may wonder, what it matters, if we discover our weakness and strength. Remember, our weakness is like a rat that slowly destroys things that we store, without our knowledge. Similarly, our negative and weak mind can spoil our health, create diseases, hence spoil the relations and it can force us to live in a state of depression and worry.  Ultimately, our vision of life that “I should be healthy, wealthy and happy” will become a nightmare.

The secret of happiness does not exist outside. But we can understand that, it is always there in the healthy state of mind. To develop a healthy mind we need spiritual Sadhana like Satsang, meditation and sincere involvement in all our activities. Bhagavatham shows the right path, also the easiest path, to make our life a real celebration. Each canto of Bhagavatham indicates the possibilities of our weakness and gives right examples through stories, how we can transform these weaknesses to strengths.