Question: I am now taking Bhakti Vaibhava course and although I am enjoying it immensely, I sometimes feel that Srimad Bhagavatam is so advanced that I find it difficult to understand – particularly, the 5th Canto. How should we approach the Bhagavatam or how should or could we understand better?

Guru Maharaj: Anyway, I think that Sukadeva Gosvami explained in Srimad Bhagavatam that nobody can understand and explain the universe. So he tried to do something, but he expressed his incapability of properly doing it. So don’t worry about not understanding the 5^th canto. If you understand it fully, tell us!  We have a whole committee, who is trying to present that in the West Wing, in the TOVP. Anyway, apart from that, Srimad Bhagavatam is mostly understandable. In the 5^th canto we saw that it is describing the way that Brahma, the higher entities see the universe. But the universe as seen by the demons, is presented in the Surya Siddhanta. And that was given some 174 million years ago, to the Maya demon, by the Sun god. So, that shows the planets the way we see them. So like that there are different visions, different points of view. So that way we are using Srimad Bhagavatam 5^th canto and Surya Siddhanta to present in the TOVP, West Wing. You can come and visit that when it is ready!!
07-Nov-2020  Śrī Māyāpur Dham, India