Vedic Leadership seminar given by HH. Bhaktividya Purna Swami at ISKCON Sydney in 2010
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So now this next section we’ll discuss It’s chatuh shloki. The chatuh shloki are the essential four shlokis of the Vedas. When Krishna taught the Vedas to Brahma then having studied them then he asked Krishna what is the essence. So Krishna gave these four verses to Lord Brahma. later Brahma gave those to Narada and then Narada gave them to Vyasa. So it has been written the Mahabharata with the idea of creating the conclusion of the Vedic literature. Then, Narada Muni was not so impressed. He felt that it felt short because it may have given all the basic and such knowledge of the Vedas but it didn’t actually give the essential understanding of the Vedas. So Vyasadeva was then given these four verses and from that he expanded the Srimad Bhagavatam. So the Srimad Bhagavatam is the conclusion of all the Vedic literatures, and we see Prabhupada always mentions that, he wrote it in his maturity. So in his maturity then that he put this together. So the Bhagavatam is the essence of the Vedic literatures. The four shlokis are the basis on which the Bhagavatam is written…read full story
