Lectures and Commentaries on Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 2, made in Vrindavan (India)
The purpose of Śrīmad Bhāgavatam is to glorify the Supreme Absolute Truth, known as Śrī Kṛṣṇa, for the benefit of the suffering humanity. Śrī Vyāsa himself calls this Purāṇa the ripened fruit of the Vedic tree and compares it to the personification of rasa, or devotional relish. It is to be tasted by the rasikas, the connoisseurs of rasa, and relished by the sahṛdayas, the sober-hearted people or those whose hearts are imbued with sattva (SB 1.1.3)
Mother is the first guru. The mother is 1,000 times more important than the father because she keeps the baby in the womb, and later nourishes her physically as well as mentally. Thus mother supplies both the hardware as well as the software of the baby. The baby absorbs the mother’s emotions like a sponge. This gets programmed in the chitta of the baby, and influences her character for the rest of her life.
