A sev­en-night Sri­mad Bhaag­wat Ma­ha Pu­ran Yagna was or­gan­ised by Dat­ta­treya Yo­ga Cen­tre (DYC) from Ju­ly 24 to 30 in the di­vine guid­ance of Sri Gana­p­athi Sachchi­danan­da Swami­ji. The ex­po­si­tion Bhaag­wat Ma­ha­pu­ran, with its 12 skand­has (chap­ters) and 18,000 slokas (vers­es), is an eter­nal foun­tain-head of spir­i­tu­al knowl­edge which is as rel­e­vant to­day as it was when it first came in­to ex­is­tence. It pro­vides that foun­da­tion where­by hu­man­i­ty can keep steady and get so­lace and hope in this age. Swa­mi Brah­madeo ji and Swa­mi Man­asa ji, two em­i­nent­ly di­vine per­son­al­i­ties of In­dia, pre­sent­ed dis­cours­es on the Bhaag­wat Ma­ha Pu­ran with the katha's (scrip­tur­al read­ings) mean­ing and philoso­phies.

The dis­sem­i­na­tion of the high­est knowl­edge of the holy scrip­ture was done in such a unique man­ner. The Sri­mad Bhaag­watam's es­sen­tial­ly in­trin­sic val­ues trans­formed the ashram of DYC in­to a mul­ti­ver­si­ty, where all bhak­tas (devo­tees) gath­ered to drink the am­brosial nec­tar as both Swami­jis churned this ocean of knowl­edge, giv­ing the nec­tar of spir­i­tu­al bliss to hu­man­i­ty. There was no as­pect of teach­ing that was left out, all lis­ten­ers re­ceived three-fold knowl­edge: spir­i­tu­al, sci­en­tif­ic and aca­d­e­m­ic.

Swa­mi Brah­madeo ji pre­sent­ed the great speak­er tra­di­tion of Bhaag­watam, from Narayan to Brah­ma, Brah­ma to Nara­da, Nara­da to Sukhdev ji, Sukhdev ji to Parik­shit and Sut ji then to Jan­me­jaya and Ugrashrawa.

The ide­al of house­hold­ing life was pre­sent­ed through the katha of Manu and Sha­tru­pa, Kar­dama and De­vahuti and Kashyap and Adi­ti. Dur­ing his dis­course Swami­ji gave the Vedan­tic mean­ing of Putana.

He said: "Putana is a sym­bol of ig­no­rance (Avidya) and Kalianaag (snake) is a sym­bol of all types of neg­a­tiv­i­ty in life which is like poi­son." Bhag­wan Sri Kr­ish­na de­stroyed Putana and Kalianag and van­quished 14 Rak­shas(neg­a­tive forces). These 14 neg­a­tive forces, Swa­mi Brah­madeo ji said, was a sym­bol of the im­pu­ri­ties of the ten sense or­gans and mind, in­tel­lect, con­scious­ness and ego (Man, Bud­dhi, Chit and Aham). Swami­ji ex­plained that the Go­vard­han pu­ja and mes­sage was not sim­ply a sto­ry.

"Go means sense or­gans, Vard­han means to de­vel­op and grow. To el­e­vate the sense or­gans to­wards di­vine con­scious­ness is the mean­ing of Go­vard­han. If we want to re­move these neg­a­tiv­i­ties that af­flict our lives, our ef­fort, Gu­ru and God's grace is nec­es­sary," he said. In a beau­ti­ful re­count of Rasleela and Ma­ha Rasleela (sportive games), Swami­ji clear­ly ex­pressed that the Gopis were Vedic mantras and seers of Tre­tayug, who ap­peared in Dwa­par yug dur­ing the leela of Sri Kr­ish­na. Fi­nal­ly, he touched on the Avad­hootas of Bhaag­watam.