Idam bhAgavatam nAma purANam brahma samhitam

Nama Article 3rd May 2011

 

Source: http://www.namadwaar.org/articles/BhavasInBhagavatam2.html

 

In the first Canto, Sage Suta talks about the great Purana called Srimad Bhagavatam with the following sloka:

Idam bhAgavatam nAma        purANam brahma samhitam |

इदं भागवतं नाम पुराणं ब्रह्म-सम्मितम्

(…such is the Purana by name Bhagavatam, a text which is verily the essence of all the Vedas…)

 

 

Our way of interpreting this is,

Idam bhAgavatam       nAma purANam brahma samhitam |

(…such is Bhagavatam, which is verily a Purana of Nama, and also the essence of all the Vedas…)

 

Please check these: Excerpts from a discourse by our Sri Sri Muralidhara Swamiji

 

http://guruandnamakirtan.blogspot.com/2007/04/essence-of-srimad-bhgavatam.html

 

Chant the Mahamantra Nama kirtan :

 

Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare 
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare