Sukadeva
Goswami is the son and disciple of Sri Vyasadeva. He recited and spoke
the Srimad Bhagavatam to Parikshit Maharaja. He is the lovely parrot of
Radharani in spiritual world ,
Goloka Vrindavan.
Goloka Vrindavan.
Srila Prabhupada in Bhagavatam writes about Sukadeva Goswami as follows
Sukadeva
Goswami(Brahmarata): The famous son and disciple of Sri Vyasadeva, who taught
him first the Mahabharataand then Srimad-Bhagavatam. Sukadeva Goswamirecited
1,400,000 verses of the Mahabharatain the councils of the Gandharvas, Yaksas
and Raksasas, and he recited Srimad-Bhagavatam for the first time in the
presence of Maharaja Pariksit. He thoroughly studied all the Vedic literatures
from his great father. Thus he was a completely purified soul by dint of his
extensive knowledge in the principles of religion. From Mahabharata, Sabha-parva
(4.11) it is understood that he was also present in the royal assembly of Maharaja
Yudhisöhira and at the fasting of Maharaja Pariksit. As a bona fide disciple of
Sri Vyasadeva, he inquired from his father very extensively about religious
principles and spiritual values, and his great father also satisfied him by
teaching him the yoga system by which one can attain the spiritual kingdom, the
difference between fruitive work and empiric knowledge, the ways and means of
attaining spiritual realization, the four aSramas (namely the student life, the
householder's life, the retired life and the renounced life), the sublime
position of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the process of seeing Him eye
to eye, the bona fide candidate for receiving knowledge, the consideration of the
five elements, the unique position of intelligence, the consciousness of the
material nature and the living entity, the symptoms of the self-realized soul,
the working principles of the material body, the symptoms of the influential
modes of nature, the tree of perpetual desire, and psychic activities.
Sometimes he went to the sun planet with the permission of his father and Naradaji.
Descriptions of his travel in space are given in the Santi-parva of the Mahabharata(332).
At last he attained the transcendental realm. He is known by different names
like Araneya, Arunisuta, Vaiyasaki and Vyasatmaja
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