Sukadeva Goswami

Sukadeva Goswami (IAST IAST|Śukadeva Goswāmī), also know as "Sri Suka", "Sukadev" and "Brahmarata". A character in a number of Puranic text belonging to various traditions, mainly Vaishnavism. He is believed to be a son of Vyasadeva. It also believed that Vedavyasa first wrote Bharata-Samhita which contained twenty-four thousand verses (slokas) and taught that to his son Sukadeva.cite book
author = Bhattacharyya, A.K.
year = 2005
title = Bhagavan Shri Krsna & Bhagavat Dharma: English Translation of" Shri Krsna and Bhagavat Dharma" by Shri Jagadish Chandra Ghose
publisher = iUniverse
isbn = ] According to some sources he was born of the wife of Vyasa, however others argue that Vyasa's, "seed alone gives birth to his son Suka, whom Vyasa rears by himself, independent of all female influence."cite journal
author = Dhand, A.
year = 2004
title = The Subversive Nature of Virtue in the Mahabharata: A Tale about Women, Smelly Ascetics, and God
journal = Journal of the American Academy of Religion
volume = 72
issue = 1
pages = 33-58
url = http://jaar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/72/1/33
accessdate = 2008-05-12] Its also believed that Sukadeva Goswami surpassed the level of his fathers spiritual achievement as in the incident when following his son’s path Vyasa encounters a group of celestial bathing beauties.cite journal
author = Purdy, S.B.
year = 2006
title = Whitman and the (National) Epic: a Sanskrit Parallel
journal = Revue Francaise d Etudes Americaines
volume = 108
issue = 2006/2
pages = 23-32
url = http://www.cairn.info/article.php?ID_REVUE=RFEA&ID_NUMPUBLIE=RFEA_108&ID_ARTICLE=RFEA_108_0023
accessdate = 2008-05-12] Suka has purified to the degree, that ladies did not consider him to be of a distraction, but covered themselves when faced with his father. Suka was naked and young; Vyasa was aged and clothed.cite book
author = Venkatesananda, S.
year = 1989
title = The Concise Srimad Bhagavatam
publisher = State University of New York Press
isbn = ] He is sometimes portrayed naked to stress him transcending regular or expected social behavior.

Sukadeva is the key speaker of the Bhagavata Purana that has the first verse referencing to both the Brahma Sutras and the Gayatri of the Rig Veda. The language of the Purana is accepted to be closely resembling Vedic texts rather than other Puranas, thus its believed to be of early or Vedic times origins or was written to resemble Vedic texts.cite book
author=Sheridan, Daniel
title=The Advaitic Theism of the Bhagavata Purana
publisher=South Asia Books
location=Columbia, Mo
year=1986
pages=
isbn=81-208-0179-2
oclc=
doi=
accessdate=p.10] It is believed that according to Bhagavatam he was an impersonalist or monist in the beginning ( [http://srimadbhagavatam.com/2/1/9/en Bhag. P. 2.l.9] ); cite web
url=http://srimadbhagavatam.com/1/18/16/en
title=Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 1 Chapter 3 Verse 28
publisher=Bhaktivedanta Book Trust
accessdate=2008-05-07
last=Swami Prabhupada
first=A.C. Bhaktivedanta] but later on he was attracted by the transcendental activities of the Personal God and thus became a devotee and one of the main teachers of "Svayam bhagavan", Krishna.

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ee also

*Krishna
*Bhagavata Purana
*Svayam bhagavan