“The challenge for teachers in today’s distracting world is to catch and retain students’ attention. Students, even if they can avoid distractions, still can easily be overawed by the vastness and seeming complexity of shastra. In such a setting, the Subodhini series comes to the aid of shastra teachers and shastra students by presenting the foremost texts of our tradition accessibly and appealingly. As our movement strives to create more resources for promoting education, the Subodhini series prepared by Gauranga Darshan Prabhu counts among the most valuable resources available for devotees in their efforts to savor and share the treasure of shastra that Srila Prabhupada has gifted us.”

“With eighteen thousand verses, the Srimad Bhagavatam is a vast treasure house of philosophy, pastimes, and poetic beauty. It can be challenging even for learned readers to grasp the structure and content of this spotless Purana. Gauranga Darshan Prabhu has done an immense service to the Vaishnava community by making the Bhagavatam easy to understand (subodhini) by summarizing the contents of each chapter, showing the interconnections between different sections, and highlighting key verses. I thank Gauranga Darshan Prabhu and the Bhakivedanta Vidyapitha Research Center for this wonderful gift.”

“Given the importance of the Bhagavata Purana and the increase in general interest in its content, study guides such as the present publication are to be enthusiastically welcomed by students of the text. The initial two volumes of Bhagavata Subodhini, comprising the first three skandhas of the Bhagavata, offer a chapter-by-chapter analysis, with a more detailed focus on the most significant verses. Such volumes will be most useful for classes and workshops.”

“Bhagavata Subodhini is a praiseworthy project for deepening our appreciation of the Bhagavatam, particularly from the insight of Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti. By concisely organizing his analysis of the work, the devotee will be able to relish both the Bhagavatam and Visvanatha’s realizations. Caitanya Mahaprabhu has accepted Bhagavatam as the main pramana since it is the conclusion of all scriptures. By understanding its import the devotee will be able to grasp the theology, practice and goal of the Vedic tradition in a most compact form.”