Index - Skandha X b.

 

21 May 2023, Sunday - Srimad Bhagavatam X b.50 - This begins the second part of Dashamaskandha. Jarasandha attacks Mathura seventeen times with a huge army. Sri Krishna and Balarama drive him away but spare his life. Sri Krishna creates Dwaraka, a divine city safe from attack.

22 May 2023, Monday - Srimad Bhagavatam X b.51 - The destruction of Kalayavana by "running away" and the salvation of the devotee King Muchukunda.

23 May 2023, Tuesday - Srimad Bhagavatam X b.52 - Princess Rukmini of Vidarbha sends a messenger with her letter professing love to Sri Krishna, urging him to come and wed her.

24 May 2023, Wednesday - Srimad Bhagavatam X b.53 - Sri Krishna arrives, and takes away Rukmini returning from the Devi temple in full view of all the rival kings.

25 May 2023, Thursday - Srimad Bhagavatam X b.54 -  Sri Krishna defeats the opposing kings who attack him from all around after seeing him kidnapping Rukmini. Sri Krishna spares Rukmi’s life but disfigures him. He brings Rukmini to Dwaraka to a great reception and marries her.

26 May 2023, Friday - Srimad Bhagavatam X b.55 -  The fascinating story of Pradyumna, son of Sri Krishna and Rukmini.

27 May 2023, Saturday - Srimad Bhagavatam X b.56 -  Sri Krishna clears his reputation by retrieving Syamantaka Mani, and weds Jambavati and Satyabhama.

28 May 2023, Sunday - Srimad Bhagavatam X b.57 -  Sri Krishna visits Hastinapura. Akrura is disgruntled and becomes an accessory to the murder of Satrajit and the theft of Syamantaka Mani. Sri Krishna establishes his possession of it and clears his own name again.

29 May 2023, Monday - Srimad Bhagavatam X b.58 -  Sri Krishna helps the Pandavas build a great capital and acquire divine weapons. Sri Krishna weds many princesses eager to marry him.

30 May 2023, Tuesday - Srimad Bhagavatam X b.59 -  Sri Krishna kills Bhauma Narakasura, and marries all the sixteen thousand one hundred princesses held in captivity by the demon, who have nowhere else to go.

He keeps everyone happy as only he can.

31 May 2023, Tuesday - Srimad Bhagavatam X b.60 Part A-  A most interesting dialogue between Devi Rukmini and Sri Krishan covering a gamut of lessons for us! Done in two parts. This is Part A.

1 June 2023, Thursday - Srimad Bhagavatam X b.60 Part B-   Devi Rukmini gives an insightful reply to Bhagavan.

2 June 2023, Friday - Srimad Bhagavatam X b.61-   Rukmi cheats and ridicules Balarama in a gambling match on the occasion of Aniruddha's wedding. Balarama slays him.

3 June 2023, Saturday - Srimad Bhagavatam X b.62 and 63-   The Bollywood potboiler story of Usha's wedding Aniruddha after the battle between Sri Krishna and Shiva himself!

8 June 2023, Thursday - Srimad Bhagavatam X b.68 -  Sri Krishna's son Samba goes to Duryodhana's daughter Lakshmana's Swayamvara and carries her away. He is attacked and imprisoned by Kauravas. Balarama comes and releases him after answering Kauravas' extreme arrogance and insult to Vrishnis and Yadus.

9 June 2023, Friday - Srimad Bhagavatam X b.69 -  Sage Narada comes to witness firsthand the Leela of Bhagavan Sri Krishna play-acting his many roles in this world of Yoga Maya.

10 June 2023, Saturday - Srimad Bhagavatam X b.70 -  A typical day in the splendid life of Sri Krishna. The desperate plea of royal prisoners of Jarasandha. Also, Narada comes with the Rajasuya invite from Yudhishthira.

11 June 2023, Sunday - Srimad Bhagavatam X b.71 -  The astute Uddhava explains how Jarasandha can be killed only by Bhima. Sri Krishna proceeds to Indraprastha for attending the Rajasuya. He receives a very grand reception.

12 June 2023, Sunday - Srimad Bhagavatam X b.72 -  Yudhishthira extols the great qualities of Bhagavan Sri Krishna. Preparations are made for the Rajasuya. Jarasandha is slain by Bhima.

13 June 2023, Tuesday - Srimad Bhagavatam X b.73 -  Bhagavan releases 20,800 royals, blesses them and sends them with full honours back to their kingdoms.

14 June 2023, Wednesday - Srimad Bhagavatam X b.74 -  In his Rajasuya Yajna, with gods, rishis and kings present, King Yudhishthira offers the highest worship to Bhagavan Sri Krishna as Agrapuja.

15 June 2023, Thursday - Srimad Bhagavatam X b.74 Contd.-  Shishupala objects to Sri Krishna's being worshipped and roundly insults him. Sri Krishna decapitates him with his Sudarshana Chakra. shuka concludes by saying this ended the three-time birth cycle of Bhagavan's attendant in Vaikuntha who had to be born an archenemy of the Lord and be liberated at His own hands.

16 June 2023, Friday - Srimad Bhagavatam X b.75 -  Duryodhana burns with jealousy and humiliation in the Maya-built magical palace of Yudhishthira. 

17 June 2023, Saturday - Srimad Bhagavatam X b.76 -  There is a terrific battle between King Shalva, a Shishupala and Jarasandha sympathiser and the Vrishnis when Shalva attacks Dwaraka in his magical aerial vehicle Saubha which has been granted to him as a boon by Lord Shiva.

18 June 2023, Sunday - Srimad Bhagavatam X b.77 -  Sri Krishna enters the battlefield and kills the nearly unassailable Shalva.

19 June 2023, Monday - Srimad Bhagavatam X b.78 -  Sri Krishna slays Dantavaktra. Balarama goes to Naimisharnya and commits an impetuous act of Adharma.

20 June 2023, Tuesday - Srimad Bhagavatam X b.79 -  Balarama's pilgrimage.

21 June 2023, Wednesday - Srimad Bhagavatam X b.80 -  Sudama comes to meet Sri Krishna.

22 June 2023, Thursday - Srimad Bhagavatam X b.81 -  Sudama receives Bhagavan's grace.

23 June 2023, Friday - Srimad Bhagavatam X b.82 -  Sri Krishna meets all his friends and devotees, including Gopis in a reunion at Kuruskhetra.

24 June 2023, Friday - Srimad Bhagavatam X b.83 -  Sri Krishna's queens joyfully recount their marriages and their circumstances when Sri Krishna wed them to Queen Draupadi. 

25 June 2023, Sunday - Srimad Bhagavatam X b.84 -  The greatest sages come and help Vasudeva conduct great Yajnas, all the time wondering within themselves about the Leela of Bhagavan.

26 June 2023, Monday - Srimad Bhagavatam X b.85 -  Sri Krishna teaches Vasudeva about the Atma and how it pervades everything and is beyond dualities. He also brings back the six babies whom Devaki had lost at birth killed by Kamsa.

27 June 2023, Tuesday - Srimad Bhagavatam X b.86 -  Arjuna weds Subhadra. Sri Krishna visits and gives Darshan simultaneously to the king of Mithila and a poor Brahmin in two different places.

28 June 2023, Wednesday - Srimad Bhagavatam X b.87 Part 1 -  This is a serious discussion on Brahman, Vedas, and the spiritual life. 

29 June 2023, Thursday - Srimad Bhagavatam X b.87 Part 2 -  The Vedas depict the connection between Bhagavan, Ishwara or Brahman and creation and the path to realisation.

30 June 2023, Friday - Srimad Bhagavatam X b.87 Summary -  A summary in my own words of this important and exhaustive chapter on Vedas and Brahman.

1 July 2023, Saturday - Srimad Bhagavatam X b.88-  Vrikasura takes advantage of Lord Shiva's ready grace and Maha Vishnu steps in to mend matters.

2 July 2023, Sunday - Srimad Bhagavatam X b.89-  Sage Bhrigu tests and establishes who is supreme among the Trinity. Sri Krishna helps Arjuna fulfil his promise to a Brahmin to bring back his dead sons.

3 July 2023, Monday - Srimad Bhagavatam X b.90- A wrap-up of the Leelas of Bhagavan Sri Krishna in Dwaraka.