PURPORT

Unless one is not perfectly anxious to enquire about the way of perfection, there is no necessity of approaching a spiritual master. A spiritual master is not a kind of decoration for the householders. Generally the fashionable materialist engages a so-called spiritual master without any profit. The psuedo-spiritual master flatters the so-called disciple and thereby both the master and ward go to hell without any doubt. Maharaj Parikshit is the right type of disciple because he puts forward questions vital to the interest of all men generally and particularly for the dying men. The question put forward by Maharaj Parikshit is the basic principle of the complete thesis of 'Srimad Bhagwatam' and let us see how inteolligently the great master replies them one after another.