Workshop on Analyzing Bhāgavatam Verses and Reading Their Sanskrit Commentaries
This commentary workshop goes on continuously, accommodating itself to new students as they join it. Each day, one verse or more of the Bhāgavatam is studied in depth. The grammar of the verse is analyzed, first one word at a time and then putting the sentences together. The students are guided by the teacher to do the analysis themselves. After finishing the analysis of a verse, our sampradāya’s major Sanskrit commentaries on the verse are looked at, including the commentaries of Śrīdhara Svāmī, Jīva Gosvāmī, and Viśvanātha Cakravartī. The commentaries are scrutinized sentence by sentence, and if necessary word by word, and the teacher helps the students understand difficult points.
Besides being an excellent meditation on Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, this course puts into practice the grammar learned in the Hari-nāmāmṛta-vyākaraṇa course.