1. Introduction Srimad Bhagavatam Canto Eight Anjana Suta Academy
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2. 1-4 Manus 1- 4, Gajendra-Moksana (Lord Hari)
Canto Eight
Analysis by Chapter Groups
In Canto Eight Maharaja Pariksit asks about the thirteen other Manus.
1-4 Manus 1- 4, Gajendra-Moksana (Lord Hari)
5-12 Manus 5 & 6, Churning of the Milk Ocean (Kurma and Mohini)
13-14 Manus 7-14 and the duties of Manu.
5-24 Current Manu, 7, Bali-Vamana and Mastya

3. CHAPTER ONE Text Groupings 1-3 – Petition by M. Pariksit
4-8 – Manus, Svayambhuva Manu, Kapila, Yajna Svayambhuva Manu Prayed.
9-16 – SM’s prayers

4. SB  — King Parīkṣit said: O my lord, my spiritual master, now I have fully heard from Your Grace about the dynasty of Svāyambhuva Manu. But there are also other Manus, and I want to hear about their dynasties. Kindly describe them to us.
O learned brāhmaṇa, Śukadeva Gosvāmī, the great learned persons who are completely intelligent describe the activities and appearance of the Supreme Personality of Godhead during the various manvantaras. We are very eager to hear about these narrations. Kindly describe them.
O learned brāhmaṇa, kindly describe to us whatever activities the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who created this cosmic manifestation, has performed in the past manvantaras, is performing at present, and will perform in the future manvantaras.

5. Chapter One has 33-Verses
SB 8.1.1
śrī-rājovāca
svāyambhuvasyeha guro  vaṁśo ’yaṁ vistarāc chrutaḥ yatra viśva-sṛjāṁ sargo  manūn anyān vadasva naḥ

6. SB 8.1.1
śrī-rājovāca
svāyambhuvasyeha guro  vaṁśo ’yaṁ vistarāc chrutaḥ yatra viśva-sṛjāṁ sargo  manūn anyān vadasva naḥ
Translation: 
King Parīkṣit said: O my lord, my spiritual master, now I have fully heard from Your Grace about the dynasty of Svāyambhuva Manu. But there are also other Manus, and I want to hear about their dynasties. Kindly describe them to us.

7. SB 8.1.2
manvantare harer janma  karmāṇi ca mahīyasaḥ gṛṇanti kavayo brahmaṁs  tāni no vada śṛṇvatām
O learned brāhmaṇa, Śukadeva Gosvāmī, the great learned persons who are completely intelligent describe the activities and appearance of the Supreme Personality of Godhead during the various manvantaras. We are very eager to hear about these narrations. Kindly describe them.

8. Purport: 
The Supreme Personality of Godhead has different varieties of incarnations, including the guṇa-avatāras, manvantara-avatāras, līlā-avatāras and yuga-avatāras, all of which are described in the śāstras. Without reference to the śāstras there can be no question of accepting anyone as an incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Therefore, as especially mentioned here, gṛṇanti kavayaḥ: the descriptions of various incarnations are accepted by great learned scholars with perfect intelligence.

9. At the present time, especially in India, so many rascals are claiming to be incarnations, and people are being misled.
Therefore, the identity of an incarnation should be confirmed by the descriptions of the śāstras and by wonderful activities. As described in this verse by the word mahīyasaḥ, the activities of an incarnation are not ordinary magic or jugglery, but are wonderful activities. 

10. Thus any incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead must be supported by the statements of the śāstra and must actually perform wonderful activities.
Parīkṣit Mahārāja was eager to hear about the Manus of different ages.
There are fourteen Manus during a day of Brahmā, and the age of each Manu lasts for seventy-one yugas. Thus there are thousands of Manus during the life of Brahmā.

11. SB 8.1.3
yad yasminn antare brahman  bhagavān viśva-bhāvanaḥ kṛtavān kurute kartā  hy atīte ’nāgate ’dya vā
O learned brāhmaṇa, kindly describe to us whatever activities the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who created this cosmic manifestation, has performed in the past manvantaras, is performing at present, and will perform in the future manvantaras.

12. In Bhagavad-gītā the Supreme Personality of Godhead said that both He and the other living entities present on the battlefield had existed in the past, they existed at present, and they would continue to exist in the future. Past, present and future always exist, both for the Supreme Personality of Godhead and for ordinary living entities. Nityo nityānāṁ cetanaś cetanānām (Kaṭha Upaniṣad 2.2.13). Both the Lord and the living entities are eternal and sentient, but . . .

13. . . .the difference is that the Lord is unlimited whereas the living entities are limited. The Supreme Personality of Godhead is the creator of everything, and although the living entities are not created but exist with the Lord eternally, their bodies are created, whereas the Supreme Lord’s body is never created.
There is no difference between the Supreme Lord and His body, but the conditioned soul, although eternal, is different from his body.

14. SB 8.1.4 — Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: In the present kalpa there have already been six Manus. I have described to you Svāyambhuva Manu and the appearance of many
demigods. In this kalpa of Brahmā, Svāyambhuva is the first Manu.
SB 8.1.5 — Svāyambhuva Manu had two daughters, named Ākūti and Devahūti. From their wombs, the Supreme Personality of Godhead appeared as two sons named Yajñamūrti and Kapila respectively. These sons were entrusted with preaching about religion and knowledge.

15. SB 8.1.6 — O best of the Kurus, I have already described [in the Third Canto] the activities of Kapila, the son of Devahūti. Now I shall describe the activities of Yajñapati, the son of Ākūti.
SB Purport: 
Devahūti’s son was known as Kapila, and Ākūti’s son was known as Yajñamūrti. Both of Them taught about religion and philosophical knowledge.

16. SB 8.1.7 — Svāyambhuva Manu, the husband of Śatarūpā, was by nature not at all attached to enjoyment of the senses. Thus he gave up his kingdom of sense enjoyment and entered the forest with his wife to practice austerities.
SB 8.1.8 — O scion of Bharata, after Svāyambhuva Manu had thus entered the forest with his wife, he stood on one leg on the bank of the river Sunandā, and in this way, with only one leg touching the earth, he performed great austerities for one hundred years. While performing these austerities, he spoke as follows.

17. SB 8.1.9
śrī-manur uvāca
yena cetayate viśvaṁ  viśvaṁ cetayate na yam yo jāgarti śayāne ’smin  nāyaṁ taṁ veda veda saḥ
Lord Manu said: The supreme living being has created this material world of animation; it is not that He was created by this material world. When everything is silent, the Supreme Being stays awake as a witness. The living entity does not know Him, but He knows everything.

18. Who is Svāyambhuva Manu?
First of the fourteen Manus.
Came out of Brahma SB
His Children are DAPUP
He gave us Manu-saṁhita. SB
He instructs Dhruva on controlling anger in SB 4.11 ( )
Yamarāja states he is one of the Mahajanas: SB
Can we propose all the other 13 Manu’s came from him?

19. Highlights in Svāyambhuva Manu’s prayers (SB 8.1.9-16)
Seems to be in the śānta-rasa. Supersoul consciousness acknowledging personal form outside material world in
Kṛṣṇa’s activities in relation to the creation & maintenance of the material world ( ) Kṛṣṇa as the super soul and friend of living entities (8.1.10, )
Kṛṣṇa’s nature of working without entanglement and the process of Karma yoga which gives us same freedom from work ( ) Manu’s request to all of us to worship Kṛṣṇa. ( & )

20. 8.1.9
Lord Manu said:
The supreme living being has created this material world of animation;
it is not that He was created by this material world.
When everything is silent, the Supreme Being stays awake as a witness.
The living entity does not know Him, but He knows everything.
Animates: Cetayate – na cetayate
Knows: Veda – na veda
KU & the dreaming stages

21. Proprierorship on things and distribution of wealth in ISKCON
8.1.10
Within this universe, the Supreme Personality of Godhead in His Supersoul feature is present everywhere, wherever there are animate or inanimate beings.
Therefore, one should accept only that which is allotted to him;
one should not desire to infringe upon the property of others.
Similar to ISO Text 1 with a different meaning for āvāsyam (supersoul/controller)
Etymology of Man
Proprierorship on things and distribution of wealth in ISKCON

22. 8.1.11
Although the Supreme Personality of Godhead constantly watches the activities of the world, no one sees Him.
However, one should not think that because no one sees Him, He does not see, for His power to see is never diminished.
Therefore, everyone should worship the Supersoul, who always stays with the individual soul as a friend.
Seeing: Paśyantam - na paśyati. But through guru cakṣuḥ unmītam
Worship your friend: suparṇam upadhāvata

23. 8.1.12
The Supreme Personality of Godhead has no beginning, no end and no middle.
Nor does He belong to a particular person or nation.
He has no inside or outside.
The dualities found within this material world, such as beginning and end, mine and theirs, are all absent from the personality of the Supreme Lord.

24. No dualities of the material world are found in Him
8.1.12
The universe, which emanates from Him, is another feature of the Lord.
Therefore the Supreme Lord is the ultimate truth, and He is complete in greatness.
No dualities of the material world are found in Him
acintya-bhedābheda

25. The īha Verses
– 16 are about His activites in the material world which are transcendental and how if we work for Him our activities will also be transcendental Īha means endeavor. Comes from verb root īh = desire/endeavor You will see the word īha in all verses has nirīha (without desire for activity)
īh[a] ceṣṭa-vāñchayoḥ 1A sak to endeavor; to desire

26. puru-hūta-īśaḥ — Lord who is known by so many names
8.1.13
The entire cosmic manifestation is the body of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Absolute Truth, who has millions of names and unlimited potencies.
He is self-effulgent, unborn and changeless.
He is the beginning of everything, but He has no beginning.
Because He has created this cosmic manifestation by His external energy, the universe appears to be created, maintained and annihilated by Him.
Nonetheless, He remains inactive in His spiritual energy and is untouched by the activities of the material energy.
puru-hūta-īśaḥ — Lord who is known by so many names
Vidyayā = cic-chaktyā

27. 8.1.14
Therefore, to enable people to reach the stage of activities that are not tinged by fruitive results, great saints first engage people in fruitive activities,
for unless one begins by performing activities as recommended in the śāstras, one cannot reach the stage of liberation, or activities that produce no reactions.
Īhante akarma hetave
naiṣkarmyam apy acyuta-bhāva-varjitaḿ
na śobhate jñānam alaḿ nirañjanam
Do not imitate Haridasa Thakura

28. 8.1.15
The Supreme Personality of Godhead is full in opulence by His own gain,
yet He acts as the creator, maintainer and annihilator of this material world.
In spite of acting in that way, He is never entangled.
Hence devotees who follow in His footsteps are also never entangled.
Na visajjate
Ye anu tam Na avasīdanti
Visajjate = entangled. Silk worm example and man-mana bhava purport

29. Follow Caitanya Mahaprabhu; Practice and Preach
8.1.16
The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, works just like an ordinary human being, yet He does not desire to enjoy the fruits of work.
He is full in knowledge, free from material desires and diversions, and completely independent.
As the supreme teacher of human society, He teaches His own way of activities, and thus He inaugurates the real path of religion.
I request everyone to follow Him.
Prabhuṁ prapadye
Follow Caitanya Mahaprabhu; Practice and Preach

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