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All living entities originate from the Absolute Truth, maintain their lives by the Absolute Truth and ultimately enter into the Absolute Truth. There are three reasons why \"Shrimad-Bhagavatam\" does not describe the svarupa of the Absolute Truth: 1) We do not have direct experience of God, therefore, if \"Shrimad-Bhagavatam\" starts describing svarupa, we will project our material experience into these descriptions; 2) Everything has an invisible root, and \"Shrimad-Bhagavatam\" describes this invisible root by describing the visible reality; 3) \"Shrimad-Bhagavatam\" wants to give us aparoksha jnana, or direct knowledge. \"Shrimad-Bhagavatam\" wants to show us this beautiful picture of reality in which we can be productive, efficient, happy, and at the same time realise the Absolute Truth.

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The main topics of \"Shrimad-Bhagavatam\" are: 1) sarga (primary creation); 2) visarga (secondary creation); 3) sthanam (maintenance); 4) poshanam (nourishment); 5) uti (the creative impetus); 6) manvantara (rules and regulations); 7) isanukatha (different manifestations of devotion); 8) nirodha (dissolution); 9) mukti (liberation); 10) asraya (the Absolute Truth).

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\"Shrimad-Bhagavatam\" helps us to realise our relationship with the Lord by gradually reading it from the First canto to the last.

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