Revealed Scriptures
105
[Kṛṣṇa], please let us know the date when Your mother Devakī devī gave birth to You. If You kindly inform us about this, then we shall observe a great celebration on this date. O killer of Keśī, we are souls one hundred percent surrendered unto Your lotus feet, and we wish only to please You with our ceremonies.”
This statement of the  Bhaviṣya Purāṇa  gives evidence that by observing different functions in relationship with the Lord one is sure to become pleasing to the Lord. It is said in the  Ādi Purāṇa : “A person who is constantly engaged in chanting the holy name and who feels transcendental pleasure, being engaged in devotional service, is certainly awarded the facilities of devotional service, and is never given just  mukti  [liberation].”
Mukti  means liberation from material contamination; when liberated, one does not have to take birth again in the material world. The impersonalists desire to merge into the spiritual existence, to end their individual existence, but according to  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam ,  mukti  is only the beginning of one’s becoming situated in his normal condition. The normal condition of every living entity is to be engaged in the devotional service of the Lord. From the statement of the  Ādi Purāṇa  it appears that a devotee is satisfied simply with being engaged in devotional service. He does not aspire for any liberation from material conditional life. In other words, anyone who is engaged in devotional service is not in the material condition of life, although he may appear so.
Recitation of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  is the desire-tree of Vedic wisdom.  Veda  itself means the aggregate of knowledge. And whatever knowledge is required for human society is perfectly presented in the  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam . There are different branches of knowledge in the Vedic writings, including sociology, politics, medicine and military art. All these and other branches of knowledge are perfectly described in the  Vedas . So, as far as spiritual knowledge is concerned, that is also perfectly described there, and  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  is considered to be