CHAPTER ONE
The First Step in God Realization
INVOCATION
ॐ नमो भगवते वासुदेवाय ।
om namo bhagavate vāsudevāya
om —O my Lord;  namaḥ —my respectful obeisances unto You;  bhagavate —unto the Personality of Godhead;  vāsudevāya —unto Lord Kṛṣṇa, the son of Vasudeva.
TRANSLATION
O my Lord, the all-pervading Personality of Godhead, I offer my respectful obeisances unto You.
PURPORT
Vāsudevāya  means to Kṛṣṇa, the son of Vasudeva. As by chanting the name of Kṛṣṇa, Vāsudeva, one can achieve all the good results of charity, austerity and penances, so by the chanting of this  mantra ,  om namo bhagavate vāsudevāya , it is to be understood that the author or the speaker, or anyone of the readers of  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam , is offering respectful obeisances unto the Supreme Lord Kṛṣṇa, the reservoir of all pleasure. In the First Canto of  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam , the principles of creation are described, and as such, the First Canto can be called “Creation.”
Similarly, in the Second Canto, the post-creation cosmic manifestation is described. The different planetary systems are described in the Second Canto as different parts of the universal body of the Lord. For this reason, the Second Canto can be called “The Cosmic Manifestation.” There are ten chapters in the Second Canto, and in these ten chapters the purpose of  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  and the different symptoms of this purpose are narrated. In the First Chapter, the glories of chanting are described, and the process of meditation on the universal form of the Lord by the neophyte
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