Why Study the  Vedanta Sutra ?
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lording it over material Nature; or in other words, there is a continuous rivalry for satisfying the senses. And, driven by this consciousness of sense gratification, religiousness is performed. Pious activities or religious functions are performed with an aim generally for some material gain. If such material gain is obtainable in another way, then the so-called religiousness is neglected, as we can see in the modern human civilization. The economic desires being seemingly fulfilled in another way, nobody is interested in religion now. The church, mosque, or the temple is practically always a vacant place, and people are more interested in the factories, shops, and cinemas than in the religious places formerly erected by the forefathers of different paths of religiousness. This proves definitely that religiousness is performed for economic development, and economic development is needed for sense gratification. And where one is baffled in the matter of sense gratification, he takes to the cause of salvation in order to become one with the Supreme Whole. Therefore, all these stages are different examples of the same aim of life, namely sense gratification.
In the Vedas, the above-mentioned four activities are prescribed in a regulative way so that there may not be any undue competition for the purpose of sense gratification. But  Srimad Bhagwatam  is transcendental to all these sense gratifying activities of the material world. It is purely transcendental literature, understandable by a particular class of men known as devotees of the Lord, who are above the competitive field of sense gratification. In the material world there is keen competition between the animals, between men, communities, or even nations in this sense gratifying activity, but the devotees of the Lord are above this. Devotees have nothing to compete for with the materialists because they are on the path back to Godhead, where everything is eternal, full, blissful. Such transcendentalists are a hundred per cent non-envious, and therefore pure in heart. In the material world everyone is envious of everyone and therefore there is competition. But the transcendentalists or devotees of the Lord are not only freed from all material enviousness, but they are kind to everyone, endeavoring to establish  a competitionless society, with God in the center .
The socialist idea of society is artificially competitionless, because even in the socialistic state there is competition for the post of dictator. The fact is, therefore, that the state of sense gratification is the order of materialistic life, take it either from the Vedas or from the common human activities. As mentioned above, there are three divisions of the Vedas, namely the stage of fruitive activities for getting advancement to better planets like heaven, etc. And, above this, there are the activities of worshipping different demigods