So we should minimize anartha. Anartha means unwanted things we have habituated to use. They are called anartha. This body, this is also unwanted, but we have got it because we want it.
- anarthopaśamaṁ sākṣād
- bhakti-yogam adhokṣaje
- (SB 1.7.6)
So if you want to get rid, out of these clutches of this anartha, unwanted things, then bhakti-yogam adhokṣaje. Take to bhakti-yoga. Bhakti-yoga to whom? Adhokṣaje, to Kṛṣṇa.
- anarthopaśamaṁ sākṣād
- bhakti-yogam adhokṣaje
- lokasyājānato . . .
- (SB 1.7.6)
But people do not know it. They do not know how to reduce the necessities of life to the minimum. That we teach us when we take to bhakti-yoga. And Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is there. Bhakti-yoga.
Then Vyāsadeva, after compiling this book, he educated his son, Śukadeva Gosvāmī, about this Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, and he first spoke in the assembly at the time of death of Mahārāja Parīkṣit, seven days before his death. He first spoke this Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, and in that meeting Sūta Gosvāmī was present. So he also learned Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam from him. In those days there was no necessity of noting down or writing. Simply once heard, everyone remembered. The memory was so sharp. All the Vedic literatures, there was no need of printing. One or two book maybe handwritten, but there was no printing press, neither there was necessity of printing books. Nowadays people have lost their memory; therefore printed books are required. Otherwise, there is no necessity.