Epilogue
This chapter concludes by examining how the Bhāgavata figures into the intellectual history of India. As has been shown throughout this work, rather than being a naive, irrelevant book of fabled tales and irrational beliefs, the Bhāgavata provides a sophisticated alternate view of Vedānta to that which is presented by Śaṅkara and his followers, up to and including Vivekānanada. The Bhāgavata claims that Kṛṣṇa is endowed with unlimited potency (māyā), for which nothing is impossible or contradictory. It is through the transformation of Kṛṣṇa’s māyā that the categories of existence are said to arise, and never through a transformation of Kṛṣṇa himself.
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