At the critical hour

GOVINDA

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Śrīpāda Śańkarācārya

who preached Māyāvāda philosophy stressing on the impersonal feature of the Absolute,---did also at last recommend that one must take the shelter of the lotus feet of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa without any hope of gain from debating society. Indirectly Śrīpād Śańkarācārya admitted that what he had preached in the flowery grammatical interpretations of the Vedānta-sūtra cannot help one seriously at the time of death. At the critical hour of death one must recite the name of Govinda as is the recommendation of all great transcendentalists.


Śukadeva Gosvāmī had long stated the same truth that at the end one must remember Nārāyaṇa and that is the essence of all spiritual activities. In pursuance of this eternal truth Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam was heard by the emperor Parīkṣit, and it was recited by equally able recitor Śukadeva Gosvāmī. And both the speaker and the receiver of the messages of Bhāgavatam, were duly delivered by the same one medium.

This commentary by ACBSP can be read in the first english edition of Srimad Bhagavatam, printed in 1962.