Śukadeva said: “ॐ.”
“Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya”
“Oṁ. Yes. A big yes. My dear Mahārāja Parīkṣita, what you are searching for...it is. Yes. it is.”
Namaḥ--No me.
“Before Him, there is no ‘me.’ I surrender myself.”
“To whom?”
“To Him, to Bhāgavan Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the son of Vāsudeva.”
In his moment of deepest spiritual hunger, Mahārāja Parīkṣita begged Śukadeva to reveal the truth to him and he does so in four words. These four words encapsule the meaning of the entire Śrīmad Bhāgavatam and so they are invoked at the very beginning of Śukadeva’s version.
Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya
ॐ नमो भगवते वासुदेवाय
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