पञ्चमः स्कन्धः · Chapter Overview
From The Śrīmad Bhāgavata Purāṇa, taught by Acharya T Krishnatrey. This lesson is free to read.
<pre data-block="statement">What this canto covers | The Fifth Canto tells of ṚṢABHADEVA — an avatāra and ideal king — and of Bharata, and gives the Purāṇa's cosmography of the worlds. Its jewel is Ṛṣabha's parting instruction to his hundred sons: the human body is not for chasing sense-pleasure that even animals enjoy, but for divine austerity that purifies the heart (5.5.1), attained by serving the great and shunning bad company (5.5.2, 5.5.4).</pre>