Self-realized sage

Expressions researched:
"self-realized learned sage" |"self-realized sages" |"self-realized sage"

SB Canto 2

The presentation of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam by Śukadeva Gosvāmī recitation is the highest poetic contribution. He was a self-realized learned sage.

SB 2.3.13, Purport: A pure devotee of the Lord automatically develops all godly qualities, and some of the prominent features of those qualities are as follows: he is kind, peaceful, truthful, equable, faultless, magnanimous, mild, clean, nonpossessive, a well-wisher to all, satisfied, surrendered to Kṛṣṇa, without hankering, simple, fixed, self-controlled, a balanced eater, sane, mannerly, prideless, grave, sympathetic, friendly, poetic, expert and silent. Out of these twenty-six prominent features of a devotee, as described by Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja in his Caitanya-caritāmṛta, the qualification of being poetic is especially mentioned herein in relation to Śukadeva Gosvāmī. The presentation of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam by his recitation is the highest poetic contribution. He was a self-realized learned sage. In other words, he was a poet amongst the sages.

SB Cantos 10.14 to 12 (Translations Only)

The subtle form of the Lord within the body is experienced by self-realized sages in the last part of the vibration of the sacred syllable oṁ.

SB 11.27.23, Translation: The worshiper should meditate upon My subtle form—which is situated within the worshiper's own body, now purified by air and fire—as the source of all living entities. This form of the Lord is experienced by self-realized sages in the last part of the vibration of the sacred syllable oṁ.

SB 12.6.80, Translation: Kṛta, the disciple of Hiraṇyanābha, spoke twenty four saṁhitās (of the Sāma Veda) to his own disciples, and the remaining collections were passed down by the self-realized sage Āvantya.