‘The Son of the Chief of Vraja Bhagavan Krishna dwelling in His Own transcendental Abode Vrindavana is our only object of worship according to the example of the most glorious mode of devotion of the Gopis of Vraja; the purest and the most authentic source of knowledge of this Truth is the Shrimad Bhagavatam, the stainless Puranarn; the highest attainment in man’s life is unalloyed devotion (Prema) to the Lord - this is the doctrine disseminated by Shree Chaitanya Mahaprabhu Which is our only reverent guide and nothing else.’
 
Srimad Bhagavatam is the only unadulterated genuine Purana which is the source of Sri man Mahaprabhu’s Divine Religion contained with Sambandha (Relationship), Abhidheya (Means) and Prayojana (End).
 
Thakur Srila Bhakti Vinode who is the Eternally associated devotee of the Supreme Lord Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu showed who Srimad Bhagavatam is composed with the Trinity of Sambandha, Abhidheya and Prayojana and accordingly he compiled this Srimad Bhagavatam Arka Marichimala to us, fallenjivas. He named them after “Ray” as the material sun ray gives light and life to the jivas, Srimad Bhagavata Arka Ray will bestow unto us the Spiritual Light and Life and bless us with Divine Love.
 
In the 1st Ray Evidential Indications, 2nd Ray deals with Rising of the Spiritual Sun Bhagavatam, in 3rd Ray the Summary of Bhagavatam and 4th Ray deals with the Principles of Divine Nature, in 5th Ray the Principles of Divine Sweetness, the 6th Ray deals with Divine Sweetness, the 7th Ray explains the Principles of Individual Entity, in 8th Ray the Trait of bound jivas, the 9th Ray explains the Symptoms of fortunate souls, the l O” one shows the Glimpses of simultaneous distinction and identity, in the 11th Ray the Consideration of highest means, the 12th Ray explains the Devotional performance, the 13th Ray deals with Single minded devotion for Divine Name, the 14th Ray shows Anti devotional traits, the 15th Ray describes the Matters favourable for devotion, the 16th Ray explains the Dawning of Divine sentiments, the 17th Ray deals with Deliberation of the final goal, the 18th one with the Greatness of transcendental Divine Love, the 19th Ray shows the Uniqueness of Transcendental Divine Love and ultimately the 20th Ray ends with explaining the Bliss of Ultimate Divine Sweetness.
 
The Rays from 1 to 10 deals with the knowledge of Relationship, from 11 to 16 explains Means and from 17 to 20 the End, the highest summum bonum, the Krishna Prema. In this 3rd edition we added transliteration in English to those who do not know Sanskrit. It has been orderly designed.
 
Our God-brothers H.H. Tridandiswami Sripad Bhakti Pramod Janardan Maharaj and Sripad Lalit Krishna Brahmachari took keen interest to get this book printed in this present form and took great pains to go through the proofs. And we invoke the Supreme Lord to shower His Blessings on our younger god brother Sriman Pararneswar Brahrnacha.
 
ri despite his health did the composing of the English portion on his newly got computer and worked hard using his excellent talents.