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Sukadeva Goswami (IAST Śukadeva Goswāmī), also know as Sri Suka, Sukadev and Brahmarata. A character in a number of Puranic text belonging to various traditions, mainly Vaishnavism. He is believed to be a son of Vyasadeva. It also believed that Vedavyasa first wrote Bharata-Samhita which contained twenty-four thousand verses (slokas) and taught that to his son Sukadeva.[1] According to some sources he was born of the wife of Vyasa, however others argue that Vyasa's, "seed alone gives birth to his son Suka, whom Vyasa rears by himself, independent of all female influence."[2] Its also believed that Sukadeva Goswami surpassed the level of his fathers spiritual achievement as in the incident when following his son’s path Vyasa encounters a group of celestial bathing beauties.[3] Suka has purified to the degree, that ladies did not consider him to be of a distraction, but covered themselves when faced with his father. Suka was naked and young; Vyasa was aged and clothed.[4] He is sometimes portrayed naked to stress him transcending regular or expected social behavior.
Sukadeva is the key speaker of the Bhagavata Purana that has the first verse referencing to both the Brahma Sutras and the Gayatri of the Rig Veda. The language of the Purana is accepted to be closely resembling Vedic texts rather than other Puranas, thus its believed to be of early or Vedic times origins or was written to resemble Vedic texts.[5]It is believed that according to Bhagavatam he was an impersonalist or monist in the beginning (Bhag. P. 2.l.9 );[6] but later on he was attracted by the transcendental activities of the Personal God and thus became a devotee and one of the main teachers of Svayam bhagavan, Krishna.[6]
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