Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 1.10.22
Sarga· CreationScripture Revives Our Relationship With the Lord
“The Personality of Godhead, again desiring to give names and forms to His parts and parcels, the living entities, placed them under the guidance of material nature. By His own potency, material nature is empowered to re-create.”
What the purport teaches
- Living entities are parts and parcels of the Lord. Eternally liberated souls lovingly serve Him in His eternal abode, while conditioned souls forget their relationship with Him.
- Material nature works under the Lord’s control, repeatedly creating and dissolving the material world. Conditioned souls receive repeated opportunities to become free from the external energy.
- The Lord provides revealed scriptures to revive our consciousness of our relationship with Him. These teachings help us look beyond material names and forms and escape repeated birth and death.
Try this today
Set aside five minutes today to read the Bhagavad-gītā as guidance for remembering your relationship with the Lord.
Ask yourself
Which material name or identity tends to make me forget that I am part and parcel of the Lord?
Carry the question through the day, then answer it in your own words before sleep.
The study points, practice and question are short summaries drawn from Śrīla Prabhupāda's translation and purport. Read the full purport to go deeper.