Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 1.14.8
Nirodha· Winding upKṛṣṇa Never Quits His Transcendental Body
“Is He going to quit His earthly pastimes, as Devarṣi Nārada indicated? Has that time already arrived?”
What the purport teaches
- Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira wondered whether the time indicated by Devarṣi Nārada had arrived for the Lord to end His earthly pastimes.
- Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, has many equally powerful plenary expansions that perform different functions. As Śrī Kṛṣṇa, He exchanges transcendental relationships with His devotees.
- There is no difference between the Lord’s Self and His transcendental body. His disappearance is not like the death of an ordinary living being; He never quits His transcendental body.
Try this today
Write and reflect on this teaching: “Kṛṣṇa never quits His transcendental body.”
Ask yourself
Am I thinking of the Lord’s disappearance as though He were an ordinary living being?
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.