Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 1.8.35
Mukti· LiberationThe Lord Revives Loving Devotional Service
“And yet others say that You appeared for the sake of rejuvenating the devotional service of hearing, remembering, worshiping and so on in order that the conditioned souls suffering from material pangs might take advantage and gain liberation.”
What the purport teaches
- The factual way of religion is to accept the Lord as the supreme authority and serve Him in spontaneous love. Rendering service to Him is the living being’s natural function.
- Through material desire and misunderstanding, living beings become servants of their senses. This ignorance entangles them in repeated birth and death and the miseries of material life.
- Out of causeless mercy, the Lord renews hearing, chanting, remembering and the other practices of devotional service. Adopting even one of these can free a conditioned soul from ignorance and material suffering.
Try this today
Spend five minutes reading this verse aloud and remembering the Lord’s mercy.
Ask yourself
Which practice of devotional service can help me turn from serving my senses to serving 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.