Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 10.10.17
Mukti· LiberationSaintly Association Cleanses the Heart
“Saintly persons may freely associate with those who are poverty-stricken, but not with those who are rich. A poverty-stricken man, by association with saintly persons, very soon becomes uninterested in material desires, and the dirty things within the core of his heart are cleansed away.”
What the purport teaches
- Saintly persons want to preach Kṛṣṇa consciousness to both the poor and the rich. The purport describes how the poor more readily welcome them and benefit from their presence.
- By receiving instructions from saintly persons, one becomes increasingly purified of material desires.
- Material life means forgetting Kṛṣṇa and increasing desires for sense gratification. Cleansing the heart is necessary to become free from the blazing fire of material existence.
Try this today
Spend five attentive minutes reading these instructions, and identify one material desire you can give less importance to today.
Ask yourself
What might be keeping me from welcoming instructions that could purify my heart?
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.