Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 10.14.16
Āśraya· The supreme shelterKṛṣṇa Is the Supreme Controller of Illusion
“My dear Lord, in this incarnation You have proved that You are the supreme controller of Māyā. Although You are now within this universe, the whole universal creation is within Your transcendental body — a fact You demonstrated by exhibiting the universe within Your abdomen before Your mother, Yaśodā.”
What the purport teaches
- By His inconceivable spiritual potency, Kṛṣṇa can appear within the universe while all the universes remain within His body. Ordinary comparisons cannot account for this power.
- Kṛṣṇa showed the universal creation within His abdomen to mother Yaśodā. Brahmā affirms that these were the actual material universes, not something different from the creation outside.
- Kṛṣṇa is māyā-dhamana, the supreme controller of illusion. His supreme mystic potency can bewilder even illusion herself.
Try this today
Spend one minute reflecting on Kṛṣṇa being within the universe while the universe is within Him, and offer Him your respects.
Ask yourself
How does Kṛṣṇa’s control over illusion challenge my tendency to judge Him by ordinary limits?
Carry the question through the day, then answer it in your own words before sleep.
From Canto 10, chapter 14 onward, the translation and purports were completed by Śrīla Prabhupāda's disciples after his departure, and published by the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust.