Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 10.14.23
Āśraya· The supreme shelterKṛṣṇa’s Body Is Eternally Spiritual
“You are the one Supreme Soul, the primeval Supreme Personality, the Absolute Truth — self-manifested, endless and beginningless. You are eternal and infallible, perfect and complete, without any rival and free from all material designations. Your happiness can never be obstructed, nor have You any connection with material contamination. Indeed, You are the indestructible nectar of immortality.”
What the purport teaches
- Material bodies undergo birth, growth, maturity, reproduction, decline and destruction. Kṛṣṇa’s transcendental body is free from these material transformations.
- Kṛṣṇa is eternally complete, and His happiness is never obstructed. His body neither grows old nor dies, but remains full of spiritual youthful bliss.
- His creation of worlds and His expansions are spiritual expressions of His eternal bliss and glories. He remains the original Supreme Personality and Absolute Truth, with an eternal form of bliss and knowledge.
Try this today
Write down one quality of Kṛṣṇa’s spiritual body and reflect on it for one minute.
Ask yourself
Which quality of Kṛṣṇa’s eternal form most helps you distinguish Him from an ordinary embodied being?
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.