Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 10.14.27
Āśraya· The supreme shelterHear About Kṛṣṇa Rather Than Speculate
“Just see the foolishness of those ignorant persons who consider You to be some separated manifestation of illusion and who consider the self, which is actually You, to be something else, the material body. Such fools conclude that the supreme soul is to be searched for somewhere outside Your supreme personality.”
What the purport teaches
- Brahmā is amazed that people consider Kṛṣṇa’s supreme spiritual body material. The same ignorance leads them to mistake their own material bodies for the self.
- Such people seek spiritual reality beyond Kṛṣṇa’s supreme personality. Some wrongly consider Him one of many souls that together form an impersonal spiritual entity.
- Unwilling to hear from the Lord or His authorized representatives, they speculate about the Supreme. The result is confusion and ignorance rather than knowledge of Him.
Try this today
Reread one statement in this purport and write what it teaches, without adding an explanation of your own.
Ask yourself
When learning about Kṛṣṇa, how can you distinguish attentive hearing from your own unsupported speculation?
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.