Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 10.14.36
Ūti· What drives us to actDevotion Transforms Household Life
“My dear Lord Kṛṣṇa, until people become Your devotees, their material attachments and desires remain thieves, their homes remain prisons, and their affectionate feelings for their family members remain foot-shackles.”
What the purport teaches
- Without Kṛṣṇa consciousness, material attachments act as thieves, homes as prisons and family affection as shackles.
- The residents of Vṛndāvana engage ordinary activities, such as cooking and rearing children, intensely in loving service to Kṛṣṇa. Thus they live on the most exalted platform of liberated life.
- Engaging the family in the Lord’s loving service makes its maintenance part of spiritual duty. Pure service to the original Personality of Godhead, free from material desire and speculation, creates the atmosphere of Śrī Vṛndāvana-dhāma.
Try this today
Choose one household task today and perform it consciously as service to Kṛṣṇa rather than merely for personal satisfaction.
Ask yourself
How can one ordinary household responsibility become loving service to Kṛṣṇa?
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.