Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 10.16.49
Āśraya· The supreme shelterReturn to Our Loving Service
“O almighty Lord, although You have no reason to become involved in material activity, still You act through Your eternal potency of time to arrange for the creation, maintenance and destruction of this universe. You do this by awakening the distinct functions of each of the modes of nature, which before the creation lie dormant. Simply by Your glance You perfectly execute all these activities of cosmic control in a sporting mood.”
What the purport teaches
- Through His eternal potency of time, the Lord awakens the material modes and arranges creation, maintenance and destruction. His playful activities are free from discrepancy.
- Kṛṣṇa desires all conditioned souls to live with Him in His eternal kingdom. Souls opposed to their loving relationship with Him enter the material world and its conditions of time.
- Fortunate souls remember their actual position as His loving servants. From within their hearts, the Lord encourages them to return to eternal, blissful life with Him.
Try this today
Take one quiet minute to pray for renewed remembrance of your loving service to Kṛṣṇa.
Ask yourself
How can the changes of material life remind me of my position as the Lord’s loving servant?
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.