Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 10.22.26
Mukti· LiberationDevotion Purifies Desire
“The desire of those who fix their minds on Me does not lead to material desire for sense gratification, just as barleycorns burned by the sun and then cooked can no longer grow into new sprouts.”
What the purport teaches
- Fixing the mind and intelligence on Kṛṣṇa requires an advanced degree of devotion, for He is pure spiritual existence.
- Self-realization is not desirelessness but purified desire: wanting only Lord Kṛṣṇa’s pleasure. Such desire does not produce material lust, just as burned and cooked grains cannot sprout.
- The gopīs fixed their minds and their entire existence on Kṛṣṇa. Their conjugal desire therefore became the most exalted love of Godhead, never material lust.
Try this today
Write down one desire and a small way to redirect it toward pleasing Kṛṣṇa.
Ask yourself
How might one of my desires change if Kṛṣṇa’s pleasure became its purpose?
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.