Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 10.23.28
Manvantara· The Manus and right dutyReturning to Help at Kṛṣṇa’s Request
“You should thus return to the sacrificial arena, because your husbands, the learned brāhmaṇas, are householders and need your assistance to finish their respective sacrifices.”
What the purport teaches
- Kṛṣṇa instructed the ladies to return to the sacrificial arena.
- Their husbands were learned brāhmaṇas and householders. They needed their wives’ assistance.
- By returning and helping, the ladies would enable their husbands to finish their respective sacrifices.
Try this today
Offer one concrete piece of help with an unfinished household task today.
Ask yourself
Where is my assistance needed to help complete a shared responsibility?
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.