Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 10.25.23
Poṣaṇa· The Lord's protectionSeven Days of Loving Absorption
“Lord Kṛṣṇa, forgetting hunger and thirst and putting aside all considerations of personal pleasure, stood there holding up the hill for seven days as the people of Vraja gazed upon Him.”
What the purport teaches
- Kṛṣṇa held up the hill for seven days, putting aside hunger, thirst and personal pleasure. The residents gazed at Him with joy and amazement and chanted His praises.
- Absorbed in Kṛṣṇa’s beauty and sweetness, the residents felt no hunger, thirst or fatigue. Seeing their beautiful forms, Kṛṣṇa also forgot eating, drinking and sleeping.
- The Supreme Lord immediately dried up the falling water by His potency. Thus seven days of rain from the Sāṁvartaka clouds did not flood the district of Mathurā.
Try this today
Spend a minute praising Kṛṣṇa while remembering His beauty and His lifting of the hill.
Ask yourself
How does the residents’ joyful attention to Kṛṣṇa deepen your understanding of devotion?
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.