Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 10.4.26
Mukti· LiberationSeek Freedom From Bodily Ignorance
“O great personality Kaṁsa, only by the influence of ignorance does one accept the material body and bodily ego. What you have said about this philosophy is correct. Persons in the bodily concept of life, lacking self-realization, differentiate in terms of “This is mine” and “This belongs to another.””
What the purport teaches
- Ignorance makes one accept the material body and bodily ego as the self. From this arise distinctions such as “This is mine” and “This belongs to another.”
- Nature’s laws work under the direction of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Within material conditioning, no one acts independently of those laws.
- Our main business is to leave conditioned life and become situated again in spiritual existence. Without full self-realization, ignorance continues.
Try this today
Write down one bodily label you use for yourself, then reflect that self-realization goes beyond that label.
Ask yourself
Which bodily label do I most often mistake for my whole identity?
Carry the question through the day, then answer it in your own words before sleep.
The study points, practice and question are short summaries drawn from Śrīla Prabhupāda's translation and purport. Read the full purport to go deeper.