Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 10.40.3
Āśraya· The supreme shelterPure Kṛṣṇa Consciousness Reveals the Lord
“The total material nature and these other elements of creation certainly cannot know You as You are, for they are manifested in the realm of dull matter. Since You are beyond the modes of nature, even Lord Brahmā, who is bound up in these modes, does not know Your true identity.”
What the purport teaches
- God is transcendental to material nature. The elements of dull matter cannot know Him as He is.
- Unless we transcend the limited consciousness of material existence, we cannot know the Lord.
- Even Brahmā, the greatest living entity in the universe, cannot understand the Supreme unless he reaches pure Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
Try this today
Spend a quiet minute praying for pure Kṛṣṇa consciousness rather than relying only on your own understanding.
Ask yourself
How does Brahmā’s limitation encourage humility in your own effort to understand Kṛṣṇa?
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.