Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 10.47.18
Mukti· LiberationHearing Kṛṣṇa Dissolves Material Duality
“To hear about the pastimes that Kṛṣṇa regularly performs is nectar for the ears. For those who relish just a single drop of that nectar, even once, their dedication to material duality is ruined. Many such persons have suddenly given up their wretched homes and families and, themselves becoming wretched, traveled here to Vṛndāvana to wander about like birds, begging for their living.”
What the purport teaches
- Material duality rests on false divisions such as “This is mine, and that is yours.” In truth, everyone exists within the one Absolute Truth, Kṛṣṇa, to whom everything belongs.
- Hearing about Kṛṣṇa’s pastimes is nectar for the ears. Truly tasting that nectar spoils one’s dedication to the illusion of material duality.
- The purport gives an alternate reading in which hearing cleanses irreligious duality and makes one spiritually sober. One then gives up attachment to fleeting material relationships and gains essential discrimination, symbolized by swans.
Try this today
Read this verse aloud, then choose one possession and remember that it belongs to Kṛṣṇa.
Ask yourself
Where does the thought “mine and yours” shape my attachments?
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.