Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 10.49.19
Manvantara· The Manus and right dutyGood Advice Requires a Pure Heart
“If you act otherwise, however, people will condemn you in this world, and in the next life you will enter the darkness of hell. Remain equally disposed, therefore, toward Pāṇḍu’s sons and your own.”
What the purport teaches
- Akrūra warned that unjust conduct would bring condemnation in this world and the darkness of hell in the next. Dhṛtarāṣṭra should remain equally disposed toward Pāṇḍu’s sons and his own.
- Dhṛtarāṣṭra’s excessive attachment to his sons was the fatal flaw that caused his downfall. He received sound advice and even acknowledged it, but could not follow it.
- Clear, practical intelligence is possible when the mind and heart are pure. Merely recognizing good advice is not enough.
Try this today
Choose one piece of sound advice you have resisted and take one small step to follow it.
Ask yourself
What attachment keeps me from following advice I know is sound?
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.