Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 10.49.29
Āśraya· The supreme shelterHonor the Supreme Lord's Inconceivable Power
“I offer my obeisances to Him, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who creates this universe by the inconceivable activity of His material energy and then distributes the various modes of nature by entering within the creation. From Him, the meaning of whose pastimes is unfathomable, come both the entangling cycle of birth and death and the process of deliverance from it.”
What the purport teaches
- Dhṛtarāṣṭra offers obeisances to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who creates the universe through His inconceivable material energy. Entering the creation, He distributes the modes of nature.
- Both the entangling cycle of birth and death and the process of deliverance come from Him. The meaning of His pastimes is unfathomable.
- The purport explains that Dhṛtarāṣṭra was not an ordinary person but an associate of the Supreme Lord, Kṛṣṇa. An ordinary person could not offer such a learned hymn.
Try this today
Read this prayer slowly today and offer your obeisances to Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Ask yourself
How does this prayer deepen my respect for Kṛṣṇa's power and the depth of His pastimes?
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.