Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 10.52.30
Manvantara· The Manus and right dutyDharma Guides All of Life
“[The Supreme Lord said:] O best of exalted brāhmaṇas, are your religious practices, sanctioned by senior authorities, proceeding without great difficulty? Is your mind always fully satisfied?”
What the purport teaches
- The Supreme Lord asked whether the brāhmaṇa’s religious practices, sanctioned by senior authorities, were proceeding without great difficulty. He also asked whether his mind was always fully satisfied.
- Dharma includes duty, higher principles and prescribed responsibilities. In Vedic society, these were understood within the need to obey God’s law.
- Religion was not a separate department of life but a guiding light for all activities. God’s hand was seen in everything, and irreligious life was considered demoniac.
Try this today
Choose one ordinary duty today and consider how to carry it out in keeping with the religious guidance you have received.
Ask yourself
Do you treat religious practice as one part of life or as guidance for all your activities?
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.