Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 10.54.14
Mukti· LiberationTime Reveals and Imposes Destiny
“But still I never lament or rejoice, because I know this world is driven by time and fate.”
What the purport teaches
- Jarāsandha says he neither laments nor rejoices, knowing that the world is driven by time and fate.
- Time is a specific means by which the Supreme Lord controls this world. It means more than measuring days, weeks, months and years.
- Time also refers to the way things are being moved. Everyone's destiny is revealed and imposed through its movements.
Try this today
Pause over one change you cannot control today, and quietly acknowledge that time moves under the Supreme Lord's control.
Ask yourself
How could remembering the Lord's control through time soften your reaction to changing circumstances?
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.