Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 10.60.2
Āśraya· The supreme shelterGod’s Laws Guide Us Home
“The unborn Personality of Godhead, the supreme controller, who creates, maintains and then devours this universe simply as His play, took birth among the Yadus to preserve His own laws.”
What the purport teaches
- The unborn Personality of Godhead creates, maintains and devours the universe simply as His play. He appears among the Yadus to preserve His own laws.
- Religion is the law established by God. Like boundaries that keep water on its proper course, His laws guide human behavior.
- These laws also act as a bridge from material life to liberated, spiritual life. Those who follow them can peacefully progress back home, back to Godhead.
Try this today
Write one sentence describing how God’s laws guide people toward spiritual life.
Ask yourself
How does seeing God’s laws as a bridge change your attitude toward following them?
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.