Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 10.60.38
Āśraya· The supreme shelterKṛṣṇa Is Life’s Final Aim
“You are the embodiment of all human goals and are Yourself the final aim of life. Desiring to attain You, O all-powerful Lord, intelligent persons abandon everything else. It is they who are worthy of Your association, not men and women absorbed in the pleasure and grief resulting from their mutual lust.”
What the purport teaches
- Kṛṣṇa embodies all human goals and is Himself the final aim of life. Intelligent people give up everything else out of a desire to attain Him.
- Those who abandon material conceptions of sense gratification and take exclusively to His loving service understand their real friend and companion: Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa.
- Fitness for the Lord’s association does not rest on worldly equality in wealth, birth or appearance. Those absorbed in mutual lust remain caught in its pleasure and grief.
Try this today
Set aside one optional pleasure today and use that time to reflect on Kṛṣṇa as your real friend and companion.
Ask yourself
Am I seeking Kṛṣṇa as my real friend and final goal?
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.