Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 10.60.45
Ūti· What drives us to actSeek Kṛṣṇa’s Sweetness Beyond Bodily Attraction
“A woman who fails to relish the fragrance of the honey of Your lotus feet becomes totally befooled, and thus she accepts as her husband or lover a living corpse covered with skin, whiskers, nails, head-hair and body-hair and filled with flesh, bones, blood, parasites, feces, mucus, bile and air.”
What the purport teaches
- Rukmiṇī firmly rejects material sense gratification based on the physical body. Its attractive covering conceals flesh, blood and other impure substances.
- Kṛṣṇa possesses an eternal body full of knowledge and bliss. The purport calls Him the real husband of all women because He can remove all fear.
- These strong statements may confuse those without practical experience of Kṛṣṇa’s beauty and purity. Those enlightened in Kṛṣṇa consciousness find them enlivening.
Try this today
Spend one quiet minute reflecting on Kṛṣṇa’s eternal body, full of knowledge and bliss.
Ask yourself
Am I giving more attention to bodily attraction than to Kṛṣṇa’s beauty and purity?
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.