Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 10.63.44
Āśraya· The supreme shelterTake Shelter in Pure Devotional Service
“Let us worship You, the Supreme Lord, to be freed from material life. You are the maintainer of the universe and the cause of its creation and demise. Equipoised and perfectly at peace, You are the true friend, Self and worshipable Lord. You are one without a second, the shelter of all the worlds and all souls.”
What the purport teaches
- The Supreme Lord maintains the universe and causes its creation and demise. He is the true friend and shelter of all worlds and souls.
- The Lord sets our proper intelligence into motion when we desire to know the truth about God and the soul. The highest liberation is pure love of Godhead, characterized by unalloyed devotional service.
- The Lord is perfectly objective and balanced, while other living beings have an incomplete grasp of reality. Those who surrender to Him become fully objective by taking shelter of His supreme consciousness.
Try this today
Offer a short prayer asking the Lord to guide your intelligence toward pure devotional service.
Ask yourself
Am I seeking the Lord’s shelter with a sincere desire to know Him and serve Him?
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.