Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 10.66.3
Ūti· What drives us to actPretending Does Not Make Someone Supreme
“Thus slow-witted King Pauṇḍraka sent a messenger to the inscrutable Lord Kṛṣṇa at Dvārakā. Pauṇḍraka was acting just like an unintelligent child whom other children are pretending is a king.”
What the purport teaches
- Pauṇḍraka sent his messenger to the inscrutable Lord Kṛṣṇa at Dvārakā.
- He acted like an unintelligent child whom other children were pretending was a king.
- Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura explains that Śukadeva Gosvāmī repeats the sending of the message because he is astonished at Pauṇḍraka’s extreme foolishness.
Try this today
Examine one belief about your own importance and ask whether it rests only on others’ approval.
Ask yourself
Am I treating others’ approval as proof of a claim that may not be true?
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.