Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 10.70.26
Nirodha· Winding upMake Your Activities Offerings to Kṛṣṇa
“People in this world are always engaged in sinful activities and are thus bewildered about their real duty, which is to worship You according to Your commandments. This activity would truly bring them good fortune. Let us offer our obeisances unto the all-powerful Lord, who appears as time and suddenly cuts down one’s stubborn hope for a long life in this world.”
What the purport teaches
- Our real duty is to worship the Lord according to His commandments. Sinful activities bewilder people and lead them to suffering instead of good fortune.
- The Supreme Lord asks that whatever we do, eat, offer, give away or perform as austerity be offered to Him. Loving service to Him is our most essential activity.
- The all-powerful Lord appears as time and suddenly cuts down the hope for a long life. The kings therefore offer Him their obeisances.
Try this today
Before one task today, pause and offer that activity to Kṛṣṇa as loving service.
Ask yourself
Which ordinary activity could I consciously make an offering to Kṛṣṇa?
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.