Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 10.74.35
Ūti· What drives us to actKṛṣṇa Is Beyond Material Obligations
“How does one who follows no principles of the social and spiritual orders or of family ethics, who has been excluded from all religious duties, who behaves whimsically, and who has no good qualities — how does such a person deserve to be worshiped?”
What the purport teaches
- Kṛṣṇa does not belong to any caste and has no prescribed occupational duty. Whatever must be done on His behalf is carried out by His different energies.
- Śiśupāla indirectly praised Kṛṣṇa by saying that He is outside the jurisdiction of Vedic injunctions. This is true because He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
- Kṛṣṇa’s having no qualities means that He has no material qualities. As the Supreme Personality of Godhead, He acts independently of social and religious conventions.
Try this today
Read these points once more, remembering that Kṛṣṇa’s independence belongs to Him as the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Ask yourself
Do I try to measure Kṛṣṇa by the same material standards that apply to me?
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.