Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 10.78.6
Ūti· What drives us to actKṛṣṇa Is Everyone’s True Friend
“Then, O unintelligent one, I who am obliged to my friends will have repaid my debt to them by killing You, my enemy disguised as a relative, who are like a disease within my body.”
What the purport teaches
- Dantavakra claimed that killing Kṛṣṇa would repay his debt to his friends. Yet the ācāryas explain that ajña indicates that no one is more intelligent than Lord Kṛṣṇa.
- The word bandhu-rūpam indicates that Kṛṣṇa is everyone’s true friend. The word vyādhim indicates that He is the Supersoul within the heart, the object of meditation who removes mental distress.
- The ācāryas understand hatvā as jñātvā: by knowing Kṛṣṇa properly, one can actually liberate all of one’s friends.
Try this today
Spend one quiet minute remembering Kṛṣṇa within the heart as your true friend and the remover of mental distress.
Ask yourself
How might remembering Kṛṣṇa as everyone’s true friend change my concern for others?
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.