Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 10.82.42
Āśraya· The supreme shelterMeeting and Separation Depend on the Lord
“Do you perhaps think I’m ungrateful and thus hold Me in contempt? After all, it is the Supreme Lord who brings living beings together and then separates them.”
What the purport teaches
- Kṛṣṇa asked whether the gopīs considered Him ungrateful and therefore held Him in contempt.
- The purport reveals their pointed thoughts: they claimed not to have remembered Him and to have been happy without Him.
- Kṛṣṇa stated that the Supreme Lord brings living beings together and then separates them.
Try this today
Reflect briefly on one meeting or separation in your life in light of Kṛṣṇa’s statement.
Ask yourself
How does remembering the Supreme Lord’s role change your view of meeting and separation?
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.