Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 10.85.13
Āśraya· The supreme shelterMaterial Contact Never Taints the Lord
“The modes of material nature — namely goodness, passion and ignorance — together with all their functions, become directly manifest within You, the Supreme Absolute Truth, by the arrangement of Your Yoga-māyā.”
What the purport teaches
- Goodness, passion and ignorance, together with their functions, manifest within the Supreme Absolute Truth by the arrangement of Yoga-māyā.
- The Lord's expansion into the products of the material modes does not mean that He is touched by those modes or subject to destruction.
- Yoga-māyā is always completely under His control. Thus the Lord is never tainted in the least by material contact.
Try this today
Read the translation once more, remembering that Yoga-māyā acts under the Lord's control.
Ask yourself
Do I sometimes imagine that the Lord is subject to the same material influences as I am?
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.