Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 10.85.15
Ūti· What drives us to actDevotional Knowledge Remedies Material Suffering
“They are truly ignorant who, while imprisoned within the ceaseless flow of this world’s material qualities, fail to know You, the Supreme Soul of all that be, as their ultimate, sublime destination. Because of their ignorance, the entanglement of material work forces such souls to wander in the cycle of birth and death.”
What the purport teaches
- A soul who forgets his true identity as a servant of God becomes imprisoned in a succession of material bodies.
- Wrongly identifying with these bodies, the conditioned soul suffers the distress of karmic action and reaction and wanders through birth and death.
- Vasudeva compassionately laments for these suffering souls. Their ignorance can be remedied by knowledge of the principles of devotional service to Lord Kṛṣṇa.
Try this today
Before one task today, pause and remember your identity as a servant of Lord Kṛṣṇa.
Ask yourself
How would remembering that I am a servant of Kṛṣṇa change one choice today?
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.