Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 10.86.45
Āśraya· The supreme shelterCreation Compared to a Dream
“The Lord is like a sleeping person who creates a separate world in his imagination and then enters his own dream and sees himself within it.”
What the purport teaches
- A sleeping person creates an apparent world in imagination and then enters that dream. In somewhat the same way, the Lord manifests the cosmos.
- The creation is not illusory for the Lord, but it is for souls under the control of His Māyā potency.
- As her service to the Lord, Māyā leads conditioned souls to accept her temporary, insubstantial manifestations as real.
Try this today
Notice one temporary possession or situation today and remind yourself that it is not lasting.
Ask yourself
What temporary thing am I treating as though it will last?
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.