Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 10.89.18
Mukti· LiberationGoodness Supports Life’s Final Success
“The Lord expands into three kinds of manifest beings — the Rākṣasas, the demons and the demigods — all of whom are created by the Lord’s material energy and conditioned by her modes. But among these three modes, it is the mode of goodness which is the means of attaining life’s final success.”
What the purport teaches
- Material nature creates different classes of beings under the direction of the Supreme Lord. They are conditioned by her modes.
- Those in ignorance are called Rākṣasas, those in passion are demons, and those in goodness are demigods.
- Those in the mode of goodness have a greater chance to reach the spiritual world. The verse presents goodness as a means toward life’s final success.
Try this today
Read the translation once slowly, keeping its final spiritual destination in mind.
Ask yourself
Do I see goodness as a means of returning to Godhead, rather than merely living comfortably?
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.