Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 10.9.13-14
Āśraya· The supreme shelterThe Unlimited Lord Accepts Loving Service
“The Supreme Personality of Godhead has no beginning and no end, no exterior and no interior, no front and no rear. In other words, He is all-pervading. Because He is not under the influence of the element of time, for Him there is no difference between past, present and future; He exists in His own transcendental form at all times. Being absolute, beyond relativity, He is free from distinctions between cause and effect, although He is the cause and effect of everything. That unmanifested person, who is beyond the perception of the senses, had now appeared as a human child, and mother Yaśodā, considering Him her own ordinary child, bound Him to the wooden mortar with a rope.”
What the purport teaches
- Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is unlimited and all-pervading. He is not limited by space or by past, present and future.
- Kṛṣṇa cannot be measured, yet mother Yaśodā bound Him as her own child. This took place only on the platform of pure transcendental love.
- Kṛṣṇa cannot be measured or calculated by Vedic knowledge. He is available to devotees who act on the basis of loving service.
Try this today
Take one minute today to express your desire to serve Kṛṣṇa with love.
Ask yourself
Am I approaching Kṛṣṇa mainly through calculation or through a desire to serve Him?
Carry the question through the day, then answer it in your own words before sleep.
The study points, practice and question are short summaries drawn from Śrīla Prabhupāda's translation and purport. Read the full purport to go deeper.