Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 11.10.10
Mukti· LiberationThe Lord’s Knowledge Cuts Material Bondage
“The subtle and gross material bodies are created by the material modes of nature, which expand from the potency of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Material existence occurs when the living entity falsely accepts the qualities of the gross and subtle bodies as being his own factual nature. This illusory state, however, can be destroyed by real knowledge.”
What the purport teaches
- The gross and subtle bodies are created by the material modes, which expand from the Supreme Personality of Godhead’s potency. Material existence begins when the soul accepts bodily qualities as its own nature.
- Only the Lord’s knowledge potency, vidyā, clearly reveals the nature of the living entity. This real knowledge can cut the cycle of ignorance and allow one to experience spiritual reality even in this lifetime.
- Conditioned souls reject the Lord’s perfect knowledge because they are inimical to Him. Accepting His knowledge can restore their original, eternal, blissful life in His direct association.
Try this today
Reread the translation today and identify one bodily or mental quality that you have been treating as your permanent self.
Ask yourself
Am I willing to let the Lord’s knowledge correct how I understand myself?
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.