Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 11.13.6
Mukti· LiberationCultivate Goodness to Awaken Spiritual Knowledge
“Until one revives one’s direct knowledge of the spirit soul and drives away the illusory identification with the material body and mind caused by the three modes of nature, one must cultivate those things in the mode of goodness. By increasing the mode of goodness, one automatically can understand and practice religious principles, and by such practice transcendental knowledge is awakened.”
What the purport teaches
- One must cultivate goodness until direct knowledge of the spirit soul awakens and false identification with body and mind is driven away.
- Study scriptures that teach detachment, associate with those cultivating detachment, and use your energy for pious purposes. Chant the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra and meditate upon the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
- Increasing goodness establishes religious practice, from which spiritual knowledge arises. This knowledge reveals the eternal spirit soul and the Supreme Soul, Lord Kṛṣṇa, freeing one from material designations.
Try this today
Set aside a few quiet minutes today to chant the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra.
Ask yourself
Which daily habit could better support knowledge of my eternal spiritual identity?
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.