Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 11.15.23
Mukti· LiberationDevotees Seek No Other Material Body
“When a perfect yogī desires to enter another’s body, he should meditate upon himself within the other body, and then, giving up his own gross body, he should enter the other’s body through the pathways of air, as easily as a bee leaves one flower and flies into another.”
What the purport teaches
- The perfection called para-kāya-praveśanam allows a perfected yogī to enter another person’s body. The subtle body travels through pathways of air, like a bee moving between flowers.
- Admiration for another person’s extraordinary material body can create the desire to experience life within it. This mystic perfection provides that opportunity.
- Pure devotees meditate on the spiritual form of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and are not attracted to any material body. They remain transcendental and satisfied on the platform of eternal life.
Try this today
If you catch yourself wishing for someone else’s appearance today, pause and spend a moment remembering the Lord’s spiritual form.
Ask yourself
When I admire another person’s body, can I turn my attention toward the Lord’s spiritual form instead?
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.