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Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 11.15.25

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Heavenly Enjoyment Through Meditation

“The yogī who desires to enjoy in the pleasure gardens of the demigods should meditate on the purified mode of goodness, which is situated within Me, and then the heavenly women, generated from the mode of goodness, will approach him in airplanes.”

Śrīla Prabhupāda · Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.15.25, translation

What the purport teaches

  • This verse describes a yogī who desires to enjoy in the pleasure gardens of the demigods.
  • Kṛṣṇa directs such a yogī to meditate on the purified mode of goodness situated within Him.
  • As a result, heavenly women generated from the mode of goodness approach the yogī in airplanes.

Try this today

Reread the translation and identify the desire, the meditation and the result.

Ask yourself

What does this yogī’s chosen meditation reveal about his desire?

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.

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