Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 11.19.17
Mukti· LiberationLearn Impermanence and Hear Kṛṣṇa Directly
“From the four types of evidence — Vedic knowledge, direct experience, traditional wisdom and logical induction — one can understand the temporary, insubstantial situation of the material world, by which one becomes detached from the duality of this world.”
What the purport teaches
- Vedic knowledge, direct experience, traditional wisdom and logical induction reveal that material things cannot last. Recognizing this helps one develop vairāgya, or detachment.
- Material sense gratification is always unsteady and can collapse at any moment. No material living standard provides permanence.
- Systems of material evidence can also contradict one another about the highest truth. Rather than becoming bewildered by competing arguments, one can hear directly from Lord Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead and actual authority.
Try this today
Reread one instruction spoken by Kṛṣṇa in this passage, giving it your attention without turning to competing arguments.
Ask yourself
Am I seeking certainty in changing material arrangements or in the Lord’s instructions?
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.