Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 11.19.25
Mukti· LiberationPeace Through Pure Devotion
“When one’s peaceful consciousness, strengthened by the mode of goodness, is fixed on the Personality of Godhead, one achieves religiosity, knowledge, detachment and opulence.”
What the purport teaches
- A pure devotee becomes peaceful by desiring everything for the Lord’s service and nothing for himself. Strengthened by purified goodness, he achieves the supreme religious principle of directly serving the Lord.
- The pure devotee gains knowledge of the Lord’s form and his own spiritual body. He also gains detachment from material piety and sin, and the opulences of the spiritual world.
- Devotion mixed with fascination for mystic knowledge brings lesser results through material goodness. Pure devotion should be the goal, since even the best material rewards are insignificant beside the kingdom of God.
Try this today
Choose one action today and undertake it for the Lord’s service rather than for personal reward.
Ask yourself
Am I seeking something for myself, or seeking the opportunity to serve the Lord?
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.