Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 11.20.16
Mukti· LiberationUse Passing Time for Eternal Benefit
“Knowing that one’s duration of life is being similarly cut down by the passing of days and nights, one should be shaken by fear. In this way, giving up all material attachment and desire, one understands the Supreme Lord and achieves perfect peace.”
What the purport teaches
- The passing days and nights steadily exhaust one's duration of life. Recognizing this should awaken urgency to give up futile material attachments.
- A devotee knows there is no permanent residence in the material world. Instead, he dedicates his working energy to eternal residence in the kingdom of God.
- Giving up material desire and understanding the Supreme Lord brings perfect peace. The devotee attains Kṛṣṇa's spiritual nature, beyond the modes of material nature.
Try this today
Use a few minutes normally spent pursuing a material sense pleasure for devotional service to Kṛṣṇa.
Ask yourself
How much of my energy is directed toward permanent spiritual benefit?
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.