Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 11.20.32-33
Mukti· LiberationLoving Service Contains All Spiritual Benefits
“Everything that can be achieved by fruitive activities, penance, knowledge, detachment, mystic yoga, charity, religious duties and all other means of perfecting life is easily achieved by My devotee through loving service unto Me. If somehow or other My devotee desires promotion to heaven, liberation, or residence in My abode, he easily achieves such benedictions.”
What the purport teaches
- Everything gained through fruitive activities, penance, knowledge, detachment and other auspicious processes is easily achieved through loving service to Lord Kṛṣṇa.
- Pure devotees desire only the Lord’s service, yet they may seek a benediction to help that service. The Lord can also easily fulfill lingering desires for heaven or freedom from bodily distress.
- Whatever their stage of advancement or present desires, devotees should dedicate their energy exclusively to the Lord’s service. Worship of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the path for all.
Try this today
Choose one blessing you hope for and consider how you could use it in the Lord’s service.
Ask yourself
Are the blessings I seek meant to support loving service, or mainly my own enjoyment?
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.