Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 11.22.31
Āśraya· The supreme shelterKṛṣṇa Illuminates All Knowing
“Sight, visible form and the reflected image of the sun within the aperture of the eye all work together to reveal one another. But the original sun standing in the sky is self-manifested. Similarly, the Supreme Soul, the original cause of all entities, who is thus separate from all of them, acts by the illumination of His own transcendental experience as the ultimate source of manifestation of all mutually manifesting objects.”
What the purport teaches
- The senses, sense objects and controlling deities function interdependently. Sight and visible form, for example, depend on light to reveal one another.
- Like the self-luminous sun that enables sight, the Supreme Personality of Godhead enables all exchanges of knowledge. He remains distinct from the material relationships He supports.
- Kṛṣṇa is eternally omniscient through His own transcendental potency, so no one can teach Him anything. Still, He humbly accepts our prayers offered in Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
Try this today
Offer a short prayer to Kṛṣṇa, remembering that He already knows your heart yet kindly accepts your words.
Ask yourself
How does knowing that Kṛṣṇa already knows everything change the way I pray?
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.