Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 11.22.35-36
Ūti· What drives us to actHear From Kṛṣṇa to Understand Liberation
“Śrī Uddhava said: O supreme master, the intelligence of those dedicated to fruitive activities is certainly deviated from You. Please explain to me how such persons accept superior and inferior bodies by their materialistic activities and then give up such bodies. O Govinda, this topic is very difficult for foolish persons to understand. Being cheated by illusion in this world, they generally do not become aware of these facts.”
What the purport teaches
- Śrī Uddhava asks how persons devoted to fruitive activities accept and give up higher and lower bodies. Material illusion generally keeps them unaware of this process.
- True intelligence includes understanding God and the consequences of forgetting one’s eternal relationship with Him. Philosophy produced within material illusion cannot free one from that illusion.
- Liberation comes through perfect knowledge from the spiritual platform. By faithfully hearing from Lord Kṛṣṇa and His authorized representatives, one can return home, back to Godhead.
Try this today
Read this passage aloud slowly, attending to it as instruction received from Kṛṣṇa and His authorized representatives.
Ask yourself
Am I willing to receive knowledge from the Lord rather than rely only on my own ideas?
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.