Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 11.23.25
Mukti· LiberationUse Your Resources Before They Pass
“Discriminating persons are able to utilize their money, youth and strength to achieve perfection. But I have feverishly squandered these in the useless endeavor for further wealth. Now that I am an old man, what can I achieve?”
What the purport teaches
- Discriminating persons use money, youth and strength to achieve perfection. These resources need not be spent merely on gaining more wealth.
- The speaker regrets feverishly squandering these gifts in the useless pursuit of further wealth.
- Now old, he asks what he can achieve. His regret highlights the importance of using available resources wisely.
Try this today
Write down one way to redirect some of today’s time or strength from accumulating wealth toward spiritual perfection.
Ask yourself
Where am I spending my strength merely to gain more, rather than to pursue perfection?
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.