Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 11.23.27
Mukti· LiberationWealth Cannot Answer the Challenge of Death
“For one who is in the grips of death, what is the use of wealth or those who offer it, sense gratification or those who offer it, or, for that matter, any type of fruitive activity, which simply causes one to again take birth in the material world?”
What the purport teaches
- For someone in the grips of death, the speaker questions the usefulness of wealth and those who provide it.
- He asks the same question about sense gratification and those who offer it. Their value is challenged by the reality of death.
- Fruitive activity—action pursued for its material results—simply causes another birth in the material world.
Try this today
Spend one quiet minute considering whether your main goal today reaches beyond wealth and sense gratification.
Ask yourself
How would remembering death change what I consider worth pursuing today?
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.