Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 11.25.1
Ūti· What drives us to actThe Modes Shape Conditioned Life
“The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: O best among men, please listen as I describe to you how the living entity attains a particular nature by association with individual material modes.”
What the purport teaches
- Lord Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, explains how goodness, passion and ignorance each shape a conditioned soul’s existence.
- The living entity is ultimately transcendental to the modes of nature, being part and parcel of Lord Kṛṣṇa.
- In conditioned life, the living entity manifests material qualities through association with the modes.
Try this today
Notice one material quality in yourself today, and remember that your ultimate nature is beyond the modes.
Ask yourself
How might distinguishing your spiritual nature from your material qualities change how you see yourself?
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.