Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 11.26.2
Mukti· LiberationSee Everything as the Lord’s Property
“A person fixed in transcendental knowledge is freed from conditioned life by giving up his false identification with the products of the material modes of nature. Seeing these products as simply illusion, he avoids entanglement with the modes of nature, although constantly among them. Because the modes of nature and their products are simply not real, he does not accept them.”
What the purport teaches
- The modes of nature appear as material bodies, places, families, countries, foods and other features of material life.
- A liberated soul sees everything as the Lord’s property. Although living within material energy, such a person remains free from entanglement.
- Māyā tempts one to take the Lord’s property for personal sense gratification. A Kṛṣṇa conscious person refuses this temptation and remains honest and pure.
Try this today
Choose one thing you use today and consciously regard it as the Lord’s property, not merely something for your enjoyment.
Ask yourself
What do I treat as mine to enjoy rather than as the Lord’s property?
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.