Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 11.26.31
Mukti· LiberationServing Devotees Removes Inner Darkness
“Just as cold, fear and darkness are eradicated for one who has approached the sacrificial fire, so dullness, fear and ignorance are destroyed for one engaged in serving the devotees of the Lord.”
What the purport teaches
- Approaching a sacrificial fire removes cold, fear and darkness. Similarly, serving the Lord's devotees destroys dullness, fear and ignorance.
- Those absorbed in fruitive activities lack higher awareness of the Supreme Lord and the soul. They pursue sense gratification and ambitions more or less mechanically.
- Serving the lotus feet of the Lord removes such dullness, fear and ignorance. The fire comparison shows the benefit of drawing near through service.
Try this today
Offer one small, practical act of help to a devotee of the Lord today.
Ask yourself
Where has mechanical pursuit of my ambitions displaced awareness of the Lord and the soul?
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.