Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 11.27.9
Mukti· LiberationWorship With Love and Without Duplicity
“A twice-born person should worship Me, his worshipable Lord, without duplicity, offering appropriate paraphernalia in loving devotion to My Deity form or to a form of Me appearing upon the ground, in fire, in the sun, in water or within the worshiper’s own heart.”
What the purport teaches
- A twice-born person should worship the Lord without duplicity. Loving devotion should accompany the worship.
- The worshiper should offer appropriate paraphernalia to the Lord.
- The Lord may be worshiped in His Deity form or in a form appearing upon the ground, in fire, in the sun, in water or within the worshiper’s heart.
Try this today
Before worship today, pause and sincerely renew your intention to serve the Lord without deception.
Ask yourself
Is there any gap between my outward worship and my inward intention to serve the Lord?
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.