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Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 11.29.27

Mukti· Liberation

Recitation Illuminates and Purifies

“He who loudly recites this supreme knowledge, which is the most lucid and purifying, becomes purified day by day, for he reveals Me to others with the lamp of transcendental knowledge.”

Śrīla Prabhupāda · Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.29.27, translation

What the purport teaches

  • This supreme knowledge is clear and purifying.
  • One who recites it loudly becomes purified day by day.
  • Such recitation reveals the Lord to others through the lamp of transcendental knowledge.

Try this today

Read this translation aloud clearly to someone willing to hear.

Ask yourself

Do I see recitation as an opportunity to reveal the Lord to others?

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.

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