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Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 11.29.34

Mukti· Liberation

Offer Yourself Entirely in Service

“A person who gives up all fruitive activities and offers himself entirely unto Me, eagerly desiring to render service unto Me, achieves liberation from birth and death and is promoted to the status of sharing My own opulences.”

Śrīla Prabhupāda · Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.29.34, translation

What the purport teaches

  • The Lord describes a person who gives up all fruitive activities and offers himself entirely unto Him.
  • This surrender includes an eager desire to render service to the Lord.
  • Such a person achieves liberation from birth and death and becomes qualified to share the Lord’s opulences.

Try this today

Choose one small act of service to the Lord today and do it without seeking a personal reward.

Ask yourself

In what part of my day could I replace the desire for personal reward with eagerness to serve?

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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