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Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 11.5.22

Manvantara· The Manus and right duty

Peaceful Worship Through Meditation and Sense Control

“People in Satya-yuga are peaceful, nonenvious, friendly to every creature and steady in all situations. They worship the Supreme Personality by austere meditation and by internal and external sense control.”

Śrīla Prabhupāda · Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.5.22, translation

What the purport teaches

  • People in Satya-yuga are peaceful, free from envy and friendly to every creature. They remain steady in all situations.
  • They worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead through austere meditation and control of both the mind and the external senses.
  • The Supreme Lord appears as a four-armed brahmacārī and personally introduces this process of meditation.

Try this today

In one difficult interaction today, restrain an unkind response and choose a peaceful, friendly one.

Ask yourself

How can friendliness toward every creature support my worship of the Supreme 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.

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