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Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 11.7.12

Mukti· Liberation

See Kṛṣṇa Everywhere and Wish Everyone Well

“One who is the kind well-wisher of all living beings, who is peaceful and firmly fixed in knowledge and realization, sees Me within all things. Such a person never again falls down into the cycle of birth and death.”

Śrīla Prabhupāda · Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.7.12, translation

What the purport teaches

  • The person described by Kṛṣṇa is a kind well-wisher of all living beings. Peacefulness accompanies this concern for others.
  • Such a person is firmly established in knowledge and realization. They see Kṛṣṇa within all things.
  • Kṛṣṇa declares that a person with this realized vision never again falls into the cycle of birth and death.

Try this today

Show kindness to one living being today while remembering Kṛṣṇa’s presence.

Ask yourself

How might remembering Kṛṣṇa’s presence help me become a more peaceful well-wisher?

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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