Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 11.9.20
Sarga· CreationRemember Your Real Friend, the Supreme Lord
“According to great sages, that which is the basis of the three modes of material nature and which manifests the variegated universe is called the sūtra or mahat-tattva. Indeed, this universe is resting within that mahat-tattva, and due to its potency the living entity undergoes material existence.”
What the purport teaches
- The mahat-tattva is the basis of the three modes and the varied universe. The universe rests within it, and through its potency the living entity undergoes material existence.
- The cosmic manifestation is real because it comes from the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Yet the material world is temporary and full of problems.
- Trying to become lord of this inferior creation separates the conditioned soul from his real friend, the Supreme Lord. Absorption in material sense gratification causes real knowledge to be lost.
Try this today
Pause before one choice aimed at sense gratification and remember the Supreme Lord as your real friend.
Ask yourself
Where does my desire to control or enjoy the material world make me forget my real friend?
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.