Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 12.2.9
Ūti· What drives us to actSociety Depends on the Supreme Lord
“Harassed by famine and excessive taxes, people will resort to eating leaves, roots, flesh, wild honey, fruits, flowers and seeds. Struck by drought, they will become completely ruined.”
What the purport teaches
- Famine and excessive taxes will torment people, while drought will bring them to ruin.
- Like a leaf disconnected from a tree, human society disconnected from the Supreme Lord withers and disintegrates in violence and chaos.
- Computers and rockets cannot remove our dependence on the Supreme Lord. Without the rain He sends, we shall starve.
Try this today
Before eating today, pause to acknowledge your dependence on the Supreme Lord for food and rain.
Ask yourself
Do I recognize my dependence on the Supreme Lord for life's necessities?
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.