Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 12.6.32
Mukti· LiberationExclusive Love Completes the Search for Truth
“Those who desire to give up all that is not essentially real move systematically, by negative discrimination of the extraneous, to the supreme position of Lord Viṣṇu. Giving up petty materialism, they offer their love exclusively to the Absolute Truth within their hearts and embrace that highest truth in fixed meditation.”
What the purport teaches
- Negative discrimination systematically rejects what is superfluous, superficial and relative. Without Kṛṣṇa consciousness, merely rejecting such things leaves people bewildered and cynical.
- Perfect knowledge also requires understanding the essential spiritual reality: the status and abode of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This understanding comes through giving up petty materialism and developing exclusive love for the Lord.
- Exclusive love for the Lord is not narrow-minded or sectarian: serving Him automatically serves all living entities within Him. This highest devotional service is the science of Kṛṣṇa consciousness taught throughout Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.
Try this today
Set aside one petty material concern for five minutes and lovingly meditate on the Lord within your heart.
Ask yourself
Am I only rejecting what is nonessential, or also developing exclusive love for the 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.