Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 2.10.8
Sarga· CreationThe Supreme Person Shelters Everyone
“The individual person possessing different instruments of senses is called the adhyātmic person, and the individual controlling deity of the senses is called adhidaivic. The embodiment seen on the eyeballs is called the adhibhautic person.”
What the purport teaches
- The person possessing the senses is called adhyātmic, and the controlling deity is called adhidaivic. The material body that distinguishes controller and controlled is called adhibhautic.
- Our senses depend on superior controlling deities; for example, sight depends on light and the sun. Every living entity is ultimately subject to Paramātmā, who places beings in different positions according to their fruitive activities.
- Bodies differ and depend on food, but the living beings within them are spiritual parts and parcels of the Supreme Being. Paramātmā is a manifestation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead Śrī Kṛṣṇa, and the Supreme Person is the shelter of all.
Try this today
Notice today how your sight depends on light, and pause to remember the Supreme Person as the shelter of both controller and controlled.
Ask yourself
What does your dependence on light for seeing teach you about your own independence?
Carry the question through the day, then answer it in your own words before sleep.
The study points, practice and question are short summaries drawn from Śrīla Prabhupāda's translation and purport. Read the full purport to go deeper.