Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 2.4.12
Sarga· CreationKnow the Complete Lord Through Bhakti-yoga
“Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who, for the creation of the material world, accepts the three modes of nature. He is the complete whole residing within the body of everyone, and His ways are inconceivable.”
What the purport teaches
- The material world manifests through goodness, passion and ignorance. For its creation, maintenance and destruction, the Supreme Lord accepts the forms of Brahmā, Viṣṇu and Śaṅkara.
- As Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu, the Lord enters every universe, and as Kṣīrodakaśāyī Viṣṇu, He enters every living being’s body. Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa is the complete whole and the origin of all viṣṇu-tattvas.
- Bhakti-yoga is the only process by which one becomes competent to know the Supreme Personality of Godhead. His ways remain inconceivable to empiric philosophers and mystic yogīs.
Try this today
Offer respectful obeisances to Śrī Kṛṣṇa today, remembering Him as the complete whole and asking to know Him through devotional service.
Ask yourself
How can remembering the Lord’s presence within everyone deepen your devotion to Him?
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.