Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 2.5.21
Sarga· CreationCreation Depends on the Personal Supreme Lord
“The Lord, who is the controller of all energies, thus creates, by His own potency, eternal time, the fate of all living entities, and their particular nature, for which they were created, and He again merges them independently.”
What the purport teaches
- Material creation appears and disappears repeatedly under the Lord’s control, like a cloud in the unlimited spiritual sky. Conditioned souls act within it according to their desires, but remain subordinate to Him.
- The Lord’s energies sustain the whole creation, yet He remains separate and complete. His unlimited impersonal expansions do not remove His eternal personal existence.
- At annihilation, creation merges into transcendental Nārāyaṇa and later emerges with the same categories of fate and individual nature. Living entities share His spiritual quality but differ from Him because they can be attracted to material creation.
Try this today
Before acting on one desire today, pause and acknowledge that you remain dependent on the Supreme Lord.
Ask yourself
What changes in my outlook when I remember that my freedom operates under the Lord’s control?
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.