Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 2.5.6
Visarga· Brahmā's creationInquire Into the Source of Life's Varieties
“Whatever we can understand by the nomenclature, characteristics and features of a particular thing — superior, inferior or equal, eternal or temporary — is not created from any source other than that of Your Lordship, thou so great.”
What the purport teaches
- The manifested world contains 8,400,000 species of life. These created beings display many varieties, with some superior or inferior to others.
- Human beings are considered superior in human society, yet humans also differ in their qualities. The purport mentions good, bad and equal varieties.
- Nārada took for granted that all these beings had no source of generation other than Brahmājī. He therefore wanted to learn about them from his father.
Try this today
Notice three different kinds of living beings today and recall Nārada's inquiry into their origin.
Ask yourself
Does the variety of living beings awaken in me a desire to understand their source?
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.