Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 2.6.19
Sthāna· The universe in orderLasting Fearlessness Lies Beyond the Material World
“The Supreme Personality of Godhead is to be known as the supreme reservoir of all material opulences by the one fourth of His energy in which all the living entities exist. Deathlessness, fearlessness and freedom from the anxieties of old age and disease exist in the kingdom of God, which is beyond the three higher planetary systems and beyond the material coverings.”
What the purport teaches
- One fourth of the Lord’s sandhinī energy is displayed in the material world, and three fourths in the spiritual world. His energies—sandhinī, saṁvit and hlādinī—express existence, knowledge and bliss.
- Living entities are minute parts and parcels of the Lord. In liberation they can relish existence, knowledge and bliss in minute measure, but in conditioned life they can hardly appreciate pure happiness.
- Even the higher material planets cannot provide complete immortality or fearlessness. Freedom from death, old age and disease exists only in the spiritual kingdom beyond the material coverings.
Try this today
Write down one temporary comfort you seek, then note how it differs from the lasting fearlessness described in this verse.
Ask yourself
Am I mistaking a longer or more comfortable material life for lasting freedom from fear?
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.