Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 2.6.9
Sthāna· The universe in orderDeath Also Has Its Universal Place
“O Nārada, the evacuating outlet of the universal form of the Lord is the abode of the controlling deity of death, Mitra, and the evacuating hole and the rectum of the Lord is the place of envy, misfortune, death, hell, etc.”
What the purport teaches
- Brahmā addresses Nārada while describing the evacuating organs of the Lord’s universal form.
- The evacuating outlet is the abode of Mitra, the controlling deity of death.
- The evacuating hole and rectum are described as the place of envy, misfortune, death and hell.
Try this today
Reread the translation once, noting that even envy, misfortune and death have places in this description of the universal form.
Ask yourself
How does this description broaden your understanding of what the universal form includes?
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.