Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 2.9.28
Āśraya· The supreme shelterThe Lord Is Master of All Energies
“O master of all energies, please tell me philosophically all about them. You play like a spider that covers itself by its own energy, and Your determination is infallible.”
What the purport teaches
- All creative energies and their agents emanate from the Lord, the one supreme source of all diversity. Brahmā creates, Viṣṇu maintains and Lord Śiva destroys.
- A spider produces, maintains and withdraws its web by its own power. Similarly, the Supreme Being creates, maintains and destroys the cosmic manifestations by His supreme will.
- By the Lord’s grace, a devotee like Brahmā, or one in his disciplic succession, can understand the almighty Personality of Godhead and His eternal transcendental pastimes.
Try this today
Offer a short prayer asking for the grace to understand the Lord as the supreme source of all energies.
Ask yourself
Do I seek the Lord’s grace as well as an intellectual understanding of His energies?
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.