Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 3.1.23
Īśānukathā· The Lord and His devoteesTemples Help Us Remember Lord Kṛṣṇa
“There were also many other temples of various forms of the Supreme Personality of Godhead Viṣṇu, established by great sages and demigods. These temples were marked with the chief emblems of the Lord, and they reminded one always of the original Personality of Godhead, Lord Kṛṣṇa.”
What the purport teaches
- Great sages and demigods established temples of Viṣṇu to raise people to God consciousness. The Lord’s innumerable forms are nondifferent from one another.
- Lord Kṛṣṇa is the original Personality of Godhead. The wheel, or cakra, symbolizes His power to control the whole manifestation.
- The wheel on a high temple allows people to see the Lord’s emblem from far away and immediately remember Kṛṣṇa.
Try this today
Look at a Viṣṇu temple or a picture of one today, and take a moment to remember Lord Kṛṣṇa.
Ask yourself
Do I let the sight of a temple turn my attention toward Kṛṣṇa?
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.