Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 3.20.35
Ūti· What drives us to actChoose Unending Spiritual Happiness
“Whosoever you may be, O beautiful girl, we are fortunate in being able to see you. While playing with a ball, you have agitated the minds of all onlookers.”
What the purport teaches
- The demons enjoyed watching the girl play with a ball. The purport explains that entertainment can become a means of cultivating subtle sexual enjoyment.
- So-called yogīs may encourage sense enjoyment while promising that a manufactured mantra will make someone God. The purport warns that such teachers are worldly enjoyers dressed as yogīs.
- Material enjoyment is limited, while spiritual happiness is unending. Like a patient accepting restraint to recover, one must give up entangling enjoyment to enter spiritual life.
Try this today
Set aside one entertainment today that feeds sexual desire, and spend a minute reflecting on unending spiritual happiness.
Ask yourself
Which entertainment leaves me more entangled in desire rather than spiritually satisfied?
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.