Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 3.25.8
Poṣaṇa· The Lord's protectionSpiritual Guidance Opens Our Eyes
“Your Lordship is my only means of getting out of this darkest region of ignorance because You are my transcendental eye, which, by Your mercy only, I have attained after many, many births.”
What the purport teaches
- Devahūti accepted the Lord as her transcendental eye and her means of escaping ignorance. She understood that this opportunity had come by His mercy after many births.
- A bona fide spiritual master delivers the disciple from ignorance with the light of knowledge. His instructions open the disciple’s eyes and lead from conditioned life toward freedom.
- By finding and surrendering to a bona fide representative of Kṛṣṇa, one can be brought to the side of light. Such spiritual association is a great fortune.
Try this today
Read one instruction from Śrīla Prabhupāda’s purport here and write down the misunderstanding it helps remove.
Ask yourself
Am I willing to let genuine spiritual instruction correct my understanding?
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.