Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 3.29.4
Āśraya· The supreme shelterTime Reaches Everywhere in the Material World
“Please also describe eternal time, which is a representation of Your form and by whose influence people in general engage in the performance of pious activities.”
What the purport teaches
- Eternal time is a representation of the Lord's form. It devours the effects of material activities and acts on the body from birth.
- Awareness of death leads some people to charitable and pious activities for a better future life. Yet a desire for heavenly enjoyment still keeps their hopes within the material world.
- Even reaching Brahmaloka does not free one from birth and death, because time acts everywhere in the material world. In the spiritual world, however, time has no influence.
Try this today
Pause for one minute today to reflect that even the highest material destination cannot free you from birth and death.
Ask yourself
How does awareness of passing time change what I consider worth pursuing?
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.