Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 3.29.5
Poṣaṇa· The Lord's protectionDevotional Service Illuminates Life's True Goal
“My dear Lord, You are just like the sun, for You illuminate the darkness of the conditional life of the living entities. Because their eyes of knowledge are not open, they are sleeping eternally in that darkness without Your shelter, and therefore they are falsely engaged by the actions and reactions of their material activities, and they appear to be very fatigued.”
What the purport teaches
- Devahūti compassionately asks the Lord to illuminate the lives of conditioned souls. A devotee wishes to awaken those who do not know life's goal.
- Bhakti-yoga is like sunlight that delivers conditioned souls from darkness. The living being is eternal, so caring only for the temporary body neglects life's eternal needs.
- Attempts to relieve the fatigue of material struggle cannot succeed without addressing those eternal needs. Devotional service, or Kṛṣṇa consciousness, is the path that mitigates this fatigue.
Try this today
Set aside five minutes today to study this teaching on bhakti-yoga instead of attending only to bodily concerns.
Ask yourself
Am I giving attention to my eternal needs, or only to the needs of my body?
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.