Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 3.30.2
Nirodha· Winding upTime Destroys Material Achievements
“Whatever is produced by the materialist with great pain and labor for so-called happiness, the Supreme Personality, as the time factor, destroys, and for this reason the conditioned soul laments.”
What the purport teaches
- Time represents the Supreme Personality of Godhead and destroys material things. What people produce with great labor for happiness eventually becomes a cause of lamentation.
- Even powerful empires built with perseverance have been destroyed. Economic development cannot make its achievements permanent.
- The living entity is eternal and has an eternal engagement. Life in one body is only a flash in the eternal journey, not the whole of existence.
Try this today
Pause over one material goal today and remind yourself that both this body and its achievements are temporary.
Ask yourself
Am I treating temporary achievements as though they were the whole purpose of life?
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.