Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 3.31.20
Mukti· LiberationRemember Your Eternal Relationship with Kṛṣṇa
“Therefore, my Lord, although I am living in a terrible condition, I do not wish to depart from my mother’s abdomen to fall again into the blind well of materialistic life. Your external energy, called deva-māyā, at once captures the newly born child, and immediately false identification, which is the beginning of the cycle of continual birth and death, begins.”
What the purport teaches
- Under māyā, the living entity forgets his relationship with the Supreme Lord and thinks, “I am this body.” This bodily identification entangles him in repeated birth and death.
- Real knowledge means understanding, “I am not this body. I am spirit soul, an eternal part and parcel of the Supreme Lord.” Renunciation means not accepting the body as the self.
- Although māyā is very difficult to overcome, surrender to the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa makes deliverance possible. Kṛṣṇa consciousness frees one from the false conception of bodily identity.
Try this today
Take one quiet minute to remember that you are spirit soul, and pray to Kṛṣṇa for help in surrendering to Him.
Ask yourself
When do I most easily forget that I am an eternal part and parcel of the Supreme Lord?
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.