Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 3.5.50
Āśraya· The supreme shelterThe Supreme Father Is Unborn and Unchanged
“You are the original personal founder of all the demigods and the orders of different gradations, yet You are the oldest and are unchanged. O Lord, You have no source or superior. You have impregnated the external energy with the semen of the total living entities, yet You are unborn.”
What the purport teaches
- The Lord is the original father of all living entities, but He has no father or superior. When He accepts a devotee as His father, He does so independently, out of causeless mercy.
- The Lord accompanies every living entity as the Supersoul and remains unchanged. Unlike the living entity, He does not undergo material changes of body.
- Material nature supplies the body, but the soul is originally part and parcel of the Supreme Lord. Every living entity, however great, remains an eternally subordinate servant of the supreme father.
Try this today
Offer a brief prayer acknowledging the Lord as your supreme father and yourself as His servant.
Ask yourself
How does remembering the Lord as my supreme father deepen my willingness to serve Him?
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.