Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 3.6.9
Sarga· CreationRemember the Lord Through Devotional Service
“The gigantic universal form is represented by three, ten and one in the sense that He is the body and the mind and the senses, He is the dynamic force for all movements by ten kinds of life energy, and He is the one heart where life energy is generated.”
What the purport teaches
- The body’s gross and subtle elements belong to the Lord’s inferior energy, while living entities belong to His superior energy. The senses carry out bodily activities through ten kinds of life air generated from the heart.
- The Lord sits in the heart with the individual soul and helps in remembering and forgetting. Through association with a devotee, one who remembers Him receives help to remember Him more and more.
- Devotional service, called buddhi-yoga, alone can lift the soul beyond material entanglement. The soul and Supersoul remain distinct: the soul experiences the fruits of action, while the Lord witnesses and helps.
Try this today
Speak with a devotee today about remembering the Lord, and take a quiet moment afterward to remember His presence in your heart.
Ask yourself
What choice today could help me remember the Lord rather than forget 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.