Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 3.9.10
Ūti· What drives us to actDevotional Service Is Essential to Genuine Religion
“Such nondevotees engage their senses in very troublesome and extensive work, and they suffer insomnia at night because their intelligence constantly breaks their sleep with various mental speculations. They are frustrated in all their various plans by supernatural power. Even great sages, if they are against Your transcendental topics, must rotate in this material world.”
What the purport teaches
- Without a taste for devotional service, people remain absorbed in troublesome material work and restless plans. Even great thinkers must undergo the reactions of their work through repeated birth and death.
- The Supreme Lord is the leader of all living entities; no one is equal to or greater than Him. Genuine religion and philosophy must lead to devotional service to Him.
- Even sages who neglect devotional service remain subject to material existence. Those who reach the impersonal brahmajyoti without taking shelter in devotional service fall again into the material world.
Try this today
Set aside five minutes from your usual planning today to read about the Lord with the intention of serving Him.
Ask yourself
Are my daily plans helping me develop a taste for devotional service, or leaving no room for it?
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.