Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 4.11.25
Āśraya· The supreme shelterKṛṣṇa’s Body Is Always Transcendental
“The Supreme Personality of Godhead creates this material world, maintains it, and annihilates it in due course of time, but because He is transcendental to such activities, He is never affected by ego in such action or by the modes of material nature.”
What the purport teaches
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead creates, maintains and annihilates the material world without becoming affected by His actions. He is never contaminated by the material modes of nature.
- The conditioned soul falsely identifies with the body received through karma. For Kṛṣṇa, however, there is no distinction between body and soul.
- Kṛṣṇa’s body is never material; it is eternal and spiritual. To regard Him as an ordinary human being is to misunderstand His transcendental nature.
Try this today
Read the translation again and reflect for one minute on how Kṛṣṇa acts without material entanglement.
Ask yourself
Do I understand Kṛṣṇa as transcendental, or do I imagine Him limited like a conditioned soul?
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.