Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 4.19.8
Poṣaṇa· The Lord's protectionNature’s Provision Calls Us to Serve
“The flowing rivers supplied all kinds of tastes — sweet, pungent, sour, etc. — and very big trees supplied fruit and honey in abundance. The cows, having eaten sufficient green grass, supplied profuse quantities of milk, curd, clarified butter and similar other necessities.”
What the purport teaches
- Unpolluted rivers help make the land fertile, and different seeds produce different tastes from the same earth. Kṛṣṇa declares that He is the original seed of all existences.
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead has made complete arrangements for life’s necessities. As His parts and parcels, our prime business is to satisfy Him.
- Forests have a purpose in supplying honey, fruits and flowers, and their abundance depends on yajña. The best sacrifice in this age is to spread the saṅkīrtana movement.
Try this today
Before eating today, pause to remember the Lord’s provision and your purpose of serving Him.
Ask yourself
How can the food I receive remind me of my duty to satisfy the 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.