Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 4.21.51
Mukti· LiberationGrace Reveals Life’s Devotional Destination
“The citizens continued: Today you have opened our eyes and revealed how to cross to the other side of the ocean of darkness. By our past deeds and by the arrangement of superior authority, we are entangled in a network of fruitive activities and have lost sight of the destination of life; thus we have been wandering within the universe.”
What the purport teaches
- Our actions bring us into contact with the modes of material nature. By superior arrangement, we receive different bodies in which to experience the results.
- Having lost sight of life’s destination, living entities wander throughout the universe in higher and lower forms of life. The citizens acknowledged that Pṛthu Mahārāja had opened their eyes.
- By the grace of the spiritual master and the Supreme Personality of Godhead, we receive the clue to devotional life. This is where progressive success in life begins.
Try this today
Recall one teaching that directed you toward devotional life, and take one small step to apply it today.
Ask yourself
How has spiritual guidance helped me see devotional service as life’s destination?
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.