Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 4.24.65
Nirodha· Winding upTime Reveals the Lord’s Supreme Authority
“My dear Lord, Your absolute authority cannot be directly experienced, but one can guess by seeing the activities of the world that everything is being destroyed in due course of time. The force of time is very strong, and everything is being destroyed by something else — just as one animal is being eaten by another animal. Time scatters everything, exactly as the wind scatters clouds in the sky.”
What the purport teaches
- Nothing within this material world can be permanent, despite people’s efforts to make it so. Destruction continues according to the laws of nature.
- Kṛṣṇa declares that He is all-devouring death. In this form, the Lord takes away everything people accumulate in the material world.
- Although we do not directly see the Lord’s hand, we can recognize His control through the process of destruction. Time scatters everything as wind scatters clouds.
Try this today
Look at one possession today and reflect: “This cannot remain forever; the Supreme Lord’s authority is greater than my ability to preserve it.”
Ask yourself
What am I treating as permanent even though time will eventually take it away?
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.