Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 4.25.5
Mukti· LiberationHumbly Inquire About Life’s Ultimate Goal
“The King replied: O great soul, Nārada, my intelligence is entangled in fruitive activities; therefore I do not know the ultimate goal of life. Kindly instruct me in pure knowledge so that I can get out of the entanglement of fruitive activities.”
What the purport teaches
- The King admitted that fruitive activities had entangled his intelligence. He asked Nārada for pure knowledge that could free him.
- Both pious and impious activities can bind a person to repeated material bodies. Wealth, education and beauty do not remove the miseries of life.
- Inquiry into life’s real value begins when one recognizes this entanglement. The actual business of human life is to approach a bona fide spiritual master and ask how to become free.
Try this today
Write down one sincere question about freedom from fruitive activities to ask a bona fide spiritual master.
Ask yourself
What uncertainty about life’s ultimate goal can I honestly admit?
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.