Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 4.27.14
Nirodha· Winding upTime Plunders Every Facility for Sense Enjoyment
“Along with Caṇḍavega were as many female Gandharvīs as there were soldiers, and all of them repetitively plundered all the paraphernalia for sense enjoyment.”
What the purport teaches
- The days and nights together carry away our life span and everything we manufacture for sense gratification. This plundering begins at birth.
- Machines may make sense enjoyment more elaborate, but they too deteriorate under the force of time. Material facilities cannot stop life's duration from being spent.
- At death, the living entity enters another body and begins the cycle of material enjoyment again. The purport calls this repetition 'chewing the chewed': different methods produce the same sense pleasure.
Try this today
Notice one desire for a new material convenience, and pause before pursuing it to consider whether it offers anything beyond repeated sense enjoyment.
Ask yourself
Am I seeking lasting satisfaction by merely changing my methods of sense enjoyment?
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.