Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 4.28.60
Mukti· LiberationKṛṣṇa Is Our Eternal Well-Wisher
“Actually, you are not the daughter of Vidarbha, nor is this man, Malayadhvaja, your well-wishing husband. Nor were you the actual husband of Purañjanī. You were simply captivated in this body of nine gates.”
What the purport teaches
- Every living entity is a separate individual and part and parcel of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Family, community and national relationships arise through contact with material bodies.
- Like straws brought together and separated by a river's current, living entities meet and part under the waves of material nature. Bodily relationships do not establish their eternal identity.
- Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is the eternal friend and actual well-wisher of all living entities. His instructions help us become free from bodily engagement and return home, back to Godhead.
Try this today
Read one instruction from Bhagavad-gītā today, remembering that Kṛṣṇa gives His instructions as your eternal friend.
Ask yourself
How might remembering Kṛṣṇa as my eternal well-wisher change what I seek shelter in?
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.