Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 4.29.58
Ūti· What drives us to actActions Bear Results Beyond This Life
“The results of whatever a living entity does in this life are enjoyed in the next life.”
What the purport teaches
- The results of a living entity’s activities in this life are experienced in the next life. Their consequences extend beyond the present body.
- The King wants to understand how one body is linked with another. He asks how actions performed in this body can bring enjoyment or suffering in a later body.
- Each individual soul has an individual body, and one person does not experience another person’s results. The question is how the same living entity experiences those results after changing bodies.
Try this today
Before one deliberate action today, pause to consider that its consequences may extend beyond your present body.
Ask yourself
How might considering consequences beyond this life change the way I act today?
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.