Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 5.26.23
Ūti· What drives us to actEveryone Should Advance Toward Devotional Service
“The shameless husbands of lowborn śūdra women live exactly like animals, and therefore they have no good behavior, cleanliness or regulated life. After death, such persons are thrown into the hell called Pūyoda, where they are put into an ocean filled with pus, stool, urine, mucus, saliva and similar things. Śūdras who could not improve themselves fall into that ocean and are forced to eat those disgusting things.”
What the purport teaches
- The purport warns that fruitive activities and speculative thinking can waste the opportunity of human birth. Remaining in the cycle of birth and death brings the risk of suffering in Pūyoda.
- Everyone should improve, and no one should be prevented from becoming a brāhmaṇa or a Vaiṣṇava because of their present position. One who reaches the Vaiṣṇava platform automatically becomes a brāhmaṇa.
- Kṛṣṇa calls everyone to surrender to Him, and those who take shelter in Him can reach the supreme destination. Human life is meant for going back home, back to Godhead, through devotional service.
Try this today
Offer one sincere word of encouragement to someone seeking to grow in Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
Ask yourself
Do I encourage spiritual growth in everyone, regardless of their present position?
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.