Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 6.19.17
Manvantara· The Manus and right dutyEstablish Family Relationships Spiritually
“Accepting her husband as the representative of the Supreme Person, a wife should worship him with unalloyed devotion by offering him prasāda. The husband, being very pleased with his wife, should engage himself in the affairs of his family.”
What the purport teaches
- The relationship between husband and wife should be established spiritually.
- The wife should accept her husband as the representative of the Supreme Person and worship him with unalloyed devotion by offering prasāda.
- The husband, pleased with his wife, should engage himself in the affairs of the family.
Try this today
If you are married, share prasāda with your spouse or attentively carry out one family responsibility.
Ask yourself
How can devotional service and care for family responsibilities support each other?
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.