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Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 6.19.21

Manvantara· The Manus and right duty

Continue Devotional Service With Steadiness

“The chaste wife must perform such devotional service continuously for one year. After one year passes, she should fast on the full-moon day in the month of Kārttika [October-November].”

Śrīla Prabhupāda · Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.19.21, translation

What the purport teaches

  • The chaste wife should perform this devotional service continuously.
  • The prescribed period of service is one full year.
  • After that year, she should fast on the full-moon day in the month of Kārttika.

Try this today

Choose a time today for devotional service and keep that appointment.

Ask yourself

What can help me approach devotional service as a steady commitment?

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.

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