Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 6.4.10
Manvantara· The Manus and right dutyPreserve What Your Dependents Need
“O pure-hearted ones, your father, Prācīnabarhi, and the Supreme Personality of Godhead have ordered you to generate population. Therefore how can you burn to ashes these trees and herbs, which are needed for the maintenance of your subjects and descendants?”
What the purport teaches
- Prācīnabarhi and the Supreme Personality of Godhead have ordered the Pracetās to generate population.
- Trees and herbs are needed to maintain their subjects and descendants.
- Soma asks how burning these sources of nourishment can fit with their responsibility. Generating population also requires concern for its maintenance.
Try this today
Take one concrete step today to avoid wasting plant food needed for nourishment.
Ask yourself
Are any of your actions undermining what those who depend on you need?
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.