Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 6.9.48
Mukti· LiberationAsk for Pure Devotional Service
“O best of the intelligent demigods, although it is true that nothing is difficult for one to obtain when I am pleased with him, a pure devotee, whose mind is exclusively fixed upon Me, does not ask Me for anything but the opportunity to engage in devotional service.”
What the purport teaches
- Nothing is difficult to obtain when the Lord is pleased. Yet a pure devotee asks only for the opportunity to engage in devotional service.
- The demigods anxiously awaited the death of their enemy Vṛtrāsura. Their desire for material benefit showed that their devotion was not yet pure.
- The Lord wanted them to ask for unalloyed devotional service. This distinguishes pure devotion from devotion motivated by material gain.
Try this today
Offer one prayer asking only for an opportunity to render devotional service.
Ask yourself
Do I value the opportunity to serve the Lord more than receiving material benefits?
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.