Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 7.15.21
Ūti· What drives us to actContentment Protects Spiritual Advancement
“O King Yudhiṣṭhira, many persons with varied experience, many legal advisers, many learned scholars and many persons eligible to become presidents of learned assemblies fall down into hellish life because of not being satisfied with their positions.”
What the purport teaches
- Even learned and highly qualified people can fall into hellish life through dissatisfaction. Greed for material development frustrates spiritual advancement.
- One should not be poverty-stricken, but should be satisfied with the bare necessities of life. Such contentment is the best advice for a devotee’s spiritual advancement.
- Building temples is a spiritual activity when experienced devotees properly care for spreading Kṛṣṇa consciousness. The purpose must be to satisfy Kṛṣṇa.
Try this today
Set aside one unnecessary purchase today and practice being satisfied with what you already have.
Ask yourself
Where is wanting more weakening my satisfaction with what I 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.