Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 7.15.32-33
Mukti· LiberationKeep Kṛṣṇa Within Your Heart
“While continuously staring at the tip of the nose, a learned yogī practices the breathing exercises through the technical means known as pūraka, kumbhaka and recaka — controlling inhalation and exhalation and then stopping them both. In this way the yogī restricts his mind from material attachments and gives up all mental desires. As soon as the mind, being defeated by lusty desires, drifts toward feelings of sense gratification, the yogī should immediately bring it back and arrest it within the core of his heart.”
What the purport teaches
- The yogī controls the breath and repeatedly brings the wandering mind back within the heart. The purpose is to restrict material attachments and desires for sense gratification.
- When yoga practice is perfected, one sees the Supersoul within the heart. This is Paramātmā, a feature of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
- A devotee can become a first-class yogī by constantly keeping Kṛṣṇa within the heart. The highest yogī worships Him with great faith in transcendental loving service.
Try this today
Pause once today to think of Kṛṣṇa and offer Him your homage.
Ask yourself
When my mind wanders toward sense gratification, how can I bring my attention back to Kṛṣṇa?
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.