Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 7.15.63
Mukti· LiberationSee the Oneness of Cause and Effect
“When one understands that result and cause are one and that duality is ultimately unreal, like the idea that the threads of a cloth are different from the cloth itself, one reaches the conception of oneness called bhāvādvaita.”
What the purport teaches
- Bhāvādvaita means understanding the oneness of cause and result. It is a conception of oneness in existence.
- The verse uses cloth and its threads as an example. The cloth is not a separate substance from the threads that constitute it.
- Regarding cause and result as ultimately separate is described as unreal. Seeing their oneness is called bhāvādvaita.
Try this today
Look closely at a piece of cloth and consider how the cloth and its threads illustrate the verse's teaching.
Ask yourself
How does the example of cloth and threads help me understand cause and result?
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.