Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 7.6.27
Īśānukathā· The Lord and His devoteesUnderstand Confidential Knowledge Through a Pure Devotee
“Nārāyaṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the well-wisher and friend of all living entities, formerly explained this transcendental knowledge to the great saint Nārada. Such knowledge is extremely difficult to understand without the mercy of a saintly person like Nārada, but everyone who has taken shelter of Nārada’s disciplic succession can understand this confidential knowledge.”
What the purport teaches
- Nārāyaṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead and friend of all living entities, explained this transcendental knowledge to Nārada. Though extremely difficult to understand, it becomes easy when one takes shelter of a pure devotee.
- The confidential teaching is to abandon all varieties of religion and surrender to the Supreme Personality of Godhead. One can understand it through a bona fide spiritual master in Nārada’s disciplic succession.
- Understanding does not depend upon high parentage. Anyone who attains the spiritual platform by the spiritual master’s grace can understand this confidential knowledge.
Try this today
Reread the instruction to surrender to the Lord, and offer a brief prayer for help in accepting the spiritual master’s guidance.
Ask yourself
Do I place more trust in my background or in the mercy and guidance of a pure devotee?
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.