Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 7.6.3
Ūti· What drives us to actUse Human Life to Revive Your Relationship
“Prahlāda Mahārāja continued: My dear friends born of demoniac families, the happiness perceived with reference to the sense objects by contact with the body can be obtained in any form of life, according to one’s past fruitive activities. Such happiness is automatically obtained without endeavor, just as we obtain distress.”
What the purport teaches
- Sense happiness can be obtained in any form of life according to one's past activities. Like distress, it comes without being invited.
- Material happiness and distress accompany a material body. Working very hard merely for happiness does not fulfill the special purpose of human life.
- The best use of human life is to revive our relationship with the Supreme Lord, Viṣṇu. This makes us qualified to return home, back to Godhead.
Try this today
Set aside five minutes you would otherwise spend pursuing an extra pleasure, and use them to remember Lord Viṣṇu.
Ask yourself
How much of my effort goes toward temporary pleasure rather than reviving my relationship with the Lord?
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.