Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 9.14.23
Ūti· What drives us to actBeauty Accompanied by Good Conduct
“Purūravā replied: O beautiful one, your beauty is wonderful and your gestures are also wonderful. Indeed, you are attractive to all human society. Therefore, since you have come of your own accord from the heavenly planets, who on earth would not agree to serve a demigoddess such as you.”
What the purport teaches
- Purūravā praised Urvaśī’s wonderful beauty and gestures and readily agreed to serve her.
- Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that heavenly standards of eating, behavior and speech differ from those on earth. The inhabitants eat first-class food in goodness, prepared in clarified butter, rather than meat and eggs.
- The inhabitants of the heavenly planets are described as beautiful, well-behaved and long-living. Their conduct includes modesty rather than public nakedness.
Try this today
Choose one meal today without meat or eggs, reflecting on the purport’s emphasis on food in goodness.
Ask yourself
Do I value good behavior as much as outward beauty?
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.