Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 9.24.58
Poṣaṇa· The Lord's protectionCreation Offers a Chance to Return Home
“The Supreme Personality of Godhead acts through His material energy in the creation, maintenance and annihilation of this cosmic manifestation just to deliver the living entity by His compassion and stop the living entity’s birth, death and duration of materialistic life. Thus He enables the living being to return home, back to Godhead.”
What the purport teaches
- Living entities are eternal parts of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, alike in spiritual quality but limited in quantity. Wanting to enjoy independently of Kṛṣṇa brings them into material struggle.
- Kṛṣṇa creates the material world out of compassion, giving living beings a chance to understand their real position. Human life offers the best opportunity to understand their relationship with Him.
- Real dharma is to surrender unto Kṛṣṇa. The purpose of creation is to restore Kṛṣṇa consciousness, stop repeated birth and death, and return home, back to Godhead.
Try this today
Spend a few minutes reading Bhagavad-gītā with the aim of understanding your relationship with Kṛṣṇa.
Ask yourself
Where do you notice the wish to enjoy independently of Kṛṣṇa in your own life?
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.