Canto & Chapters
The Summum Bonum (90 Chapters)
Chapter 130v
Chapter 1
Chapter 230v
Chapter 2
Chapter 330v
Chapter 3
Chapter 430v
Chapter 4
Chapter 530v
Chapter 5
Chapter 630v
Chapter 6
Chapter 730v
Chapter 7
Chapter 830v
Chapter 8
Chapter 930v
Chapter 9
Chapter 1030v
Chapter 10
Chapter 1130v
Chapter 11
Chapter 1230v
Chapter 12
Chapter 1330v
Chapter 13
Chapter 1430v
Chapter 14
Chapter 1530v
Chapter 15
Chapter 1630v
Chapter 16
Chapter 1730v
Chapter 17
Chapter 1830v
Chapter 18
Chapter 1930v
Chapter 19
Chapter 2030v
Chapter 20
Chapter 2130v
Chapter 21
Chapter 2230v
Chapter 22
Chapter 2330v
Chapter 23
Chapter 2430v
Chapter 24
Chapter 2530v
Chapter 25
Chapter 2630v
Chapter 26
Chapter 2730v
Chapter 27
Chapter 2830v
Chapter 28
Chapter 2930v
Chapter 29
Chapter 3030v
Chapter 30
Chapter 3130v
Chapter 31
Chapter 3230v
Chapter 32
Chapter 3330v
Chapter 33
Chapter 3430v
Chapter 34
Chapter 3530v
Chapter 35
Chapter 3630v
Chapter 36
Chapter 3730v
Chapter 37
Chapter 3830v
Chapter 38
Chapter 3930v
Chapter 39
Chapter 4030v
Chapter 40
Chapter 4130v
Chapter 41
Chapter 4230v
Chapter 42
Chapter 4330v
Chapter 43
Chapter 4430v
Chapter 44
Chapter 4530v
Chapter 45
Chapter 4630v
Chapter 46
Chapter 4730v
Chapter 47
Chapter 4830v
Chapter 48
Chapter 4930v
Chapter 49
Chapter 5030v
Chapter 50
Chapter 5130v
Chapter 51
Chapter 5230v
Chapter 52
Chapter 5330v
Chapter 53
Chapter 5430v
Chapter 54
Chapter 5530v
Chapter 55
Chapter 5630v
Chapter 56
Chapter 5730v
Chapter 57
Chapter 5830v
Chapter 58
Chapter 5930v
Chapter 59
Chapter 6030v
Chapter 60
Chapter 6130v
Chapter 61
Chapter 6230v
Chapter 62
Chapter 6330v
Chapter 63
Chapter 6430v
Chapter 64
Chapter 6530v
Chapter 65
Chapter 6630v
Chapter 66
Chapter 6730v
Chapter 67
Chapter 6830v
Chapter 68
Chapter 6930v
Chapter 69
Chapter 7030v
Chapter 70
Chapter 7130v
Chapter 71
Chapter 7230v
Chapter 72
Chapter 7330v
Chapter 73
Chapter 7430v
Chapter 74
Chapter 7530v
Chapter 75
Chapter 7630v
Chapter 76
Chapter 7730v
Chapter 77
Chapter 7830v
Chapter 78
Chapter 7930v
Chapter 79
Chapter 8030v
Chapter 80
Chapter 8130v
Chapter 81
Chapter 8230v
Chapter 82
Chapter 8330v
Chapter 83
Chapter 8430v
Chapter 84
Chapter 8530v
Chapter 85
Chapter 8630v
Chapter 86
Chapter 8730v
Chapter 87
Chapter 8830v
Chapter 88
Chapter 8930v
Chapter 89
Chapter 9030v
Chapter 90
Canto 10, Chapter 14
Chapter 14
Verse 4 (SB 10.14.4)
SB 10.14.4 • मूल श्लोक
श्रेय:सृतिं भक्तिमुदस्य ते विभो क्लिश्यन्ति ये केवलबोधलब्धये । तेषामसौ क्लेशल एव शिष्यते नान्यद् यथा स्थूलतुषावघातिनाम् ॥ ४ ॥
Transliteration
śreyaḥ-sṛtiṁ bhaktim udasya te vibho kliśyanti ye kevala-bodha-labdhaye teṣām asau kleśala eva śiṣyate nānyad yathā sthūla-tuṣāvaghātinām
Synonyms (Word-for-Word)
śreyaḥ — of supreme benefit; sṛtim — the path; bhaktim — devotional service; udasya — rejecting; te — they; vibho — O almighty Lord; kliśyanti — struggle; ye — who; kevala — exclusive; bodha — of knowledge; labdhaye — for the achievement; teṣām — for them; asau — this; kleśalaḥ — botheration; eva — merely; śiṣyate — remains; na — nothing; anyat — other; yathā — just as; sthūla-tuṣa — empty husks; avaghātinām — for those who are beating.
Translation
“My dear Lord, devotional service unto You is the best path for self-realization. If someone gives up that path and engages in the cultivation of speculative knowledge, he will simply undergo a troublesome process and will not achieve his desired result. As a person who beats an empty husk of wheat cannot get grain, one who simply speculates cannot achieve self-realization. His only gain is trouble.”
Bhaktivedanta Purport
By Śrīla PrabhupādaLoving service to the Supreme Person is the natural and eternal function of every living entity. If a person renounces his own constitutional function and instead laboriously seeks so-called enlightenment through impersonal, speculative knowledge, his result is simply the trouble and bother that come from following an artificial process. A fool may beat an empty husk, not knowing that the grain has already been removed. Similarly foolish is the person who throws his mind again and again into the pursuit of knowledge without surrendering to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, for it is the Supreme Personality of Godhead who is the very substance and goal of knowledge, just as grain is the substance and goal of the entire agricultural effort. Vedic knowledge or, indeed, material science without the Personality of Godhead is exactly like an empty and useless husk of wheat.
One may argue that by practicing yoga or cultivating impersonal knowledge one can acquire prestige, wealth, mystic powers or even impersonal liberation. But these so-called gains are actually useless, because they do not situate the living being in his constitutional position of loving service to the Supreme Lord. Therefore such results, being superfluous to the living being’s essential nature, are impermanent. As stated in the Nṛsiṁha Purāṇa, patreṣu puṣpeṣu phaleṣu toyeṣv akrīta-labhyeṣu vadaiva satsu/ bhaktyā su-labhye puruṣe purāṇe muktyai kim arthaṁ kriyate prayatnaḥ: “Since the primeval Personality of Godhead is easily attained by offering Him such things as leaves, flowers, fruits and water, which are all found without difficulty, why does one need to endeavor for liberation separately?”
Although the process of devotional service to Lord Kṛṣṇa is very simple, it is extremely difficult for stubborn conditioned souls to completely humble themselves before the Supreme Personality of Godhead and absorb themselves twenty-four hours a day in His loving service. The mood of loving service is anathema to belligerent conditioned souls determined to defy God and enjoy. When such stubborn conditioned souls attempt to bypass surrendering to God through proud attempts at philosophical speculation, austerity, and yoga, they are turned back to the material platform by the powerful laws of God and violently merged into the heaving ocean of insignificance called the material world.