Text 11]
Remembrance of Lord Kṛṣṇa
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devotees of the Lord because they know perfectly well what is what. Their intelligence regarding the Lord is never disturbed. But those who are disturbed by the statements of the  asuras  are also condemned. That is what Uddhava meant in this verse.
TEXT 11
प्रदश्यतिसतपसामविरुपदशां नृणाम् । 
    आदायान्तरधाद्यस्तु स्वविम्बं लोकलोचनम् ॥११॥
pradarśyātapta-tapasām 
    avitṛpta-dṛśām nṛṇām 
    ādāyāntar adhād yas tu 
    sva-bimbam loka-locanam
pradarśya—by exhibiting; atapta—without undergoing; tapasām—penances; avitṛpta-dṛśām—without fulfillment of vision; nṛṇām—of persons; ādāya—taking; antaḥ—disappearance; adhāt—performed; yaḥ—who; tu—but; sva-bimbam—His own form; loka-locanam—public vision.
TRANSLATION
Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, who manifested His eternal form before the vision of all on the earth, performed His disappearance by removing His form from the sight of those who were unable to see Him [as He is] due to not executing required penance.
PURPORT
In this verse the word  avitṛpta-dṛśām  is most significant. The conditioned souls in the material world are all trying to satisfy their senses in various ways, but they have failed to do so because it is impossible to be satisfied by such efforts. The example of the fish on land is very appropriate. If one takes a fish from the water and puts it on the land, it cannot be made happy by any amount of offered pleasure. The spirit soul can be happy only in the association of the supreme living being, the Personality of Godhead, and nowhere else. The Lord, by His unlimited causeless mercy, has innumerable Vaikuṇṭha planets in the  brahmajyoti  sphere of the spiritual world, and in that transcendental world there is an unlimited arrangement for the unlimited pleasure of the living entities.
The Lord Himself comes to display His transcendental pastimes, typically represented at Vṛndāvana, Mathurā and Dvārakā. He appears just to attract the conditioned souls back to Godhead, back home to the