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tive, then by His grace one can be delivered from the mire of ignorance. The spiritual master is therefore worshiped as one who delivers the disciple from the mire of ignorance with the light of the torch of knowledge. The word  pāragam  is very significant.  Pāragam  means one who can take the disciple to the other side. This side is conditioned life; the other side is the life of freedom. The spiritual master takes the disciple to the other side by opening his eyes with knowledge. We are suffering simply because of ignorance. By the instruction of the spiritual master, the darkness of ignorance is removed, and thus the disciple is enabled to go to the side of freedom. It is stated in  Bhagavad-gītā  that after many, many births one surrenders to the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Similarly, if, after many, many births, one is able to find a bona fide spiritual master and surrender to such a bona fide representative of Kṛṣṇa, he can be taken to the side of light.
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य आद्यो भगवान् पुंसामीश्वरो वै भवान् किल ।
लोकस्य तमसान्धस्य चक्षुः सूर्य इवोदितः ॥ ९ ॥
ya ādyo bhagavān puṁsām
tśvaro vai bhavān kila
lokasya tamasāndhasya
cakṣuḥ sūrya ivoditaḥ
yaḥ —He who;  ādyaḥ —the origin;  bhagavān —the Supreme Personality of Godhead;  puṁsām —of all living entities;  tśvaraḥ —the Lord;  vai —in fact;  bhavān — You;  kila —indeed;  lokasya —of the universe;  tamasā —by the darkness of ignorance;  andhasya —blinded;  cakṣuḥ —eye;  sūryaḥ —the sun;  iva —like;  uditaḥ —risen.
TRANSLATION
You are the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the origin and Supreme Lord of all living entities. You have arisen to disseminate the rays of the sun in order to dissipate the darkness of the ignorance of the universe.
PURPORT
Kapila Muni is accepted as an incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa. Here the word  ādya  means the origin of all living entities, and  puṁsām tśvara  means the Lord, or  tśvara , of the living entities ( tśvaraḥ paramaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ ). Kapila Muni is the direct expansion of Kṛṣṇa, who