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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 3, Ch. 25]
is the sun of spiritual knowledge. As the sun dissipates the darkness of the universe, so when the light of the Supreme Personality of Godhead comes down, it at once dissipates the darkness of  māyā . We have our eyes, but without the light of the sun our eyes are of no value. Similarly, without the light of the Supreme Lord, or without the divine grace of the spiritual master, one cannot see things as they are.
TEXT 10
अथ मे देव सम्भोहमपाकरुद्धं त्वमहसि । योऽवग्रहोऽहंममेतीत्येतसिन् योजितस्त्वया ॥१०॥
atha me deva sammoham apākraṣṭum tvam arhasi yo 'vagraho 'ham mametīty etasmin yojitas tvayā
atha—now; me—my; deva—O Lord; sammoham—delusion; apākraṣṭum—to dispel; tvam—You; arhasi—be pleased; yaḥ—which; avagrahaḥ—misconception; aham—I; mama—mine; iti—thus; iti—thus; etasmin—in this; yojitaḥ—engaged; tvayā—by You.
TRANSLATION
Now be pleased, my Lord, to dispel my great delusion. Due to my feeling of false ego, I have been engaged by Your  māyā  and have identified myself with the body and consequent bodily relations.
PURPORT
The false ego of identifying one's body as one's self and of claiming things possessed in relationship with this body is called  māyā . In  Bhagavad-gītā , Fifteenth Chapter, the Lord says, "I am sitting in everyone's heart, and from Me come everyone's remembrance and forgetfulness." Devahūti has stated that false identification of the body with the self and attachment for possessions in relation to the body are also under the direction of the Lord. Does this mean that the Lord discriminates by engaging one in His devotional service and another in sense gratification? If that were true, it would be an incongruity on the part of the Supreme Lord, but that is not the actual fact. As soon as the living entity forgets his real constitutional position of eternal servitorship to the Lord and wants instead to enjoy