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Explanation of Devotional Service
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animal species. Generally, people are attached to sense enjoyment and so aspire for life on the heavenly planets. Therefore, they engage themselves in charitable or other pious activities, but actually, as stated in  Bhagavad-gītā , one cannot get relief from the chain of birth and death even if he goes to the highest planet, Brahmaloka, because the influence of time is present everywhere within this material world. In the spiritual world, however, the time factor has no influence.
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लोकस्य मिथ्यामिमतेरचक्षुष-
श्रिं प्रसुप्तस्य तमस्यनाश्रये ।
श्रान्तस्य कर्मस्वनुविद्धया धिया
त्वमाविरासीः किल योगभास्करः ॥ ५ ॥
lokasya mithyābhimater acakṣuṣaś ciram prasuptasya tamasy anāśraye śrāntasya karmasu anuviddhayā dhiyā tvam āvirāsīḥ kila yoga-bhāskaraḥ
lokasya —of the living entities;  mithyā-abhimateḥ —deluded by false ego;  acakṣuṣaḥ —blind;  ciram —for a very long time;  prasuptasya —sleeping;  tamasi —in darkness;  anāśraye —without shelter;  śrāntasya —fatigued;  karmasu —to material activities;  anuviddhayā —attached;  dhiyā —with the intelligence;  tvam —You;  āvirāsīḥ —have appeared;  kila —indeed;  yoga —of the  yoga  system;  bhāskaraḥ —the sun.
TRANSLATION
My dear Lord, You are just like the sun, for You illuminate the darkness of the conditional life of the living entities. Because their eyes of knowledge are not open, they are sleeping eternally in that darkness without Your shelter, and therefore they are falsely engaged by the actions and reactions of their material activities, and they appear to be very fatigued.
PURPORT
It appears that Śrīmatī Devahūti, the glorious mother of Lord Kapiladeva, is very compassionate for the regrettable condition of people