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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 3, Ch. 29]
in general, who, not knowing the goal of life, are sleeping in the darkness of illusion. It is the general feeling of the Vaiṣṇava, or devotee of the Lord, that he should awaken them. Similarly, Devahūti is requesting her glorious son to illuminate the lives of the conditioned souls so that their most regrettable conditional life may be ended. The Lord is described herein as  yoga-bhāskara , the sun of the system of all  yoga . Devahūti has already requested her glorious son to describe  bhakti-yoga , and the Lord has described  bhakti-yoga  as the ultimate  yoga  system.
Bhakti-yoga  is the sunlike illumination for delivering the conditioned souls, whose general condition is described here. They have no eyes to see their own interests. They do not know that the goal of life is not to increase the material necessities of existence, because the body will not exist more than a few years. The living beings are eternal, and they have their eternal need. If one engages only in caring for the necessities of the body, not caring for the eternal necessities of life, then he is a part of a civilization whose advancement puts the living entities in the darkest region of ignorance. Sleeping in that darkest region, one does not get any refreshment, but rather gradually becomes fatigued. He invents many processes to adjust this fatigued condition, but he fails and thus remains confused. The only path for mitigating his fatigue in the struggle for existence is the path of devotional service, or the path of Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
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मैत्रेय उपाय
इति मातुर्वचः श्रद्धां प्रतिनन्ध महाप्लनिः ।
आवमाये कुरुश्रेष्ठ प्रीतस्तां करुणार्दितः ॥ ६ ॥
maitreya uvāca  
 iti mātur vacaḥ ślakṣṇam  
 pratinandya mahā-muniḥ  
 ābabhāṣe kuru-śreṣṭha  
 prītas tām karuṇārditaḥ
maitreyaḥ uvāca —Maitreya said;  iti —thus;  mātuḥ —of His mother;  vacaḥ —the words;  ślakṣṇam —gentle;  pratinandya —welcoming;  mahā-muniḥ —the great sage Kapila;  ābabhāṣe —spoke;  kuru-śreṣṭha —O best among the Kurus, Vidura;  prītaḥ —pleased;  tām —to her;  karuṇā —with compassion;  arditaḥ —moved.