558 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 1, Ch. 11
ence with the Lord, although they were never separated from the Lord by
spiritual contact. Just as the gopis at Vrndavana used to think of Krsna
while He was away from the village for cowherding engagements, so also
the citizens of Dvaraka were all immersed in thought of the Lord while He
was away from Dvaraka to attend the Battle of Kuruksetra. Some dis-
tinguished fiction writer in Bengal concluded that the Krsna of Vrndavana,
that of Mathura and that of Dvaraka were different personalities. Histori-
cally there is no truth in this conclusion. The Krsna of Kuruksetra and the
Krsna of Dvaraka are one and the same personality.

The citizens of Dvaraka were thus in a state of melancholy due to the
Lord’s absence from the transcendental city, as much as we are put in a
state of melancholy at night because of the absence of the sun. The sound
heralded by Lord Krsna was something like the heralding of the sunrise in
the morning. So all the citizens of Dvaraka awoke from a state of slumber
because of the sunrise of Krsna, and they all hastened towards Him just to
have an audience. The devotees of the Lord know no oneelse as protector.

This sound of the Lord is identical with the Lord, as we have tried to
explain by the nondual position of the Lord. The material existence of our
present status is full of fear. Out of the four problems of material existence,
namely the food problem, the shelter problem, the fear problem and the
mating problem, the fear problem gives us more trouble than the others.
We are always fearful due to our ignorance of the next problem. The
whole material existence is full of problems, and thus the fear problem is
always prominent. This is due to our association with the illusory energy
of the Lord, known as maya or external energy, yet all fear is vanished as
soon as there is the sound of the Lord represented by His holy name, as it
was sounded by Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu in the following sixteen
words: Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare, Hare Rama, Hare
Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare. We can take advantage of these sounds
and be free from all threatening problems of material existence.

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