564 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 1, Ch. 11

TRANSLATION

O lotus-eyed Lord, whenever You go away to Mathura, Vrndavana cr
Hastinapura to meet Your friends and relatives, every moment of Your
absence seems like a million years. O infallible one, at that time our eyes
become useless, as if bereft of sun.

PURPORT

We are all proud of our material senses for making experiments to
determine the existence of God. But we forget that our senses are not
absolute by themselves. They can only act under certain conditions. For
example, our eyes. As long as the sunshine is there, our eyes are useful to a
certain extent. But in the absence of sunshine, the eyes are useless.
Lord Sri Krsna, being the primeval Lord, the Supreme Truth, is compared
to the sun. Without Him all our knowledge is either false or partial. The
opposite of the sun is the darkness, and similarly the opposite of Krsna is
maya or illusion. The devotees of the Lord can see everything in true
perspective due to the light disseminated by Lord Krsna. By the grace of
the Lord the pure devotee cannot be in the darkness of ignorance. There-
fore, it is necessary that we must always be in the sight of Lord Krsna so
that we can see both ourselves and the Lord with His different energies. As
we cannot see anything in the absence of the sun, so also we cannot see
anything including our own self without the factual presence of the Lord.
Without Him all our knowledge is covered by illusion.

TEXT 10

we aa ara facifae cafasarrqen faa areata |

katham bayam natha cirosite tvayt
prasanna-drstaya khila tapasosanam
jivema te sundara-hasa-sobhitam
apasyamana vadanam manoharam
iti codirita vacah
prajanam bhakta-vatsalah
§mvano’nugraham drstaya
vitanvan pravisat puram
