56 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 3, Ch. 2

gri uddhavah uvaca—Sri Uddhava said; krsna-dyumani—the Krsna sun;

nimloce—having set; girnesu—being swallowed; ajagarena—by the great

snake; ha—in the past; kim—what; nu—else; nah—our; kusalam—welfare:

briiyam—may | say; gata—gone away; Srisu-grhesu—in the house; aham—lI.
TRANSLATION

Sri Uddhava said: My dear Vidura, the sun of the world, Lord Krsna,
has set, and our house has now been swallowed by the great snake of time.
What can I say to you about our welfare?

PURPORT

The disappearance of the Krsna sun may be explained as follows,
according to the commentary of Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakur.
Vidura was struck with great sorrow when he got the hint of the
annihilation of the great Yadu dynasty as well as his own family, the
Kuru dynasty. Uddhava could understand the grief of Vidura, and
therefore he first of all wanted to sympathize with him by saying that
after the sunset everyone is in darkness. Since the entire world was
merged in the darkness of grief, neither Vidura nor Uddhava nor anyone
else could be happy. Uddhava was as much aggrieved as Vidura, and there
was nothing further to be said about their welfare.

The comparison of Krsna to the sun is very appropriate. As soon as the
sun sets, darkness automatically appears. But the darkness experienced by
the common man does not affect the sun itself either at the time of
sunrise or of sunset. Lord Krsna’s appearance and disappearance are
exactly like that of the sun. He appears and disappears in innumerable
universes, and as long as He is present in a particular universe there is all
transcendental light in that universe, but the universe from which He
passes away is put into darkness. His pastimes, however, are everlasting.
The Lord is always present in some universe, just as the sun is present
either in the eastern or the western hemisphere. The sun is always present
either in India or in America, but when the sun is present in India, the
American land is in darkness, and when the sun is present in America, the
Indian hemisphere is in darkness.

As the sun appears in the morning and gradually rises up to the
meridian and then again sets in one hemisphere while simultaneously
rising in the other, so Lord Krgna’s disappearance in one universe and the
beginning of His different pastimes in another take place simultaneously.
As soon as one pastime is finished here, it is manifested in another
universe. And thus His nitya-lila or eternal pastimes are going on without
