Text 8] Remembrance of Lord Krsna 57

ending. As the sunrise takes place once in twenty-four hours, similarly the
pastimes of Lord Krsna take place in a universe once in a daytime of
Brahma, the account of which is given in the Bhagavad-gita as
4,300,000,000 solar years. But wherever the Lord is present, all His
different pastimes as described in the revealed scriptures take place at
regular intervals.

As at sunset the snakes become powerful, thieves are encouraged,
ghosts become active, the lotus becomes disfigured and the cakravaki
laments, so with the disappearance of Lord Krsna, the atheists feel
enlivened, and the devotees become sorry.

TEXT 8

Qt aq stasd zeal Pracafy |
a deat a Ag a Aer

durbhago bata loko ’yarn
yadavo nitardm api

ye samvasanto na vidur
harim mind ivodupam

durbhagah—unfortunate; bata—certainly; lokah—universe; ayam—this;
yadavah—the Yadu dynasty; nitaram—more specifically; api—also; ye—
those; sarnvasantah—living together; na—did not; viduh—understand;
harim—the Personality of Godhead; minah—the fishes; iva udupam—like
the moon.

TRANSLATION

This universe with all its planets is most unfortunate. And even more
unfortunate are the members of the Yadu dynasty because they could not
identify Lord Hari as the Personality of Godhead, any more than the fish
could identify the moon.

PURPORT

Uddhava lamented for the unfortunate persons of the world who could
not recognize Lord Sri Krsna in spite of seeing all His transcendental godly
qualities. From the very beginning of His appearance within the prison
bars of King Kamsa up to His mausala-lila, although He exhibited His
potencies as the Personality of Godhead in the six opulences of wealth,
strength, fame, beauty, knowledge and renunciation, the foolish persons
of the world could not understand that He was the Supreme Lord. Foolish
persons might have thought Him an extraordinary historical figure because
