Text 11] Remembrance of Lord Krsna 61

devotees of the Lord because they know perfectly well what is what.
Their intelligence regarding the Lord is never disturbed. But those who are
disturbed by the statements of the asuras are also condemned. That is what
Uddhava meant in this verse.

TEXT 11

maManaTaMAeacat || TMNT
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pradarsyatapta-tapasam
avitrpta-drsam nrnam

adayantar adhad yas tu
sva-bimbam loka-locanam

pradarsya—by exhibiting; atapta—without undergoing; tapasam—
penances;avitrpta-drsam—without fulfillment of vision; nrnam—of persons;
adaya—taking;antah—disappearance ; adhat— performed; yah—who; tu—but;
sva-bimbam-— His own form; loka-locanam—public vision.

TRANSLATION

Lord Sri Krsna, who manifested His eternal form before the vision of all
on the earth, performed His disappearance by removing His form from the
sight of those who were unable to see Him [as He is] due to not executing
required penance.

PURPORT

In this verse the word avitrpta-drsam is most significant. The conditioned
souls in the material world are all trying to satisfy their senses in various
ways, but they have failed to do so because it is impossible to be satisfied
by such efforts. The example of the fish on land is very appropriate. If one
takes a fish from the water and puts it on the land, it cannot be made
happy by any amount of offered pleasure. The spirit soul can be happy
only in the association of the supreme living being, the Personality of
Godhead, and nowhere else. The Lord, by His unlimited causeless mercy,
has innumerable Vaikuntha planets in the brahmajyoti sphere of the
spiritual world, and in that transcendental world there is an unlimited
arrangement for the unlimited pleasure of the living entities.

The Lord Himself comes to display His transcendental pastimes,
typically represented at Vrndavana, Mathura and Dvaraka. He appears
just to attract the conditioned souls back to Godhead, back home to the
