Text 28] The Renunciation of Kardama Muni 975

aho papacyamananam
niraye svair amangalaih

kalena bhiiyasaé niinam
prasidantiha devatah

aho—oh; papacyamananadm—with those being much afflicted; niraye—in
the hellish material entanglement; svaih—their own; amangalaih—by mis-
deeds; kdlena bhiiyasa—after a long time; ninam—indeed; prasidanti—they
are pleased; iha—in this world; devatah—the demigods.

TRANSLATION

Kardama Muni said: Oh, after a long time the demigods of this universe
have become pleased with the suffering souls who are in material entangle -
ment because of their own misdeeds.

PURPORT

This material world is a place for suffering, which is due to the misdeeds
of the inhabitants, the conditioned souls themselves. The sufferings are
not extraneously imposed upon them; rather, they create their own suffer-
ing by their own acts. In the forest, fire takes place automatically. It is not
that someone has to go there and set a fire, but because of friction among
various trees, fire occurs automatically. When there is too much heat from
the forest fire of this material world, the demigods, including Brahma
himself, being harassed, approach the Supreme Lord, the Supreme Person-
ality of Godhead, and appeal to Him to alleviate the condition. Then the
Supreme Personality of Godhead descends. In other words, when the
demigods become distressed by the sufferings of the conditioned souls,
they approach the Lord to remedy the suffering, and the Personality of
Godhead descends. When the Lord descends, all the demigods become
enlivened. Therefore Kardama Muni said, “After many, many years of
human suffering all the demigods are now satisfied because Kapiladeva,
the incarnation of Godhead, has appeared.”

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