1010 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 3, Ch. 25
is the sun of spiritual knowledge. As the sun dissipates the darkness of the
universe, so when the light of the Supreme Personality of Godhead comes
down, it at once dissipates the darkness of maya. We have our eyes, but
without the light of the sun our eyes are of no value. Similarly, without
the light of the Supreme Lord, or without the divine grace of the spiritual
master, one cannot see things as they are.
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atha me deva sammoham
apakrastum tvam arhasi
yo ‘vagraho *harh mametity
etasmin yojitas tvaya

atha—now; me—my; deva—O Lord; sammoham—delusion; apakrastum—
to dispel; tvam—You; arhasi—be pleased; yah—which; avagrahah—miscon-
ception; aham—I; mama—mine; iti—thus; iti—thus; etasmin—in this; yojitah
—engaged; tuayd—by You.

TRANSLATION

Now be pleased, my Lord, to dispel my great delusion. Due to my
feeling of false ego, I have been engaged by Your maya and have identified
myself with the body and consequent bodily relations.

PURPORT

The false ego of identifying one’s body as one’s self and of claiming
things possessed in relationship with this body is called maya. In Bhagavad-
gita, Fifteenth Chapter, the Lord says, “I am sitting in everyone’s heart,
and from Me come everyone’s remembrance and forgetfulness.”? Devahiti
has stated that false identification of the body with the self and attachment
for possessions in relation to the body are also under the direction of the
Lord. Does this mean that the Lord discriminates by engaging one in His
devotional service and another in sense gratification? If that were true, it
would be an incongruity on the part of the Supreme Lord, but that is not
the actual fact. As soon as the living entity forgets his real constitutional
position of eternal servitorship to the Lord and wants instead to enjoy
