Text 5] Explanation of Devotional Service 1231

animal species. Generally, people are attached to sense enjoyment and so
aspire for life on the heavenly planets. Therefore, they engage themselves
in charitable or other pious activities, but actually, as stated in Bhagavad-
gita, one cannot get relief from the chain of birth and death even if he goes
to the highest planet, Brahmaloka, because the influence of time is present
everywhere within this material world. In the spiritual world, however, the
time factor has no influence.

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lokasya mithyabhimater acaksusas
clram prasuptasya tamasy anasraye

Srantasya karmasv anuviddhayéa dhiya
tvam avirasih kila yoga-bhaskarah

lokasya—of the living entities; mithya-abhimateh—deluded by false ego;
acaksusah—blind; ciram—for a very long time; prasuptasya—sleeping;
tamasi—in_ darkness; an@sraye—without shelter; srantasya—fatigued;
karmasu—to material activities; anuviddhaya—attached; dhiya—with the
intelligence; tuam—You; avirasth—have appeared; kila—indeed; yoga—of the
yoga system; bhaskarah—the sun.

TRANSLATION

My dear Lord, You are just like the sun, for You illuminate the darkness
of the conditional life of the living entities. Because their eyes of knowledge
are not open, they are sleeping eternally in that darkness without Your
shelter, and therefore they are falsely engaged by the actions and reactions
of their material activities, and they appear to be very fatigued.

PURPORT

It appears that Srimati Devahiiti, the glorious mother of Lord
Kapiladeva, is very compassionate for the regrettable condition of people
