1232 Stimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 3, Ch. 29
in general, who, not knowing the goal of life, are sleeping in the darkness
of illusion. It is the general feeling of the Vaisnava, or devotee of the Lord,
that he should awaken them. Similarly, Devahiti is requesting her glorious
son to illuminate the lives of the conditioned souls so that their most
regrettable conditional life may be ended. The Lord is described herein as
yoga-bhaskara, the sun of the system of all yoga. Devahiti has already
requested her glorious son to describe bhakti-yoga, and the Lord has
described bhakti-yoga as the ultimate yoga system.

Bhakti-yoga is the sunlike illumination for delivering the conditioned
souls, whose general condition is described here. They have no eyes to see
their own interests. They do not know that the goal of life is not to increase
the material necessities of existence, because the body will not exist more
than a few years. The living beings are eternal, and they have their eternal
need. If one engages only in caring for the necessities of the body, not
caring for the eternal necessities of life, then he is a part of a civilization
whose advancement puts the living entities in the darkest region of igno-
rance. Sleeping in that darkest region, one does not get any refreshment,
but rather gradually becomes fatigued. He invents many processes to adjust
this fatigued condition, but he fails and thus remains confused. The only
path for mitigating his fatigue in the struggle for existence is the path of
devotional service, or the path of Krsna consciousness.

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maitreya uvaca
iti matur vacah slaksnam
pratinandya maha-munih
ababhase kuru-srestha
pritas tar karunarditah

maitreyah uvaca—Maitreya said; iti-thus; matuh—of His mother;
vacah—the words; slaksnam—gentle; pratinandya—welcoming; maha-
munih—the great sage Kapila; ababhase—spoke; kuru-srestha—O best
among the Kurus, Vidura; pritah—pleased; tam—to her; karuna—with
compassion; arditah— moved.
