160 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 8, Ch. 5

sah—He (the Supreme Personality of Godhead); nah—unto us;
dhasyati—will give; sam—the good fortune we need; sura-priyah—be-
cause He is naturally very dear to the devotees.

TRANSLATION

Now is the time to invoke the mode of goodness of the living en-
tities who have accepted material bodies. The mode of goodness is
meant to establish the Supreme Lord’s rule, which will maintain
the existence of the creation. Therefore, this is the opportune
moment to take shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Because He is naturally very kind and dear to the demigods, He
will certainly bestow good fortune upon us.

PURPORT

The material world is conducted by the three modes of nature, namely
sattva-guna, rajo-guna and tamo-guna. By rajo-guna everything
material is created, by sattva-guna everything material is maintained
properly, and by tamo-guna, when the creation is improperly situated,
everything is destroyed.

From this verse we can understand the situation of Kali-yuga, through
which we are now passing. Just before the beginning of Kali-yuga—or,
in other words, at the end of Dvapara-yuga—Lord Sri Krsna appeared
and left His instructions in the form of Bhagavad-gitd, in which He
asked all living entities to surrender unto Him. Since the beginning of
Kali-yuga, however, people have practically been unable to surrender to
the lotus feet of Krsna, and therefore, after some five thousand years,
Krsna came again as Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu just to teach the entire
world how to surrender unto Him, unto Sri Krsna, and thus be purified.

Surrendering unto the lotus feet of Krsna means achieving complete
purification. Krsna says in Bhagavad-gita (18.66):

sarva-dharman parityajya
mam ekam saranam vraja

aham tvam sarva-papebhyo
moksayisyami ma sucah
