सर्व पुस्तके | Shrimad Bhagavatam | Canto 10: The Summum Bonum |CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Brahmā’s Prayers to Lord Kṛṣṇa

SB 10.14.25

आत्मानमेवात्मतयाविजानतां
तेनैव जातं निखिलं प्रपञ्चितम् ।
ज्ञानेन भूयोऽपि च तत् प्रलीयते
रज्ज्वामहेर्भोगभवाभवौ यथा ॥ २५ ॥

शब्दार्थ

ātmānam — Yourself; eva — indeed; ātmatayā — as the Supreme Soul; avijānatām — for those who do not understand; tena — by that; eva — alone; jātam — is generated; nikhilam — the entire; prapañcitam — material existence; jñānena — by knowledge; bhūyaḥ - — once again; ca — and; tat — that material existence; pralīyate — disappears; rajjvām — within a rope; aheḥ — of a snake; bhoga — of the body; bhava-abhavau — the apparent appearance and disappearance; yathā — just as.

भाषांतर

A person who mistakes a rope for a snake becomes fearful, but he then gives up his fear upon realizing that the so-called snake does not exist. Similarly, for those who fail to recognize You as the Supreme Soul of all souls, the expansive illusory material existence arises, but knowledge of You at once causes it to subside.

तात्पर्य

Those submerged in illusion see material existence as infinite, just as one who is submerged in water sees only water all around him. For example, material scientists and philosophers, submerged deep within the ocean of material illusion, imagine that material nature extends infinitely in all directions. In fact, the material creation is a finite ocean of ignorance in which foolish living entities, such as material scientists, are unceremoniously dunked by the order of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

To be trapped in a world in which all things are born and die is certainly a fearful experience. Anyone trapped in a dark place naturally becomes fearful. Since material life is always covered by the darkness of ignorance, every conditioned soul is fearful. The material nature is not ultimate reality, and thus analysis of matter can never provide answers to ultimate questions. This dark, snakelike existence called material life immediately disappears as soon as one opens his eyes to the bright light of Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

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