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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
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य आद्यो भगवान्पुंसामीश्वरो वै भवान्किल । लोकस्य तमसान्धस्य चक्षुः सूर्य इवोदितः ॥९॥
ya ādyo bhagavān puṁsām īśvaro vai bhavān kila lokasya tamasāndhasya cakṣuḥ sūrya ivoditaḥ
WORD BY WORD
yaḥ He who; ādyaḥ the origin; bhagavān the Supreme Personality of Godhead; puṁsām of all living entities; īśvaraḥ the Lord; vai in fact; bhavān You; kila indeed; lokasya of the universe; tamasā by the darkness of ignorance; andhasya blinded; cakṣuḥ eye; sūryaḥ the sun; iva like; uditaḥ risen;
TRANSLATION
| You are the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the origin and Supreme Lord of all living entities. You have arisen to disseminate the rays of the sun in order to dissipate the darkness of the ignorance of the universe.
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PURPORT
| Kapila Muni is accepted as an incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa. Here the word ādyaḥ means “the origin of all living entities,” and puṁsām īśvaraḥ means “the Lord (īśvara) of the living entities” (īśvaraḥ paramaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ). Kapila Muni is the direct expansion of Kṛṣṇa, who 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 māyā. 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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