Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.25.9

ya ādyo bhagavān pumsām

īśvaro vai bhavān kila

lokasya tamasāndhasya

cakshuh sūrya ivoditah

SYNONYMS

yah — He who; ādyah — the origin; bhagavān — the Supreme Personality of Godhead; pumsām — of all living entities; īśvarah — the Lord; vai — in fact; bhavān — You; kila — indeed; lokasya — of the universe; tamasā — by the darkness of ignorance; andhasya — blinded; cakshuh — eye; sūryah — the sun; iva — like; uditah — 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.

PURPORT

Kapila Muni is accepted as an incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krishna. Here the word ādyah means "the origin of all living entities," and pumsām īśvarah means "the Lord (īśvara) of the living entities" (īśvarah paramah krishnah [Bs. 5.1]). Kapila Muni is the direct expansion of Krishna, 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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