SB 8.3.5 Let the darkness around become the impetus to seek the undiminishing light
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shamit bhagavatam 8.3.5 so here kajendra is now facing imminent destruction and as he is facing imminent destruction, he is thinking about how everything in the universe faces imminent destruction and how when everything is destroyed still there is the lord who resides transcendental to everything so kaalena panchatvam by the power of time itesha kuchnasho kuchnasho is everything so lokesha palesha sarva hetasho so all the worlds will be destroyed all the protectors of the worlds will be destroyed and in fact everything that is caused all material causes will also be destroyed that means actually nothing material survives the power of time the pradhan, the unmanifested matter may survive, but actually something that is unmanifested is not even noticed by us so we see things in terms of materially manifest causes and materially manifested effects, so everything of that will be destroyed and what will remain will be tamas tadasi gahanam labhiram so at that time there will be what gahanam labhiram tamas extremely dark, impenetrable darkness so there is one kind of darkness when we know that things are dark but other times there is so much darkness that we don’t even know that there is darkness, because we just don’t perceive anything at all at that time if a person had eyes and became blind the person understands that I am blind but if a person was always blind and never knew anyone who had eyes, so that person is not even aware of the blindness so tamas tadasi gahanam labhiram so terrible darkness that one doesn’t know anything about anything, but at such a time the supreme lord resides and he is enlightened so at that time in the transcendental world the supreme lord resides and not only resides, he shines over and above it all so when all in material existence turns dark then the supreme lord remains the ultimate light the unchanging, the undiminishing, the unwavering light in fact all the light of this world is in many ways misleading, in the sense that the light of this world often shows as the way to material things only and all material things are ultimately destructible so the only thing that is actually indestructible is spiritual and among the spiritual truths spiritual things, the topmost is the supreme lord and he is the basis of everything material and spiritual and it is by taking shelter of him that we can attain lasting peace and happiness so in one sense the destruction of material things is good because it forces us to realize the temporality and the futility of everything material and thereby turn to the supreme lord for help so when we recognize by the force of circumstances that things around me are being destroyed rather than lamenting the destruction we can use the destruction as an impetus to turn towards that which is indestructible and the highest among those indestructible things is the supreme lord and if the shutting down of the lights around us forces us to see a light that never shuts down, then the shutting down of those lights is actually supremely auspicious and Gajendra is recognizing his auspiciousness when he is saying that things are looking very dark and gloomy around me because I am about to die being caught in the vicious grip of this crocodile but there is a supreme darkness that will come when everything will be destroyed and even at that time you will be supreme illumination undiminishing and now I am taking shelter of that illumination right now thank you