Shloka 27
Yoga-māyā Appears as Durgā; Kaṁsa’s Repentance and the Demonic Policy of Persecuting Vaiṣṇavas
शोकहर्षभयद्वेषलोभमोहमदान्विता: । मिथो घ्नन्तं न पश्यन्ति भावैर्भावं पृथग्दृश: ॥ २७ ॥
śoka-harṣa-bhaya-dveṣa- lobha-moha-madānvitāḥ mitho ghnantaṁ na paśyanti bhāvair bhāvaṁ pṛthag-dṛśaḥ
Menschen mit trennender Sicht sind erfüllt von Kummer, Jubel, Furcht, Hass, Gier, Verblendung und Rausch des Ichs. Von diesen Regungen getrieben sehen sie einander als getrennt und erkennen nicht, wie sie sich gegenseitig verletzen.
Kṛṣṇa is the cause of all causes ( sarva-kāraṇa-kāraṇam ), but one who has no connection with Kṛṣṇa is disturbed by immediate causes and cannot restrain his vision of separation or differences. When an expert physician treats a patient, he tries to find the original cause of the disease and is not diverted by the symptoms of that original cause. Similarly, a devotee is never disturbed by reverses in life. Tat te ’nukampāṁ susamīkṣamāṇaḥ ( Bhāg. 10.14.8 ). A devotee understands that when he is in distress, this is due to his own past misdeeds, which are now accruing reactions, although by the grace of the Supreme Personality of Godhead these are only very slight. Karmāṇi nirdahati kintu ca bhakti-bhājām ( Brahma-saṁhitā 5.54 ). When a devotee under the protection of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is to suffer because of faults in his past deeds, he passes through only a little misery by the grace of the Lord. Although the disease of a devotee is due to mistakes committed sometime in the past, he agrees to suffer and tolerate such miseries, and he depends fully on the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Thus he is never affected by material conditions of lamentation, jubilation, fear and so on. A devotee never sees anything to be unconnected with the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Śrīla Madhvācārya, quoting from the Bhaviṣya Purāṇa, says:
FAQs
This verse explains that when people are driven by grief, joy, fear, hatred, greed, delusion, and pride, they lose clear perception and end up harming one another, mistaking shifting emotions for reality.
Śukadeva Gosvāmī speaks this verse while narrating the events of the Tenth Canto to King Parīkṣit, describing how material emotions cloud discernment and lead to mutual harm.
It advises cultivating awareness and spiritual clarity so that reactive emotions—fear, envy, greed, and pride—do not govern decisions, relationships, or conflicts.