Shloka 10
Uddhava’s Remembrance of Kṛṣṇa and the Theology of the Lord’s Disappearance
देवस्य मायया स्पृष्टा ये चान्यदसदाश्रिता: । भ्राम्यते धीर्न तद्वाक्यैरात्मन्युप्तात्मनो हरौ ॥ १० ॥
devasya māyayā spṛṣṭā ye cānyad asad-āśritāḥ bhrāmyate dhīr na tad-vākyair ātmany uptātmano harau
The words of those bewildered by the Lord’s māyā and sheltering in the unreal can never divert the intelligence of one who is wholly surrendered to Hari.
Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Personality of Godhead according to all the evidences of the Vedas. He is accepted by all ācāryas, including Śrīpāda Śaṅkarācārya. But when He was present in the world, different classes of men accepted Him differently, and therefore their calculations of the Lord were also different. Generally, persons who had faith in the revealed scriptures accepted the Lord as He is, and all of them merged into great bereavement when the Lord disappeared from the world. In the First Canto we have already discussed the lamentation of Arjuna and Yudhiṣṭhira, to whom the disappearance of Lord Kṛṣṇa was almost intolerable up to the end of their lives.
FAQs
This verse says that when one is influenced by the Lord’s māyā and shelters the unreal, the intelligence becomes restless and confused.
In Canto 3, Uddhava instructs Vidura while recalling Krishna; he emphasizes that a devotee fixed in Hari is not shaken by the talk of those attached to temporary, unreal goals.
Keep the heart anchored in devotion—regular hearing/chanting and remembrance—so that anxiety-inducing opinions and materialistic persuasion don’t destabilize your values and choices.