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SB 3.2.5-10

 

Their entire body was filled with excitement and streams of loving tears began to flow from their closed eyes. Seeing Uddhavaji immersed in this flow of love, Viduraji considered him fulfilled. || 5 ||

Some time later, when Uddhavaji descended from the abode of love of the Lord and gradually returned to the world, he wiped his eyes and, astonished by the memory of the Lord's pastimes, began to speak to Viduraji in this way. || 6 ||

Uddhavaji said - Viduraji! With the disappearance of the sun in the form of Sri Krishna, the python of time has devoured our homes, they have become devoid of prosperity; now what good news can I tell about them? || 7 ||

The human world is very unfortunate; among them, the Yadavas are utterly luckless, who, despite constantly living with Sri Krishna, oh! did not recognize him - just as fish living in the ocean of the nectar-filled moon could not recognize it. || 8 ||

The Yadavas were able to read the feelings of the mind, were very intelligent, and played in the same place with the Lord; yet all of them considered Sri Krishna, the refuge of the entire universe and the inner controller of all, as just an eminent Yadava. || 9 ||

However, the intelligence of the great souls devoted to the Lord was not confused by the contemptuous and slanderous words of these Yadavas deluded by the Lord's māyā (and its English translation: illusion) and those like Shishupala who harbored futile enmity towards them. || 10 ||

SB 3.15.49-50

 Text 49: O Lord, we pray that You let us be born in any hellish condition of life, just as long as our hearts and minds are always engaged ...