tam upaśrutya ninadaṁ jagad-bhaya-bhayāvaham pratyudyayuḥ prajāḥ sarvā bhartṛ-darśana-lālasāḥ
Synonyms
tam—thereupon; upaśrutya—having offered; ninadam—presentation; jagat-bhaya—upto the sun; bhayāvaham—lamp; prati—like; udyayuḥ—being evaluated; prajāḥ—unto the self-sufficient; sarvāḥ—fully satisfied. Nijalabhena—by His own potenicies; bhartṛ—one who supplies incessantly; darśana—affection; lālasāḥ—cheerful faces; Prachur—said; Harsa—gladdened; Gadgadaya—ecstatic; Gira—speeches; Pitaram—unto the father; Sarva—all; Avitaram—the guardian; Iva—like; Arbhakah—wards.
Translation
The citizens arrived before the Lord with their respective presentation for the fully satisfied, self sufficient by His own potency and one who supplies incessantly for others. The presentation was compared with the lamp in the matter of worshipping the Sun. But they began to speak for receiving the Lord in ecstatic language just like the wards welcome the guardian and the father.
Purport
As already informed the citizens of Dwarka who lived at the time of Lord Krishna's presence there, were all liberated souls who descended there along with the Lord as entourage, all were very much anxious to have an audience of the Lord although they were never separated from the Lord by spiritual contact. Just like the Gopis at Vrindaban used to think of Krishna while He was away from the village for cowherding engagement, so also the citizens of Dwarka were all compact in thought of the Lord while He was away from Dwarka to attend the battlefield of Kurukshetra. Some distinguished fiction writer in Bengal concluded that the Krishna of Vrinadban, that of Mathura and that of Dwarka were different personalities. Historically there is no truth in the conclusion of the big fiction writer. The Krishna of Kurnkshetra and the Krishna of Dwarka is the same and one personality
The citizens of Dwarka was thus in a state of melancholy on account of the Lord's absence from the transcendental city as much as we are put in a state of morose at night on account of absence of the Sun. The sound heralded by Lord Krishna was something like heralding the sunrise in the morning. So all the citizens of Dwarka awoke from a state of slumber on account of the sun rise of Krishna and they all hastend towards Him just to have an audience of their protector. The devotees of the Lord know no body else as protector and as such they got back in life on the arrival-signal of the Lord represented by the sound of His conchshell.
This sound of Lord is identical with the Lord as we have tried to explain the non-dual position of the Lord. The material existence of our present status is full of fear. Out of the four problems of material existence namely the food problem, the shelter problem, the fear problem and the mating problem etc the fear problem gives us more trouble than the others. We are always fearful on account of our ignorance of the next problem. The whole material existence is full of problems and as such the fear problem is always prominent. This is due to our association of the illusory energy of the Lord known as Maya or external energy and the whole thing is vanished as soon as there is the sound of the Lord represented by His holy Name as it was sounded by Lord Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu in the following sixteen words namely :—
We can take advantage of these sounds and be free from all threatening problems of material existence.
The Supreme Lord Krishna is described herein as Atmarama. He is self-sufficient and there is no need for Him to seek happiness from anything beyond Himself. He is self sufficient because His very transcendental existence is all round bliss. He is eternally existent ; He is all cognisant and all blissful. Therefore, any presentation, however, valuable it may be has no necessity for Him. But still because He is well wisher for one and all, He accepts from every one everything which is offered to Him in pure devotional service. It is not that He is in want for such things because the things are themselves generated from His energy. The comparison is made herein that it is something like offering a lamp in the matter of worshipping the Sun god. Any thing firy and illuminating is but immanation from the energy of the Sun and yet for worshipping the Sungod there is necessary of offering Him a lamp. In the worshipment of the Sun there is some sort of demand by the worshiper but in the case of devotional service of the Lord there is no question of demand from either side. It is all signs of pure love and affection between the Lord and the devotee.
The Lord is the Supreme Father of all living beings and as such those who are conscious of this Vital relation with God they have the filial demand from the Father and the Father is pleased to supply the demands of such obedient sons without any idea of bargaining. The Lord is just like the Desire tree and from Him everyone can have every thing by the causeless mercy of the Lord. As the Supreme Father the Lord, however, deny to supply to a pure devotee what is considered to be barrier in the matter of discharging devotional service. Those who are engaged in the devotional service of the Lord, uplift them to the position of unalloyed devotional service by His transcendental attraction.