संसारकूपे पतितं विषयैर्मुषितेक्षणम् । ग्रस्तं कालाहिनात्मानं कोऽन्यस्त्रातुमधीश्वर: ॥ ४१ ॥
saṁsāra-kūpe patitaṁ viṣayair muṣitekṣaṇam grastaṁ kālāhinātmānaṁ ko ’nyas trātum adhīśvaraḥ
- saṁsāra
- material existence
- kūpe
- in the dark well
- patitam
- fallen
- viṣayaiḥ
- by sense gratification
- muṣita
- stolen away
- īkṣaṇam
- vision
- grastam
- seized
- kāla
- of time
- ahinā
- by the serpent
- ātmānam
- the living entity
- kaḥ
- who
- anyaḥ
- else
- trātum
- is capable of delivering
- adhīśvaraḥ
- the Supreme Personality of Godhead
The intelligence of the living entity is stolen away by activities of sense gratification, and thus he falls into the dark well of material existence. Within that well he is then seized by the deadly serpent of time. Who else but the Supreme Personality of Godhead could save the poor living entity from such a hopeless condition?