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their distress just as in the cases of Ajamila, Vyādha etc. Further, Suradasa holds that Māyā is the deceptive power which generates in men infatuation (Mahamohini-H), and it produces greed and various other desires in men by assuming various forms. Māyā is extremely powerful. It has created this world and has absorbed in itself the minds of all the people.3 Bondage is caused by nescience(avidyā).
Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
The Kṛṣṇa of Sūradāsa is not the Kṛṣna of Dwarka, who stands to organise the society and the state among the other kings but He is the Krsna encircled by the gopis intensely filled with love. The form of Kṛṣṇa which they adore is an ocean of beauty and merriment. These devotees are lost in their own enjoyment, and were the least concerned with constructing a new ideal of Kṛṣṇa who would form norms and standards for the society. Their Kṛṣṇa was an embodiment of amorosity and sport and gave even sensuous satisfaction to the people.*
Like the other spiritualists, Suradāsa also is afflicted here in this world in various ways. He is conscious of his defects which are caused by the various passions by which his mind is governed from time to time. He is conscious of his own defects and degeneration. To him such a life full of passions and bad desires is not bearable. He, therefore, requests the Lord to dispel his ignorance
1 Sūradāsa: Surasagara, Vol. I (Hindi), Skandha I, Verses 12, 16, 17.
2 Ibid. Verse 42.
3 Ibid. Verse 44.
Shukla Ramchandra: Hindi Sahityak Itihasa, p. 164.
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