Sankaracarya's Vivekachudamani 404

तेजसीव तमो यत्र प्रलीनं भ्रान्तिकारणम् ।

अद्वितीये परे तत्त्वे निर्विशेषे भिदा कुतः ॥

tejasīva tamo yatra pralīnaṃ bhrāntikāraṇam |

advitīye pare tattve nirviśeṣe bhidā kutaḥ ||

(Sankaracarya's Vivekachudamani 404)

How can there be any indication of distinctions in the Supreme Reality which is non-dual and Absolute, in which ignorance, the very root of delusion, dissolves, like darkness into light?

By Srila Prabhupada

Krishna is the original sun; therefore wherever Krishna is present there cannot be any ignorance or illusion. Darkness is compared with ignorance, illusion, sleeping, laziness, intoxication, madness; these are all darkness. One who is in the quality of darkness, these things will be visible in his person: too much sleepy, lazy, ignorant. Just opposite, the opposite number of knowledge. So these are called darkness. So if actually, one is in bhakti, these qualities will be not visible in his person. This is a test of progress in Bhakti.

krsna-surya-sama; maya haya andhakara

yahan krsna, tahan nahi mayara adhikara

Yahan krsna: wherever Krishna is there. Krishna is absolute. He can be present in His various potencies. He can be present by His name only. Just like we chant Hare Krishna -- He is present, because His name is not different from Him. That is the absolute sense. In relative sense. if you always keep Krishna in your presence, then where is the possibility of ignorance and delusion? No, there is no possibility.

Because due to our lack of surrender. We have got doubts that "Whether bhakti can make me actually advance?" We have got doubts. So long we have got doubts, the bhakti is not progressing. We should clear all doubts. That is, you have got, everyone has got right to clear doubts. Clear doubts. If you think of God as an ordinary man, then that is doubt. Ordinary. Avajananti mam mudha manusim tanum asritam [Bg. 9.11]. "Foolish persons, they think Me as ordinary man." But He's not. He's God. We should not be, I mean to say, detached from Krishna because He's sitting on the lap of Yasoda. Still, He's Krishna. There are instances. Therefore we have to hear about Krishna. Krishna, when He was only three months old, oh, very beautiful child... As a beautiful child, He's taken care of other ladies and girls. Oh, it is very nice. So Putana, a demoness, she, in the dress of a very nice girl, approached Yasodamayi, and she had the desire... Because she was the agent of Kamsa. Kamsa was searching out to kill Krishna. So she came with poison in her breast so that she'll take the child, and naturally, the child, they suck breast of lady. And as soon as Krishna will suck the breast, and there is poison, it will die. That was his plan. Now Yasodamayi, she's a very innocent lady. She came: "Oh, Yasoda, you have got very nice child. Will you kindly give in my lap?" "Yes, yes. Why not? Take." And she at once put the child on the breast and Krishna sucked. Krishna sucked the poison and Krishna sucked the life also. At once the demon fell, a gigantic body, and there was... "Oh, how He is powerful."(?) So He's all-powerful there in the lap of His mother. Yasodamayi thought, "Oh! God has saved my child! This demoness, they came to cheat me." Yasodamayi does not know that here is God on her lap. This is another maya. This is called yogamaya. If Yasodamayi understands He is God, then (s)he cannot, I mean to say, bring up the child just like her own child, ordinary child. Therefore she must be in ignorance, that she... Because there is the connection of love only. That's all. So out of love, as somebody forgets what he is or she is, similarly Yasodamayi constantly seeing so many wonderful things played by Krishna, still she is thinking, "Oh, He is my child. These things are happening by some supernatural power. It is God's grace. It is God's grace that my child is saved." She is simply anxious to save her child. That's all.