Knowing Krṣṇa as He Is
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disturbance in Central Europe or in any other place in the world, he immediately has to call a meeting of his cabinet to consider how to deal with the situation. So even he is required to do so many things. If he does not do anything, he is no longer the supreme man. In Vedic literatures, however, we find that God has nothing to do ( na tasya kāryam karaṇam ca vidyate ). Krṣṇa may act in so many ways in the world, but it is not because He is required to do so. This is indicated in  Bhagavad-gītā .
na me pārthāsti kartavyam 
        triṣu lokeṣu kiñcana 
        nānavāptam avāptavyam 
        varta eva ca karmaṇi
“O son of Prthā, there is no work prescribed for Me within all the three planetary systems. Neither am I in want of anything, nor have I the need to obtain anything—and yet I am engaged in work.” (Bg. 3.22)
In this respect it is interesting to note that one European gentleman, who went to Calcutta and visited several temples, noted that in the temple of the goddess Kālī, the deity had a very ferocious figure, with a chopper in hand, and was cutting off the heads of demons and wearing them as garlands. In other temples he saw the deity engaged in similar activities, but when he came to the Rādhā-Krṣṇa temple, he said, “I find that in this temple there is God.” When asked how he concluded this, he said, “In every temple I saw that the deity was doing something, but here I see that God is simply playing a flute and enjoying Himself. He obviously has