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an ordinary human being. In the Fourth Chapter Krṣṇa states that He can remember instructing the lessons of the  Bhagavad-gītā  some millions of years ago to the sun-god, Vivasvān.
Nowadays it is the fashion of the atheistic class of men to try to become God by following some mystic process. Generally the atheists claim to be God by dint of their imagination or their meditational prowess. Krṣṇa is not that kind of God. He does not become God by manufacturing some mystic process of meditation, nor does He become God by undergoing the severe austerities of the mystic yogic exercises. Properly speaking, He never becomes God because He is the Godhead in all circumstances.
Within the prison of His maternal uncle Kaṁsa, where His father and mother were confined, Krṣṇa appeared outside His mother's body as the four-handed Viṣṇu-Nārāyaṇa. Then He turned Himself into a baby and told His father to carry Him to the house of Nanda Mahārāja and his wife Yaśodā. When Krṣṇa was just a small baby the gigantic demoness Pūtanā attempted to kill Him, but when He sucked her breast He pulled out her life. That is the difference between the real Godhead and a God manufactured in the mystic factory. Krṣṇa had no chance to practice the mystic  yoga  process, yet He manifested Himself as the Supreme Personality of Godhead at every step, from infancy to childhood, from childhood to boyhood, and from boyhood to young manhood. In this book  Krṣṇa , all of His activities as a human being are described. Although Krṣṇa plays like a human being, He always maintains His identity as the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Since Krṣṇa is all-attractive, one should know that all his desires should be focused on Krṣṇa. In the  Bhagavad-gītā  it is said that the individual person is the proprietor or master of the body, but Krṣṇa, who is the Supersoul present in everyone's heart, is the supreme proprietor and supreme master of each and every individual body. As such, if we concentrate our loving propensities upon Krṣṇa only, then immediately universal love, unity and tranquility will be automatically realized. When one waters the root of a tree, he automatically waters the branches, twigs, leaves and flowers; when one supplies food to the stomach through the mouth, he satisfies all the various parts of the body.
The art of focusing one's attention on the Supreme and giving one's love to Him is called Krṣṇa consciousness. We have inaugerated the Krṣṇa consciousness movement so that everyone can satisfy his propensity for loving others simply by directing his love towards Krṣṇa. The whole world is very much anxious to satisfy the dormant propensity of love for others, but the inventions of various methods like socialism, communism, altruism,