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Krṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead
brought the  pārijāta  trees from heaven and implanted them in all His palaces. Early in the morning, a mild breeze would carry the aroma of the  pārijāta  flower, and Krṣṇa would smell it just after rising from bed. Due to this aroma, the honeybees would begin their humming vibration, and the birds also would begin their sweet chirping sounds. All together it would sound like the singing of professional chanters engaged in offering prayers to Krṣṇa. Although Śrīmatī Rukmiṇīdevī, the first queen of Lord Krṣṇa, knew that  brāhma-muhūrta  is the most auspicious time in the entire day, she would feel disgusted at the appearance of  brāhma-muhūrta  because she was not very happy to have Krṣṇa leave her side in bed. Despite Śrīmatī Rukmiṇīdevī's disgust, Lord Krṣṇa would immediately get up from bed exactly on the appearance of  brāhma-muhūrta . An ideal householder should learn from the behavior of Lord Krṣṇa how to rise early in the morning, however comfortably he may be lying in bed embraced by his wife.
After rising from bed, Lord Krṣṇa would wash His mouth, hands and feet and would immediately sit down and meditate on Himself. This does not mean, however, that we should also sit down and meditate on ourselves. We have to meditate upon Krṣṇa, Rādhā-Krṣṇa. That is real meditation, Krṣṇa is Krṣṇa Himself; therefore He was teaching us that  brāhma-muhūrta  should be utilized for meditation on Rādhā-Krṣṇa. By doing so, Krṣṇa would feel very much satisfied, and similarly we will also feel transcendentally pleased and satisfied if we utilize the  brāhma-muhūrta  period to meditate on Rādhā and Krṣṇa and if we think of how Śrī Rukmiṇīdevī and Krṣṇa acted as ideal householders to teach the whole human society to rise early in the morning and immediately engage in Krṣṇa consciousness. There is no difference between meditating on the eternal forms of Rādhā-Krṣṇa and chanting the  mahāmantra , Hare Krṣṇa. As for Krṣṇa's meditation, He had no alternative but to meditate on Himself. The object of meditation is Brahman, Paramātmā or the Supreme Personality of Godhead, but Krṣṇa Himself is all three: He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Bhagavān; the localized Paramātmā is His plenary parcel expansion; and the all-pervading Brahman effulgence is the personal rays of His transcendental body. Therefore Krṣṇa is always one, and for Him there is no differentiation. That is the difference between an ordinary living being and Krṣṇa. For an ordinary living being there are many distinctions. An ordinary living being is different from his body, and he is different from other species of living entities. A human being is different from other human beings and different from the animals. Even in his own body, there are different bodily limbs. We have our hands and legs, but our hands are