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Rāja-vidvā:  The King of Knowledge
planets in the solar system are resting in the sunshine, everything within the creation is resting on Krṣṇa-shine. All of these potencies of the Lord give pleasure to a devotee, but one who is envious of Krṣṇa rejects them. When one is a nondevotee, the statements of Krṣṇa seem to be so much bluff, but when one is a devotee, he thinks, “Oh, my Lord is so powerful,” and he becomes filled with love and adoration. Nondevotees think that because Krṣṇa says, “I am God,” they and everyone else can say the same. But if asked to show their universal form, they cannot do it. That is the difference between a pseudo god and the real God. Krṣṇa’s pastimes cannot be imitated. Krṣṇa married over 16,000 wives and kept them nicely in 16,000 palaces, but an ordinary man cannot even keep one wife nicely. It is not that Krṣṇa just spoke so many wonderful things; He also acted wonderfully. We should not believe one thing that Krṣṇa says or does and reject another; if belief is there, it must be full belief.
In this regard, there is a story of Nārada Muni, who was once asked by a  brāhmaṇa : “Oh, you are going to meet the Lord? Will you please ask Him when I’m going to get my salvation?”
“All right,” Nārada agreed. “I shall ask Him.”
As Nārada proceeded, he met a cobbler who was sitting under a tree mending shoes, and the cobbler similarly asked Nārada, “Oh, you are going to see God? Will you please inquire of Him when my salvation will come?”
When Nārada Muni went to the Vaikuṇṭha planets, he fulfilled their request and asked Nārāyaṇa (God)