Text 18]
The Onulence and Sweetness of Krsna
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TEVT 10
এমত অন্যত্র নাহি শুনিয়ে অঙ্কুত । যাহার শ্রবণে চিত্ত হয় অবধত ॥ ১৮ ॥
e-mata anyatra nāhi śuniye adbhuta vāhāra śravane citta hava avadhūta
SYNONYMS
e-mata —like this;  anyatra —anywhere else;  nāhi —not;  śuniye —I hear;  adbhuta —wonderful event;  yāhāra —of which;  śravaṇe —by hearing;  citta —consciousness;  haya —becomes;  avadhūta —agitated and cleansed.
TRANSLATION
“We do not hear of such wonderful things anywhere. Simply by hearing of those incidents, one’s consciousness is agitated and cleansed.
PURPORT
When Lord Krṣṇa was present in the earthly Vṛndāvana, Lord Brahmā, taking Him to be an ordinary cowherd boy, wanted to test His potency. Therefore Lord Brahmā stole all the cows, calves and cowherd boys from Krṣṇa and hid them by his illusory energy. When Krṣṇa saw that Brahmā had stolen His cows, calves and cowherd boys, He immediately created many material and spiritual planets in Lord Brahmā's presence. Within a moment, cows, cowherd boys, calves and unlimited Vaikuṇṭhas — all expansions of the Lord's spiritual energy —were manifested. As stated in the  Brahma-saṁhitā :  ānanda-cinmaya-rasa-pratibhāvitābhiḥ . Not only did Krṣṇa create all the paraphernalia of His spiritual energy, but He also created unlimited material universes with unlimited Brahmās. All these pastimes, which are described in  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam , will cleanse one's consciousness. In this way one can actually understand the Absolute Truth. The spiritual planets in the spiritual sky are called Vaikuṇṭhas, and each of them has a predominating Deity (Nārāyaṇa) with a specific name. Similarly, in the material sky there are innumerable universes, and each is dominated by a specific deity, a Brahmā. Krṣṇa simultaneously created all these Vaikuṇṭha planets and universes within a moment of Brahmā's return.
The word  avadhūta  means “rambling, agitating, moving, absorbed, defeated.” In some readings of  Caitanya-caritāmṛta , it is said:  yāhāra śravaṇe citta-mala haya dhūta . Instead of the word  avadhūta , the words  haya dhūta , meaning that the heart or consciousness is cleansed, is used. When the consciousness is cleansed, one can understand what and who Kṛṣṇa is. This is also confirmed in  Bhagavad-gītā  (7.28):