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Brahmā Stealing the Boys and Calves
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pleasure,  ānanda-cinmaya-rasa .  Hlādinī śaktir asmāt : Kṛṣṇa has a transcendental potency called  hlādinī śakti . He does not enjoy anything that is a product of the material energy. Brahmā, therefore, would see Lord Kṛṣṇa expand His energy.
Brahmā wanted to take away Kṛṣṇa's associates, but instead he took away some other boys and calves. Rāvaṇa wanted to take away Sītā, but that was impossible, and instead he took away a  māyā  Sītā. Similarly, Brahmā took away  māyārbhakāḥ : boys manifested by Kṛṣṇa's  māyā . Brahmā could show some extraordinary opulence to the  māyārbhakāḥ ; but he could not show any extraordinary potency to Kṛṣṇa's associates. That he would see in the very near future.  Māyārbhakasya īśituḥ . This bewilderment, this  māyā , was caused by the supreme controller,  prabhavataḥ —the all-potent Supreme Person, Kṛṣṇa—and we shall see the result. Anyone materially born is subject to bewilderment. This pastime is therefore called  brahma-vimohana-līlā , the pastime of bewildering Brahmā.  Mohitaṁ nābhijānāti mām ebhyaḥ param avya-yam  (Bg. 7.13). Materially born persons cannot fully understand Kṛṣṇa. Even the demigods cannot understand Him ( muhyanti yat sūrayaḥ ).  Tene brahmā hṛdā ya ādi-kavaye  ( Bhāg.  1.1.1). Everyone, from Brahmā down to the small insect, must take lessons from Kṛṣṇa.
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ततो वत्सानद्धैत्य पुलिनेऽपि च वत्सपान् । उभावपि वने कृष्णो विचिकाय समन्ततः ॥१६॥
tato vatsān adṛṣṭvaitya puline 'pi ca vatsapān ubhāv api vane kṛṣṇo vicikāya samantataḥ
tataḥ —thereafter;  vatsān —the calves;  adṛṣṭvā —not seeing there within the forest;  etya —after;  puline api —to the bank of the Yamunā;  ca —also;  vatsapān —could not see the cowherd boys;  ubhau api —both of them (the calves and the cowherd boys);  vane —within the forest;  kṛṣṇaḥ —Lord Kṛṣṇa;  vicikāya —searched all over;  samantataḥ —here and there.