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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 2, Ch. 7]
यद् रिङ्गतान्तरगतेन दिविस्पृशोर्वा उन्मूलनं त्वितरथार्जुनयोर्न भाव्यम्॥२७॥
tokena jīva-haraṇam yad ulūki-kāyās trai-māsikasya ca padā śakaṭo pavṛttaḥ yad riṅgatāntaragatena divi-spṛśor vā unmūlanam tv itarathārjunayor na bhāvyam
tokena—by a child; jīva-haraṇam—killing a living being; yat—one which; ulūki-kāyāḥ—assumed the giant body of a demon; trai-māsikasya—of one who is only three months old; ca—also; padā—by the leg; śakaṭaḥ upavṛttaḥ—turned over the cart; yat—one who; riṅgatā—while crawling; antaragatena—being overtaken; divi—high in the sky; spṛśoḥ—touching; vā—either; unmūlanam—uprooting; tu—but; itarathā—anyone else than; arjunayoḥ—of the two arjuna trees; na bhāvyam—was not possible.
TRANSLATION
There is no doubt about Lord Kṛṣṇa's being the Supreme Lord, otherwise how was it possible for Him to kill a giant demon like Pūtanā when He was just on the lap of His mother, to overturn a cart with His leg when He was only three months old, to uproot a pair of arjuna trees, so high that they touched the sky, when He was only crawling. All these activities are not possible for anyone other than the Lord Himself.
PURPORT
One cannot manufacture a God by one's mental speculation or by numerical votes, as has become a practice for the less intelligent class of men. God is God eternally, and an ordinary living entity is eternally a part and parcel of God. God is one without a second, and the ordinary living entities are many without number. All such living entities are maintained by God Himself, and that is the verdict of the Vedic literatures. When Kṛṣṇa was on the lap of His mother, the demon Pūtanā appeared before His mother and prayed to nurture the child in her lap. Mother Yaśodā agreed, and the child was transferred onto the lap of Pūtanā, who was in the garb