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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 2, Ch. 7]
Factually there is no need of offering sacrifices to the demigods for their services if one is engaged in the service of the Supreme Lord. Sacrifices recommended in the Vedic literature for satisfaction of the demigods are a sort of inducement to the sacrificers just to realize the existence of higher authorities. The demigods are engaged by the Lord as controlling deities of the material affairs, and according to the  Bhagavad-gītā , when a demigod is worshiped the process is accepted as the indirect method for worshiping the Supreme Lord. But when the Supreme Lord is worshiped directly there is no need of worshiping the demigods or offering them sacrifices as is recommended in particular circumstances. Lord Kṛṣṇa therefore advised the inhabitants of the Vrajabhūmi not to offer any sacrifices to the heavenly King Indra. But Indra, not knowing Lord Kṛṣṇa in Vrajabhūmi, was angry at the inhabitants of Vrajabhūmi and tried to avenge the offense. But, competent as the Lord was, He saved the inhabitants and animals of Vrajabhūmi by His personal energy and proved definitely that anyone who is directly engaged as a devotee of the Supreme Lord need not satisfy any other demigods, however great, even to the level of Brahmā or Śiva. Thus this incidence definitely proved without a doubt that Lord Kṛṣṇa is the Personality of Godhead and He was so in all circumstances, as a child on the lap of His mother, as a boy seven years old, and as an old man of 125 years of age. In either case He was never on the level of the ordinary man, and even in His advanced age He appeared a young boy sixteen years old. These are the particular features of the transcendental body of the Lord.
TEXT 33
क्रीडन् वने निशि निशाकररश्मिगौर्या 
  रासोन्मुखः कलपदायतमूर्च्छितेन । 
  उद्दीपितसररुजां व्रजभृद्वधूनां 
  हर्तुर्हरिष्यति शिरो धनदानुगस्य ॥३३॥
krīḍan vane niśi niśākara-raśmi-gauryām 
  rāsonmukhaḥ kala-padāyata-mūrcchitena 
  uddīpita-smara-rujām vraja-bhṛd-vadhūnām 
  hartur hariṣyati śiro dhanadānugasya