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transcendental body of the Lord as something like his own, and therefore he cannot think of the Lord's unlimited power of control, even though He is not visible in the acting of the physical laws. The Lord is, however, visible to the naked eyes of the people in general when He descends Himself by His own personal potency. Lord Kṛṣṇa incarnated Himself as He is and played very wonderful parts as the Lord Himself, and the  Bhagavad-gītā  concerns such wonderful actions and knowledge, and yet foolish men will not accept Lord Kṛṣṇa as the Supreme Lord. Generally they consider the infinitesimal and infinite features of the Lord because they themselves are unable to become either the infinitesimal or the infinite, but one should know that the infinite and infinitesimal sizes of the Lord are not His highest glories. The most wonderful manifestation of the Lord's power is exhibited when the infinite Lord becomes visible to our eyes as one of us. Yet His activities are different from those of the finite beings. To lift a mountain at the age of six years or to marry sixteen thousand wives in His prime of youth are some of the examples of His infinite energy, but the  mūḍhas , after seeing them or hearing about them, decry them as legendary and take the Lord as one of them. They cannot understand that the Lord Śri Kṛṣṇa, although in the form of a human being by His own potency, is still the Supreme Lord with full potency as supreme controller.
When, however, the  mūḍhas  give submissive aural reception to the messages of the Lord as in the  Śrīmad-Bhagavad-gītā  or in the  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  through the channel of discipline succession, such  mūḍhas  also become devotees of the Lord by the grace of His pure devotees. And for this reason only, either in the  Bhagavad-gītā  or in the  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam , the pastimes of the Lord in the material world are delineated for the benefit of those men with a poor fund of knowledge.
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वास्ववात्सीत् स्वमृष्टासु सहस्रंपरिवत्सरान् । तेन नारायणो नाम यदापः पुरुषोद्धवाः ॥११॥
tāsv avātsīt sva-sṛṣṭāsu sahasram parivatsarān tena nārāyaṇo nāma yad āpaḥ puruṣodbhavāḥ