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The Lord's Pastimes Out of Vṛndāvana
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universe is controlled by the supernatural force called the  prakṛti , or  daivī-māyā . No one is independent in obtaining sense enjoyment, and everyone in this material world is after sense enjoyment. Persons who are themselves under the control of supernatural power cannot believe that Lord Kṛṣṇa is not under any control beyond Himself in the matter of sense enjoyment. They cannot understand that His senses are transcendental. In the  Brahma-saṁhitā  the Lord's senses are described as omnipotent; i.e., with any sense He can perform the activities of the other senses. One who has limited senses cannot believe that the Lord can eat by His transcendental power of hearing and can perform the act of sex life simply by seeing. The controlled living entity cannot even dream of such sense activities in his conditional life. But simply by the activities of  bhakti-yoga , he can understand that the Lord and His activities are always transcendental. As the Lord says in  Bhagavad-gītā  (Bg. 18.55),  bhaktyā mām abhijānāti yāvān yaś cāsmi tattvataḥ : one cannot know even a fraction of the activities of the Lord if he is not a pure devotee of the Lord.
TEXT 24
पुर्या कदाचित्क्रीडद्विर्यदुभोजकुमारकैः । कोपिता मुनयः शे पुर्भगवन्मतकोविदाः ॥२४॥
puryām kadācit krīḍadbhir yadu-bhoja-kumārakaiḥ kopitā munayaḥ śepur bhagavan-mata-kovidāḥ
puryām —in the city of Dvārakā;  kadācit —once upon a time;  krīḍadbhiḥ —by sporting activities;  yadu —the descendants of Yadu;  bhoja —the descendants of Bhoja;  kumārakaiḥ —princes;  kopitāḥ —became angry;  munayaḥ —the great sages;  śepuḥ —cursed;  bhagavat —Personality of Godhead;  mata —desire;  kovidāḥ —cognizant.
TRANSLATION
Once upon a time, great sages were made angry by the sporting activities of the princely descendants of the Yadu and Bhoja dynasties, and thus, as desired by the Lord, the sages cursed them.
PURPORT
The associates of the Lord who were playing the part of princes of descendants of the Yadu and Bhoja dynasties were not ordinary living