Text 47]
The Hainsa-guhya Prayers
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taṁ matvātmajam avyaktaṁ martya-liṅgam adhokṣajam gopikolūkhale dāmnā babandha prākṛtaṁ yathā
The Personality of Godhead appeared in Vṛndāvana as the son of mother Yaśodā, who bound the Lord with rope just as an ordinary mother binds a material child. There are actually no divisions of external and internal for the form of the Supreme Personality of Godhead ( sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha ), but when He appears in His own form the unintelligent think Him an ordinary person.  Avajānanti māṁ mūḍhā mānuṣīṁ tanum āśritam : although He comes in His own body, which never changes,  mūḍhas , the unintelligent, think that the impersonal Brahman has assumed a material body to come in the form of a person. Ordinary living beings assume material bodies, but the Supreme Personality of Godhead does not. Since the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the supreme consciousness, it is stated herein that  saṁjñāna-mātram , the original consciousness, Kṛṣṇa consciousness, was unmanifested before the creation, although the consciousness of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the origin of everything. The Lord says in  Bhagavad-gītā  (2.12), “Never was there a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor all these kings; nor in the future shall any of us cease to be.” Thus the Lord’s person is the Absolute Truth in the past, present and future.
In this regard, Madhvācārya quotes two verses from the  Matsya Purāṇa :
nānā-varṇo haris tv eko bahu-śīrṣa-bhujo rūpāt āsil laye tad-anyat tu sūkṣma-rūpaṁ śriyaṁ vinā
asuptaḥ supta iva ca militākṣo 'bhavad dhariḥ anyatrānādarād viṣṇau śrīś ca līneva kathyate