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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 7, Ch. 1]
Supreme Brahman, the supreme abode and purifier.” Herein this is confirmed.  Viṣṇuṁ yad brahma param avyayam . The Supreme Viṣṇu is Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa is the cause of Viṣṇu, not vice versa. Similarly, Brahman is not the cause of Kṛṣṇa; Kṛṣṇa is the cause of Brahman. Therefore Kṛṣṇa is the Parabrahman ( yad brahma param avyayam ).
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कथं तस्मिन् मगवति दुरवग्राह्यधामनि । पश्यतां सर्वलोकानां लयमीयतुरञ्जसा ॥२०॥
katham tasmin bhagavati duravagrāhya-dhāmani paśyatām sarva-lokānām layam īyatur añjasā
katham —how;  tasmin —that;  bhagavati —in the Supreme Personality of Godhead;  duravagrāhya —difficult to attain;  dhāmani —whose nature;  paśyatām —looked on;  sarva-lokānām —while all the people;  layam īyatuh —became absorbed;  añjasā —easily.
TRANSLATION
How was it possible for Śiśupāla and Dantavakra, in the presence of many exalted persons, to enter very easily into the body of Kṛṣṇa, whose nature is difficult to attain?
PURPORT
Śiśupāla and Dantavakra were formerly Jaya and Vijaya, the doorkeepers of Vaikuṇṭha. Merging into the body of Kṛṣṇa was not their final destination. For some time they remained merged, and later they received the liberations of  sārūpya  and  sālokya , living on the same planet as the Lord in the same bodily form. The  śāstras  give evidence that if one blasphemes the Supreme Lord, his punishment is to remain in hellish life for many millions of years more than one suffers by killing many  brāhmaṇas . Śiśupāla, however, instead of entering hellish life, immediately and very easily received  sāyujya-mukti . That such a privilege had been offered to Śiśupāla was not merely a story. Everyone saw it hap-