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Teachings of Lord Chaitanya
with Your innumerable transcendental potencies and energies and qualities.” Lord Brahma informed Narada that, of all the great sages who were born before Narada, including he himself, none can understand the potential strength and energy of the Supreme Lord. So he admitted that if even Ananta, who has thousands of tongues, tries to estimate the Lord’s potential energy, he will fail.
Brahma prayed, therefore: “My Lord, You are unlimited, and no one has estimated the limit to Your potencies. I think that even Your Lordship does not know the range of Your potential energies. An unlimited number of planets float in the sky just like atoms, and great Vedantists who are engaged in research to find You find everything different from You, and at last they decide that You are everything.”
When Lord Krishna was within this Universe, Brahma played a trick on Him in order to confirm that the cowherd boy in Vrindaban was actually Krishna. By his power he stole all the cows and calves, and the friends of Krishna, who were engaged in herding the animals. But when he returned from hiding them to see the result, he saw that Krishna was playing with the same cows and calves and cowherd boys; because by His  Vaikuntha  potency He had expanded all the stolen cows, calves and friends. He saw millions and billions of them, and he also saw millions and billions of tons of cane and fruit, and lotus flowers and horns. And all the cowherd boys were decorated with different clothes and ornaments, and nobody could count their vast number. Brahma saw that each of the cowherd boys had become a four-handed Narayan, like the predominating deity of each  Brahmanda , and he saw that innumerable Brahmas also were engaged in offering obeisances to the Lord. He also saw that all of them were emanating from the body of Krishna, and after a second they were also entering into the body of Krishna. Brahma became struck with wonder by this extraordinary feat of Krishna, and in his prayer he admitted that anybody and everybody could say that he knows about Krishna—but so far as he was concerned, he did not know anything about Krishna. “My dear Lord,” he said, “the potencies and opulences which You have exhibited just now are beyond the capacity of my mind and understanding.”
Lord Chaitanya then explained that not only Krishna Loka, but even Krishna’s Abode on this planet, known as Vrindaban, cannot be estimated in potency. Vrindaban is estimated as thirty-two Scriptural miles, but even though Vrindaban in India is thirty-two miles, yet in some part of Vrindaban all the Vaikunthas exist. The area of the present Vrindaban consists of twelve