11. The Touch Of Superior Energy
manye tvām kālam īśānam anādi-nidhanam vibhum samam carantam sarvatra bhūtānām yan mithaḥ kaliḥ
My Lord, I consider Your Lordship to be eternal time, the supreme controller, without beginning and end, the all- pervasive one. In distributing Your mercy, You are equal to everyone. The dissensions between living beings are due to social intercourse.
— Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.8.28
Kuntīdevī knew that Kṛṣṇa was neither her nephew nor an ordinary family member of her paternal house. She knew perfectly well that Kṛṣṇa is the primeval Lord who lives in everyone's heart as the Supersoul, Paramātmā. Another name of the Paramātmā feature of the Lord is  kāla , or eternal time. Eternal time is the witness of all our actions, good and bad, and thus resultant reactions are destined by Him. It is no use saying that we do not know why we are suffering. We may forget the misdeed for which we may suffer at this present moment, but we must remember that Paramātmā is our constant companion and therefore He knows everything—past, present, and future. And because the Paramātmā feature of
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