Lord Krṣṇa's Wonderful Activities
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You can arrange for it.” Krṣṇa immediately said yes, and He and Balarāma went to the forest where that demon was living with other demons, who had all taken the shape of asses. When the ass demons came to kick Krṣṇa and Balarāma with their hind legs, Balarāma caught one of them and threw him into the top of a tree, and the demon died. Then Krṣṇa and Balarāma killed the other demons the same way. Thus Their cowherd friends were very much obliged to Them.
On another occasion, the cowherd boys were surrounded by fire. Not knowing anyone else but Krṣṇa, they immediately called for Him, and Krṣṇa was ready: “Yes.” Thus Krṣṇa immediately swallowed the whole fire. There were many demons that attacked the boys, and every day the boys would return to their mothers and say, “Mother, Krṣṇa is so wonderful,” and they would explain what had happened that day. And the mothers would say, “Yes, our Krṣṇa is wonderful.” They did not know that Krṣṇa is God, the Supreme Person. They only knew that Krṣṇa is wonderful, that’s all. And the more they perceived Krṣṇa’s wonderful activities, the more their love increased. “Perhaps He may be a demigod,” they thought. When Nanda Mahārāja, Krṣṇa’s father, talked among his friends, the friends would talk about Krṣṇa and say, “Oh, Nanda Mahārāja, your child Krṣṇa is wonderful.” And Nanda Mahārāja would respond, “Yes, I see that. Maybe He is some demigod.” And even that was not certain—“maybe.”
Thus the inhabitants of Vṛndāvana do not care who is God and who is not. They love Krṣṇa, that’s all. Those who think of first analyzing Krṣṇa to determine whether He is God are not first-class devotees. The first-class devotees are those who have spontaneous love for Krṣṇa. How can we analyze Krṣṇa? He is unlimited, and therefore it is impossible. We have limited perception, and our senses have limited potency, so how can we study Krṣṇa? It is not possible at all. Krṣṇa reveals Himself to a certain extent, and that much is sufficient.
We should not be like the Māyāvādī philosophers, who try to find God by speculative deduction. “ Neti neti ,” they say. “God is not this, and God is not that.” But what God  is  they do not know. Materialistic scientists also try to find the ultimate cause, but their process is the same: “Not this, not that.” As much as they advance, they will always find “Not this, not that.” But what the ultimate cause is, they will never find. That is not possible.
What to speak of finding Krṣṇa, materialistic scientists cannot properly understand even material objects. They are trying to go to the moon, but actually they do not know what it is. If they understand what the moon is,