Prayers by the Demigods for Lord Krsna in the Womb 19

appear in Your transcendental form for the benefit of the living entities so
that they can see You face to face and offer their worshipful sacrifices by
ritualistic performance of the Vedas, mystic meditation and devotional
service as recommended in the scriptures. Dear Lord, if You did not appear
in Your eternal transcendental form, full of bliss and knowledge—which
can eradicate all kinds of speculative ignorance about Your position—then
all people would simply speculate about You according to their respective
modes of material nature.”

The appearance of Krsna is the answer to all imaginative iconography of
the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Everyone imagines the form of the
Supreme Personality of Godhead according to his mode of material nature.
In the Brahma-sarihita it is said that the Lord is the oldest person. There-
fore a section of religionists imagine that God must le very old, and there-
fore they depict a form of the Lord like a very old man. But in the same
Brahma-samhita, that is contradicted; although He is the oldest of all
living entities, He has His eternal form as a fresh youth. The exact words
used in this connection in the Srimad-Bhagavatam are vijianam ajiianab hid
apamarjanam. Vijiianam means transcendental knowledge of the Supreme
Personality. Vijnanam is also experienced knowledge. Transcendental
knowledge has to be accepted by the descending process of disciplic
succession as Brahma presents the knowledge of Krsna in the Brahma-
samhita. Brahma-samhita is vijiianam as realized by Brahma’s transcen-
dental experience, and in that way he presented the form and the pastimes
of Krsna in the transcendental abode. Ajiianabhid means that which can
match all kinds of speculation. In ignorance, people are imagining the
form of the Lord; sometimes He has no form and sometimes He has form,
according to their different imaginations. But the presentation of Krsna in
the Brahma-samhita is vijnanam—s experienced knowledge given
by Lord Brahma and accepted by Lord Caitanya. There is no doubt about
it. Sri Krsna’s form, Sri Krsna’s flute, Krsna’s color—everything is reality.
Here it is said that this vijianam is always defeating all kinds of speculative
knowledge. “Therefore, without Your appearing as Krsna, as You are,
neither ajiiadnabhid (nescience of speculative knowledge) nor vijiianam
would he realized. Ajiianabhid apamarjanam—lby Your appearance the
speculative knowledge of ignorance will le vanquished and the real
experienced knowledge of authorities like Lord Brahma will be established.
Men influenced by the three modes of material nature imagine their own
God according to the modes of material nature. In this way God is

presented in various ways, but Your appearance will establish what the real
form of God is.”
