44 Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead

she entered the house of mother Yasoda. She appeared very beautiful with
raised hips, nicely swollen breasts, earrings, and flowers in her hair. She
looked especially beautiful on account of her thin waist. She was glancing
at everyone with very attractive looks and smiling face, and all the residents
of Vrndavana were captivated. The innocent cowherd women thought that
she was a goddess of fortune appearing in Vrndavana with a lotus flower in
her hand. It seemed to them that she had personally come to see Krsna,
who is her husband. Because of her exquisite beauty, no one checked her
movement, and therefore she freely entered the house of Nanda Maharaja.
Piitana, the killer of many, many children, found baby Krsna lying on a
small bed, and she could at once perceive that the baby was hiding His
unparalleled potencies. Puitana thought, “This child is so powerful that He
can destroy the whole universe immediately.”

Piitana’s understanding is very significant. The Supreme Personality of
Godhead, Krsna, is situated in everyone’s heart. It is stated in the
Bhagavad-gita that He gives one necessary intelligence, and He also causes
one to forget. Piittand was immediately aware that the child whom she was
observing in the house of Nanda Maharaja was the Supreme Personality of
Godhead Himself. He was lying there as a small baby, but that does not
mean that He was less powerful. The materialistic theory that God-worship
is anthropomorphic is not correct. No living being can become God by
undergoing meditation or austerities. God is always God. Krsna as the
child-baby is as complete as He is as a full-fledged youth. The Mayavadi
theory holds that the living entity was formerly God but has now become
overwhelmed by the influence of maya. Therefore they say that presently
he is not God, but when the influence of maya is taken away, then he
again becomes God. This theory cannot be applied to the minute living
entities. The living entities are minute parts and parcels of the Supreme
Personality of Godhead; they are minute particles or sparks of the supreme
fire, but are not the original fire, or Krsna. Krsna is the Supreme Person-
ality of Godhead, even from the beginning of His appearance in the house
of Vasudeva and Devaki.

Krsna showed the nature of a small baby and closed His eyes, as if to
avoid the face of Putana. This closing of the eyes is interpreted and studied
in different ways by the devotees. Some say that Krsna closed His eyes
because He did not like to see the face of Piitana, who had killed so many
children and who had now come to kill Him. Others say that something
extraordinary was being dictated to her, and in order to give her assurance,
Krsna closed His eyes so that she would not be frightened. And yet others
interpret in this way: Krsna appeared to kill the demons and give protec-
