88 Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead
mountain holes and in the forests, but nowhere could He find them.

At the time when Aghasura was killed and the demigods were looking
on the incident with great surprise, Brahma, who was born out of the
lotus flower growing out of the navel of Visnu, also came to see. He was
surprised how a little boy like Krsna could act so wonderfully. Although
he was informed that the little cowherd boy was the Supreme Personality
of Godhead, he wanted to see more glorified pastimes of the Lord, and
thus he stole all the calves and cowherd boys and took them to a different
place. Lord Krsna, therefore, in spite of searching for the calves, could not
find them, and He even lost His boy friends on the bank of the Yamuna
where they had been taking their lunch. In the form of a cowherd boy,
Lord Krsna was very little in comparison to Brahma, but because He is the
Supreme Personality of Godhead, He could immediately understand that
all the calves and boys had been stolen by Brahma. Krsna thought,
“Brahma has taken away all the boys and calves. How can I alone return
to Vrndavana? The mothers will be aggrieved!”

Therefore in order to satisfy the mothers of His friends as well as to
convince Brahma of the supremacy of the Personality of Godhead, He
immediately expanded Himself as the cowherd boys and calves. In the
Vedas it is said that the Supreme Personality of Godhead expands Himself
in so many living entities by His energy. Therefore it was not very
difficult for Him to expand Himself again into so many boys and calves.
He expanded Himself to become exactly like the boys, who were of all
different features, facial and bodily construction, and who were different
in their clothing and ornaments and in their behavior and personal
activities. In other words, everyone has different tastes; being individual
soul, each person has entirely different activities and behavior. Yet Krsna
exactly expanded Himself into all the different positions of the individual
boys. He also became the calves, who were also of different sizes, colors,
activities, etc. This was possible because everything is an expansion of
Krsna’s energy. In the Visnu Purdna it is said, parasya brahmanah Sakti.
Whatever we actually see in the cosmic manifestation—be it matter or the
activities of the living entities—is simply an expansion of the energies of
the Lord, as heat and light are the different expansions of fire.

Thus expanding Himself as the boys and calves in their individual
capacities, and surrounded by such expansions of Himself, Krsna entered
the village of Vrndavana. The residents had no knowledge of what had
happened. After entering the village, Vrndavana, all the calves entered
their respective cowsheds, and the boys also went to their respective
mothers and homes.
