The Stealing of the Boys and Calves by Brahma 93

His worship. He was being worshiped by time, space, cosmic manifestation,
reformation, desire, activity and the three qualities of material nature.
Lord Visnu, Brahma also realized, is the reservoir of all truth, knowledge
and bliss. He is the combination of three transcendental features, namely
eternity, knowledge, and bliss, and He is the object of worship by the
followers of the Upanisads. Brahma realized that all the different forms of
cows, boys and calves transformed into Visnu forms were not transformed
by a mysticism of the type that a yogi or a demigod can display by specific
powers invested in him. The cows, calves and boys transformed into Visnu
murtis or Visnu forms were not displays of Visnu maya or Visnu energy,
but were Visnu Himself. The respective qualifications of Visnu and Visnu
maya are just like fire and heat. In the heat there is the qualification of
fire, namely warmth; and yet heat is not fire. The manifestation of the
Visnu forms of the boys, cows and calves was not like the heat, but rather
the fire—they were all actually Visnu. Factually, the qualification of Visnu
is full truth, full knowledge and full bliss. Another example can be given
with material objects, which are reflected in many, many forms. For
example, the sun is reflected in many water pots, but the reflections of
the sun in many pots are not actually the sun. There is no actual heat and
light from the sun in the pot, although it appears as the sun. But the forms
which Krsna assumed were each and every one full Visnu. Satyam means
truth, jianam, full knowledge, and ananda, full bliss.

Transcendental forms of the Supreme Personality of Godhead in His
person are so great that the impersonal followers of the Upanisads cannot
reach the platform of knowledge to understand them. Particularly, the
transcendental forms of the Lord are beyond the reach of the impersonal-
ists who can only understand, through the studies of Upanisads, that the
Absolute Truth is not matter and that the Absolute Truth is not materially
restricted by limited potency. Lord Brahma understood Krsna and His
expansion into Visnu forms and could understand that, due to the expan-
sion of energy of the Supreme Lord, everything movable and immovable
within the cosmic manifestation is existing.

When Brahma was thus standing baffled in his limited power and
conscious of his limited activities within the eleven senses, he could at
least realize that he was also a creation of the material energy, just like a
puppet. As a puppet has no independent power to dance but dances
according to the direction of the puppet master, so the demigods and
living entities are all subordinate to the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
As it is stated in the Caitanya-caritamrta, the only master is Krsna, and
all others are servants. The whole world is under the waves of the material
