94 Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead

spell, and beings are floating like straws in water. So thew struggle for
existence is continuing. But as soon as one becomes conscious that he is
the eternal servant of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, this maya or
illusory struggle for existence is immediately stopped.

Lord Brahma, who has full control over the goddess of learning and who
is considered to be the best authority in Vedic knowledge, was thus
perplexed, being unable to understand the extraordinary power manifested
in the Supreme Personality of Godhead. In the mundane world, even a
personality like Brahma is unable to understand the potential mystic
power of the Supreme Lord. Not only did Brahma fail to understand, but
he was perplexed even to see the display which was being manifested by
Krsna before him.

Krsna took compassion upon Brahma’s inability to see even how He
was displaying the force of Visnu in transferring Himself into cows and
cowherd boys, and thus, while fully manifesting the Visnu expansion, He
suddenly pulled His curtain of yogamaya over the scene. In the Bhagavad-
gita it is said that the Supreme Personality of Godhead is not visible due to
the curtain spread by yogamaya. That which covers the reality is maha-
maya, or the external energy, which does not allow a conditioned soul to
understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead beyond the cosmic
manifestation. But the energy which partially manifests the Supreme
Personality of Godhead and partially does not allow one to see, is called
yogamaya. Brahma is not an ordinary conditioned soul. He is far, far
superior to all the demigods, and yet he could not comprehend the display
of the Supreme Personality of Godhead; therefore Krsna willingly stopped
manifesting any further potency. The conditioned soul not only becomes
bewildered, but he is completely unable to understand. The curtain of
yogamaya was drawn so that Brahma would not become more and more
perplexed.

When Brahma was relieved from his perplexity, he appeared to be
awakened from an almost dead state, and he began to open his eyes with
great difficulty. Thus he could see the eternal cosmic manifestation with
common eyes. He saw all around him the super-excellent view of Vrnda-
vana—full with trees—which is the source of life for all living entities. He
could appreciate the transcendental land of Vrndavana where all the living
entities are transcendental to ordinary nature. In the forest of Vrndavana,
even ferocious animals like tigers and others live peacefully along with
the deer and human being. He could understand that, because of the
presence of the Supreme Personality of Godhead in Vrndavana, that place
is transcendental to all other places and that there is no lust and greed
