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Va
14/ Prayers Offered by Lord Brahma
to Lord Krsna

Brahma said, “My dear Lord, You are the only worshipful Supreme
Lord, Personality of Godhead; therefore I am offering my humble obei-
sances and prayers just to please You. Your bodily features are of the
color of clouds filled with water. You are glittering with a silver electric
aura emanating from Your yellow garments.

“Let me offer my respectful repeated obeisances unto the son of
Maharaja Nanda who is standing before me with conchshell, earrings and
peacock feather on His head. His face is beautiful; He is wearing a helmet,
garlanded by forest flowers, and He stands with a morsel of food in His
hand. He is decorated with cane and bugle, and He carries a buffalo horn
and flute. He stands before me with small lotus feet.

“My dear Lord, people may say that I am the master of all Vedic
knowledge, and I am supposed to be the creator of this universe, but it has
been proved now that I cannot understand Your personality, even though
You are present before me just like a child. You are playing with Your boy
friends, calves and cows, which might imply that You do not even have
sufficient education. You are appearing just like a village boy, carrying
Your food in Your hand and searching for Your calves. And yet there is
so much difference between Your body and mine that I cannot estimate
the potency of Your body. As I have already stated in the Brahma-samhita,
Your body is not material.”

In the Brahma-samhita it is stated that the body of the Lord is all spirit-
ual; there is no difference between the Lord’s body and His self. Each limb
of His body can perform the actions of all the others. The Lord can see
with His hands, He can hear with His eyes, He can accept offerings with
His legs and He can create with His mouth.

Brahma continued: “Your appearance as a cowherd child is for the
benefit of the devotees, and although I have committed offenses at Your

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