Prayers Offered by Lord Brahma to Lord Krsna 103

they are contemplate that I, Brahma, am the creator, Visnu is the main-
tainer, and Lord Siva is the annihilator. Actually, You are alone everything
—creator, maintainer, and annihilator. Similarly, You expand Yourself in
different incarnations; among the demigods You incarnate as Vamana-
deva, among the great sages You incarnate as Parasurama, among the
human beings You appear as Yourself, as Lord Krsna, or Lord Rama,
among the animals You appear as the boar incarnation, and among the
aquatics You appear as the incarnation of fish. And yet You have no
appearance; You are always eternal. Your appearance and disappearance
are made possible by Your inconceivable energy just to give protection to
the faithful devotees and to annihilate the demons. O my Lord, O all-
pervading Supreme Personality of Godhead, O Supersoul, controller of all
mystic powers, no one can appreciate Your transcendental pastimes as
they are exhibited within these three worlds. No one can estimate how
You have expanded Your yogamayd and Your incarnation and how You
act by Your transcendental energy. My dear Lord, this whole cosmic
manifestation is just like a flashing dream, and its temporary existence
simply disturbs the mind. As a result, we are full of anxiety in this
existence; to live within this material world means simply to suffer and
to be full of all miseries. And yet this temporary existence of the material
world appears to be pleasing and dear on account of its having evolved
from Your body, which is eternal and full of bliss and knowledge.

“My conclusion is, therefore, that You are the Supreme Soul, Absolute
Truth, and the supreme original person; and although You have expanded
Yourself in so many Visnu forms, or in living entities and energies, by
Your inconceivable transcendental potencies, You are the supreme one
without a second, You are the supreme Supersoul. The innumerable
living entities are simply like sparks of the original fire. Your Lordship,
the conception of the Supersoul as impersonal is wrongly accepted be-
cause I see that You are the original person. A person with a poor fund of
knowledge may think that, because You are the son of Maharaja Nanda,
You are not the original person, that You are born just like a human being.
They are mistaken. You are the actual original person; that is my con-
clusion. In spite of Your being the son of Nanda, You are the original
person, and there is no doubt about it. You are the Absolute Truth, and
You are not of this material darkness. You are the source of the original
brahmajyoli as well as the material luminaries. Your transcendental efful-
gence is identical with brahmajyolti. As it is described in the Brahma-
samhita, the brahmajyoli is nothing but Your personal bodily effulgence.
There are many Visnu incarnations and incarnations of Your different
