Prayers Offered by Lord Brahma to Lord Krsna 107

alle to satisfy You with their milk. You have drunk their milk to satis-
faction, yet You are never satisfied by those engaged in performing
sacrifices. I am simply surprised, therefore, with the fortunate position of
Maharaja Nanda, mother Yagoda and the cowherd men and gopis, because
You, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Absolute Truth, are
existing here as their most intimate lovable object. My dear Lord, no one
can actually appreciate the good fortune of these residents of Vrndavana.
We are all demigods, controlling deities of the various senses of the living
entities, and we are proud of enjoying such privileges, but actually there is
no comparison between our position and the position of these fortunate
residents of Vrndavana because they are actually relishing Your presence
and enjoying Your association by dint of their activities. We may be proud
of being controllers of the senses, but here the residents of Vrndavana are
so transcendental that they are not under our control. Actually they are
enjoying the senses through service to You. I shall therefore consider my-
self fortunate to be given a chance to take birth in this land of Vrndavana
in any of my future lives.

“My dear Lord, I am therefore not interested in either material opulences
or liberation. I am most humbly praying at Your lotus feet for You to
please give me any sort of birth within this Vrndavana forest so that I may
le able to be favored ly the dust of the feet of some of the devotees of
Vrndavana. Even if I am given the chance to grow just as the humble grass
in this land, that will be a glorious birth for me. But if I am not so
fortunate to take birth within the forest of Vrndavana, I leg to be allowed
to take birth outside the immediate area of Vrndavana so that when the
devotees go out they will walk over me. Even that would be a great fortune
for me. I am just aspiring for a birth in which I will be smeared by the dust
of the devotees’ feet.

“I can see that everyone here is simply full of Krsna consciousness; they
do not know anything but Mukunda. All the Vedas are indeed searching
after the lotus feet of Krsna.”

It is confirmed in the Bhagavad-gita that the purpose of Vedic knowledge
is to find Krsna. And it is said in the Brahma-saziihitad that it is very dif-
ficult to find Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, by systematic
reading of the Vedic literature. But He is very easily available through the
mercy of a pure devotee. The pure devotees of Vrndavana are fortunate
because they can see Mukunda (Lord Krsna) all the time. This word
“mukunda” can be understood in two ways. Muk means liberation. Lord
Krsna can give liberation and therefore transcendental bliss. The word
also refers to His smiling face, which is just like the kunda flower. Mukha
