110 Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead

oceans. Because of Your supreme attraction, demons like Kamsa and
others are annihilated. Therefore it is my deliberate conclusion that You
are the only worshipable Deity within the creation. Accept my humble
obeisances until the annihilation of this material world. As long as there is
sunshine within this material world, kindly accept my humble obeisances.”

In this way, Brahma, the master of this universe, after offering humble
and respectful obeisances unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead and
circumambulating Him three times, was ready to return to his abode
known as Brahmaloka. By His gesture, the Supreme Personality of God-
head gave him permission to return. As soon as Brahma left, Lord Sri
Krsna immediately appeared as He had on the very day the cows and
cowherd boys had vanished.

Krsna had left His friends on the bank of the Yamuna while they were
engaged in lunch, and although He returned exactly one year later, the
cowherd boys thought that He had returned within a second. That is the
way of Krsna’s different energies and activities. It is stated in the Bhagavad-
gita that Krsna Himself is residing in everyone’s heart, and He causes both
remembrance and forgetfulness. All living entities are controlled by the
supreme energy of the Lord, and sometimes they remember and sometimes
they forget their constitutional position. His friends, being controlled in
such a way, could not understand that for one whole year they were absent
from the Yamuna bank and were under the spell of Brahma’s illusion.
When Krsna appeared before the boys, they thought, “Krsna has returned
within a minute.” They began to laugh, thinking that Krsna was not willing
to leave their lunchtime company. They were very jubilant and invited
Him, “Dear friend Krsna, You have come back so quickly! All right, we
have not as yet begun our lunch, not even taken one morsel of food. So
please come and join us and let us eat together.” Krsna smiled and accepted
their invitation, and He began to enjoy the lunchtime company of His
friends. While eating, Krsna was thinking, “These boys believe that I have
come back within a second, but they do not know that for the last year I
have been involved with the mystic activities of Lord Brahma.”

After finishing their lunch, Krsna and His friends and calves began to
return to their Vrajabhiimi homes. While passing, they enjoyed seeing the
dead carcass of Aghasura in the shape of a gigantic serpent. When Krsna
returned home to Vrajabhimi, He was seen by all the inhabitants of
Vrndavana. He was wearing a peacock feather in His helmet, which was
also decorated with forest flowers. Krsna was also garlanded with flowers
and painted with different colored minerals collected from the caves of
Govardhana Hill. Govardhana Hill is always famous for supplying natural
