Releasing Nanda Maharaja From the Clutches of Varuna 185
But this moment, as I look at You, my life is made completely successful
because by seeing You I no longer have to accept a material body. There-
fore, O Lord, Supreme Personality of Godhead, Supreme Brahman and
Supersoul of everything, let me offer my respectful obeisances unto You.
You are the supreme transcendental personality; there.is no possibility of
imposing the influence of material nature upon You. I am very sorry that
by being foolish, by not knowing what to do or what not to do, I have
mistakenly arrested Your father, Nanda Maharaja. So I beg Your pardon
for the offence of my servants. I think that it was Your plan to show me
Your mercy by Your personal presence here. My dear Lord Krsna, Govinda,
be merciful upon me—here is Your father. You can take him back imme-
diately.”

In this way Lord Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, rescued
His father and presented him before his friends with great jubilation. Nanda
Maharaja was surprised that, although the demigod was so opulent, he
offered such respect to Krsna. That was very astonishing to Nanda, and he
began to describe the incident to his friends and relatives with great
wonder.

Actually, although Krsna was acting so wonderfully, Maharaja Nanda
and mother Yagoda could not think of Him as the Supreme Personality of
Godhead. Instead, they always accepted Him as their beloved child. Thus
Nanda Maharaja did not accept the fact that Varuna worshiped Krsna
because Krsna was the Supreme Personality of Godhead; rather he took it
that because Krsna was such a wonderful child He was respected even by
Varuna. The friends of Nanda Maharaja, all the cowherd men, became
eager to know if Krsna were actually the Supreme Personality and if He
were going to give them all salvation. When they were all thus consulting
among themselves, Krsna understood their minds, and in order to assure
them of their destiny in the spiritual kingdom, He showed them the
spiritual sky. Generally, ordinary persons are engaged simply in working
hard in the material world, and they have no information that there is
another kingdom or another sky, which is known as the spiritual sky,
where life is eternal, blissful, and full of knowledge. As it is stated in the
Bhagavad-gita, a person returning to that spiritual sky never returns to this
material world of death and suffering.

Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is always anxious to give
information to the conditioned soul that there is a spiritual sky far, far
beyond this material sky, transcendental to the innumerable universes
created within the total material energy. Krsna is, of course, always very
kind to every conditioned soul, but, as stated in the Bhagavad -gita, He is
