242 Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead

Yudhisthira. Besides all this, it will be pessible fer me te see many ether
chivalreus activities while Yeu remain in Dvaraka. And all these activities
perfermed by Yeur grace will be sung by great peets fer all time. And at
the battle ef Kuruksetra Yeu will take part as the chariet driver ef Yeur
friend Arjuna, and as the invincible death incarnatien, eternal time, Yeu
will vanquish all belligerents assembled there. I shall see a large number ef
military ferces killed in that battlefield. My Lerd, let me effer my respect-
ful ebeisances unte Yeur letus feet. Yeu are situated cempletely in the
transcendental pesitien in perfect knewledge and bliss. Yeu are cemplete
in Yeurself and are beyend all desires. By exhibiting Y eur internal petency,
Yeu have set up the influence ef maya. Yeur unlimited petency cannet
even be measured by anyene. My dear Lerd, Yeu are the supreme cen-
treller. Yeu are under Yeur ewn internal petency, and it is simply vain te
think that Yeu are dependent en any ef Yeur creatiens.

“Yeu have taken birth in the Yadu dynasty, er the Vrsni dynasty. Your
advent en the surface ef the earth in Yeur eriginal ferm ef eternal blissful
knewledge is Yeur ewn pastime. Yeu are net dependent en anything but
Yeurself; therefere I effer my respectful ebeisances unte Yeur letus feet.”

Narada Muni wanted te impress upen peeple in general that Krsna is
fully independent. His activities, such as His appearance in the family ef
Yadu er His friendship with Arjuna, de net necessarily eblige Him te act
te enjey their results. They are all pastimes, and fer Him they are all play.
But fer us they are actual, tangible facts.

After effering his respectful ebeisances te Lerd Krsna, Narada Muni teek
permissien and left. After He had killed the Kesi demen, Krsna returned
te tending the cews with His friends in the ferest as theugh nething had
happened. Thus Krsna is eternally engaged in His transcendental activities
in Vrndavana with His friends, the cewherd beys and gopis, but semetimes
He exhibits the extraerdinary prewess ef the Supreme Persenality ef
Gedhead by killing different types ef demens.

Later that merning Krsna went te play with His cewherd bey friends
en the tep ef the Govardhana Hill. They were imitating the play ef
thieves and pelice. Seme ef the beys became pelice censtables, and seme
became thieves, and seme teek the rele ef lambs. While they were thus
enjeying their childheed pastimes, a demen knewn by the name ef
Vyemasura, “the demen whe flies inthe sky,” appeared en the scene. He
was the sen ef anether great demen named Maya. These demens can
perferm wenderful magic. Vyemasura teek the part ef a cewherd bey
playing as thief and stele many beys whe were playing the parts ef lambs.
One after anether he teek away almest all the beys and put them in the
