296 Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead

of material nature, but when He appears within this material world, it
seems that He acts like an ordinary living entity under the spell of the
modes of material nature. In fact, He is the overseer of this material
creation and is not affected by the material modes of nature. He creates,
maintains and dissolves the whole cosmic manifestation. We wrongly think
of Krsna and Balarama as ordinary human beings. We are like dizzy men
who see the whole world wheeling around them. The Personality of
Godhead is no one’s son; He is actually everyone’s father, mother and
supreme controller. There is no doubt of this. Whatever is being ex-
perienced, whatever is already in existence, whatever is not in existence,
whatever will be in existence in the future, whatever is the smallest and
whatever is the biggest have no separate existence outside the Supreme
Personality of Godhead. Everything is resting in Him, but He is out of
touch with everything manifested.”

Nanda and Uddhava thus passed the whole night in discussing Krsna. In
the morning, the gopis prepared for morning dratrika by lighting their
lamps and sprinkling butter mixed with yogurt. After finishing their
mangala-aratrika, they engaged themselves in churning butter from yogurt.
While the gopis were thus engaged, the lamps reflected on their ornaments
became still more illuminated. The churning rod, their arms, their earrings,
their bangles, their breasts—everything moved, and the kunkuma powder
gave their faces a saffron luster comparable to the rising sun. While
churning, they also sang the glories of Krsna. The two sound vibrations
mixed together, ascended to the sky and sanctified the whole atmosphere.
After sunrise the gopis came as usual to offer their respects to Nanda
Maharaja and Yasoda, but when they saw the golden chariot of Uddhava
at the door, they began to inquire among themselves. What was that
chariot, and to whom did it belong? Some of them inquired whether
Akrira, who had taken away Krsna, had again returned. They were
not very pleased with Akrira because, being engaged in the service of
Kamsa, he took Krsna away to the city of Mathura. All the gopis conjec-
tured that Akrira might have come again to fulfill another cruel plan. But
they thought, ““We are now dead bodies without our supreme master,
Krsna. What further act can he perpetrate on these dead bodies?” While
they were talking in this way, Uddhava finished his morning ablutions,
prayers and chanting and came before them.

Thus ends the Bhaktivedanta purport of the Forty-fifth Chapter of
Krsna, “Uddhava Visits Vrnddvana.”
