Krsna Pleases His Devotees 317
Then, keeping Krsna’s lotus feet on his lap, Akrira began to gently
massage them. When Akrira was fully satisfied in the presence of Krsna
and Balarama, his eyes became filled with tears of love for Krsna, and he
began to offer his prayers as follows.

‘““My dear Lord Krsna, it is very kind of You to have killed Kamsa and
his associates. You have delivered the whole family of the Yadu dynasty
from the greatest calamity. Your saving of the great Yadu dynasty will
always be remembered by them. My dear Lord Krsna and Balarama, You
are the original personality from whom everything has emanated. You
are the original cause of all causes. You have inconceivable energy, and
You are all-pervasive. But for Yourself, there is no other cause and effect,
gross or subtle. You are the Supreme Brahman realized by the study of the
Vedas. By Your inconceivable energy, You are actually visible before us.
You create this cosmic manifestation by Your own potencies, and You
enter into it Yourself. As the five material elements, earth, water, fire, air,
and sky, are distributed in everything manifested by different kinds of
bodies, so You alone enter into different varieties of bodies, created by
Your own energy. You enter the body as the individual soul as well as
independently as the Supersoul. The material body is created by Your
inferior energy. The living entities, individual souls, are part and parcel of
You, and the Supersoul is Your localized representation. This material
body, the living entity and the Supersoul constitute an individual living
being, but originally they are all different energies of the one Supreme
Lord.

“In the material world, You are creating, maintaining and dissolving the
whole manifestation by interaction of three qualities, namely goodness,
passion and ignorance. You are not implicated by the activities of those
material qualities because Your supreme knowledge is never overcome,
as is the case with the individual living entity.”

As the Supreme Lord enters into this material creation and thus the
creation, maintenance and destruction are going on in their due course, so
the part and parcel living entity enters the material elements and has his
material body created for him. The difference between the living entity
and the Lord is that the living entity is part and parcel of the Supreme
Lord and has the tendency to be overcome by the interaction of material
qualities. Krsna, the Parambrahman or the Supreme Brahman, being always
situated in full knowledge, is never overcome by such activities. Therefore
Krsna’s name is Acyuta, meaning He who never falls down. Krsna’s know-
ledge of spiritual identity is never overcome by material action, whereas
the identity of the minute part and parcel living entities is prone to be
