108 Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead

brought the pdarijdta trees from heaven and implanted them in all His
palaces. Early in the morning, a mild breeze would carry the aroma of the
parijata flower, and Krsna would smell it just after rising from bed. Due to
this aroma, the honeybees would begin their humming vibration, and the
birds also would begin their sweet chirping sounds. All together it would
sound like the smging of professional chanters engaged in offering prayers
to Krsna. Although Srimati Rukminidevi, the first queen of Lord Krsna,
knew that briahma-muhiurta is the most auspicious time in the entire day,
she would feel disgusted at the appearance of brahma-muhurta because she
was not very happy to have Krsna leave her side in bed. Despite Srimati
Rukminidevi’s disgust, Lord Krsna would immediately get up from bed
exactly on the appearance of braéahma-muhirta. An ideal householder
should learn from the behavior of Lord Krsna how to rise early in the
morning, however comfortably he may be lying in bed embraced by his
wife.

After rising from bed, Lord Krsna would wash His mouth, hands and
feet and would immediately sit down and meditate on Himself. This does
not mean, however, that we should also sit down and meditate on ourselves.
We have to meditate upon Krsna, Radha-Krsna. That is real meditation,
Krsna is Krsna Himself; therefore He was teaching us that brahma-muhirta
should be utilized for meditation on Radha-Krsna. By doing so, Krsna
would feel very much satisfied, and similarly we will also feel transcen-
dentally pleased and satisfied if we utilize the brahma-muhiurta period to
meditate on Radha and Krsna and if we think of how Sri Rukminidevi and
Krsna acted as ideal householders to teach the whole human society to rise
early in the morning and immediately engage in Krsna consciousness. There
is no difference between meditating on the eternal forms of Radha-Krsna
and chanting the mahamantra, Hare Krsna. As for Krsna’s meditation, He
had no alternative but to meditate on Himself. The object of meditation
is Brahman, Paramatma or the Supreme Personality of Godhead, but
Krsna Himself is all three: He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead,
Bhagavan; the localized Paramatma is His plenary parcel expansion; and the
all-pervading Brahman effulgence is the personal rays of His transcendental
body. Therefore Krsna is always one, and for Him there is no differentia-
tion. That is the difference between an ordinary living being and Krsna.
For an ordinary living being there are many distinctions. An ordinary
living being is different from his body, and he is different from other
species of living entities. A human being is different from other human
beings and different from the animals. Even in his own body, there are
different bodily limbs. We have our hands and legs, but our hands are
