The Superexcellent Power of Krsna 333

the pastimes of Lord Krsna because the horses of Krsna are not ordinary.
It is not possible for ordinary horses to go all over the universe and then
enter into its outer covering layers. As Krsna is transcendental, similarly
His chariot and His horses and everything about Him are also transcen-
dental, beyond the qualities of this material world. We should always
remember that Krsna was playing the part of an ordinary human being,
and His horses also, by the will of Krsna, played the parts of ordinary
horses in hesitating to enter the darkness.

Krsna is known as Yogeégvara, as is stated in the last portion of Bhagavad-
gita. Yogesvara Hari: all mystic powers are under His control. In our
experience, we can see many human beings who have yogic mystic power.
Sometimes they perform very wonderful acts, but Krsna is understood to
be the master of all mystic power. Therefore, when He saw that His horses
were hesitant to proceed into the darkness, He immediately released His
disc, known as the Sudargana cakra, which illuminated the sky a thousand
times brighter than sunlight. The darkness of the covering of the universe
is also a creation of Krsna’s, and the Sudargana cakra is Krsna’s constant
companion. Thus the darkness was penetrated by His keeping the Sudarsgana
cakra in front. Srimad-Bhagavatam states that the Sudargana cakra
penetrated the darkness just as an arrow released from the Samga bow
of Lord Ramacandra penetrated the army of Ravana. Su means very nice,
and dargana means observation; by the grace of Lord Krsna’s disc,
SudarSana, everything can be seen very nicely, and nothing can remain in
darkness. Thus Lord Krsna and Arjuna crossed over the great region of
darkness covering the material universes.

Arjuna then saw the effulgence of light known as the brahmajyoti. The
brahmajyoti is situated outside the covering of the material universes, and
because it cannot be seen with our present eyes, this brahmajyoti is
sometimes called avyakta. This spiritual effulgence is the ultimate destina-
tion of the impersonalists known as Vedantists. The brahmajyoti is also
described as anantaparam, unlimited and unfathomed. When Lord Krsna
and Arjuna reached this region of the brahmajyoti, Arjuna could not
tolerate the glaring effulgence, and he closed his eyes. Lord Krsna’s and
Arjuna’s reaching the brahmajyoti region is described in Harivaméa. In that
portion of the Vedic literature, Krsna informed Arjuna, ““My dear Arjuna,
the glaring effulgence, the transcendental light which you are seeing, is
My bodily rays. O chief of the descendants of Bharata, this brahmajyoti is
Myself.” As the sun disc and the sunshine cannot be separated, similarly
Krsna and His bodily rays, the brahmajyoti, cannot be separated. Thus
Krsna claimed that the brahmajyoti is He Himself. This is clearly stated in
