The Superexcellent Power of Krsna 337

Arjuna’s wonderful experience due to the mercy of Krsna is one of the
many thousands of pastimes performed by Lord Krsna during His stay in
this material world. They were all unique and have no parallel in the
history of the world. All these pastimes prove fully that Krsna is the
Supreme Personality of Godhead, yet while He was present within this
material world, He played just like an ordinary man possessing many
worldly duties. He played the part of an ideal householder, and although
He possessed 16,000 wives, 16,000 palaces and 160,000 children, He also
performed many sacrifices, just to teach the royal order how to live in the
material world for the welfare of humanity. As the ideal Supreme Person-
ality, He fulfilled the desires of everyone, from the brahmanas, the highest
persons in human society, down to the ordinary living entities, including
the lowest of men. Just as King Indra is in charge of distributing rain all
over the world to satisfy everyone in due course, so Lord Krsna satisfies
everyone by pouring down His causeless mercy. His mission was to give
protection to the devotees and to kill the demoniac kings; therefore, He
killed many hundreds and thousands of demons. Some of them He killed
personally, and some of them were killed by Arjuna, who was deputed by
Krsna. In this way He established many pious kings such as Yudhisthira at
the helm of world affairs. Thus, by His divine arrangement He created the
good government of King Yudhisthira, and there ensued peace and

tranquility.

Thus ends the Bhaktivedanta purport of the Second Volume, Thirty-
fourth Chapter, of Krsna, “The Superexcellent Power of Krsna.”
