171 The Nectar of Devotion

Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead and can see all that is
past, present and future, to teach the people in general He used to
always refer to the scriptures. For example, in the Bhagavad-gita, al-
though Krsna was speaking as the supreme authority, He still men-
tioned and quoted Veddnta-siitra as authority. There is a statement
in the Srimad-Bhagavatam wherein a person jokingly says that Krsna,
the enemy of Kamsa, is known as the seer through the sastras. In
order to establish His authority, however, He is now engaged in seeing
the gopis, whereby the gopis are becoming maddened.

21. Pure

There are two kinds of supreme purity. When one type is possessed,
one is able to deliver a sinful person. When the other type is
possessed, one does not do anything which is impure. A person who
possesses either of these qualities is called supremely pure. Krsna is
both; He can deliver all sinful conditioned souls, and at the same
time, He never does anything by which He can be contaminated.

In this connection, Vidura, while trying to detach his elder brother,
Dhrtarastra, from his familial attachments, said, “My dear brother,
you just fix your mind on the lotus feet of Krsna, who is worshiped
with beautiful erudite verses by great sages and saintly persons. Krsna
is the supreme deliverer amongst all other deliverers. Undoubtedly
there are great demigods like Lord Siva and Lord Brahma, but their
positions as deliverers depend always upon the mercy of Krsna.”
Therefore Vidura advised his elder brother Dhrtarastra to concentrate
his mind and worship only Krsna. If one simply chants the holy name
of Krsna, this holy name will rise within one’s heart like the powerful
sun and will immediately dissipate all the darkness of ignorance.
Vidura advised Dhrtarastra to therefore think always of Krsna so that
the volumes of contaminations due to sinful activities would be
washed off immediately. In the Bhagavad-gita also Krsna is addressed
by Arjuna as param brahma param dhama pavitram—the supreme pure.
There are many other instances exhibiting Krsna’s supreme purity.
