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reaction of sinful activities. These are some of the examples of His
inconceivable potencies.

Srila Ripa Gosvami therefore offers his obeisances unto Krsna by
saying, “Krsna, who is present as a human being, has as His mere
shadow the whole material nature. He has expanded Himself into so
many cows, calves and cowherd boys, and He has again manifested
Himself in all of them as the four-handed Narayana. He has taught
millions of Brahmas self realization, and thus He is worshipable not
only by the heads of all universes, but by everyone else also. There-
fore let me always accept Him as the Supreme Personality of God-
head.”

When Indra was defeated by Krsna in the matter of taking the
parijata plant from heaven, Narada met Indra and criticized him: “‘O
Indra, great King of heaven, Krsna has already defeated Lord Brahma
and Lord Siva. So what can be said of an insignificant demigod like
you?” Narada Muni, of course, was criticizing Indra jokingly, and
Indra enjoyed it. In Narada’s statement it is confirmed that Krsna
was able to illusion even Lord Brahma and Lord Siva as well as Indra.
So there is no question of Krsna’s power to do the same to lesser
living entities.

A description of Krsna’s power in minimizing the sufferings of sin-
ful reactions is given in Brahma-samhita as follows: “Beginning from
the great King of heaven down to the ant, everyone is undergoing the
reactions of past deeds. But a devotee of Krsna is relieved from such
reactions by the grace of Krsna.” This was clearly proved when Krsna
went to the place of Yamaraja, the Lord of death, to reclaim the
dead sons of His teacher. Krsna’s teacher had requested Him to bring
back his dead sons, and to do so Krsna went to the place of Yamaraja
to claim all of those souls who had been brought there by Yamaraja
and were being kept under his control. Krsna immediately ordered
Yamaraja, “Be benefitted by My order and return those souls unto
Me!” The purport of this incident is that even a person who is under
the regulative principles of the laws of nature, and is therefore punish-
able by Yamaraja under these laws, can be granted complete im-
munity by the grace of Krsna.
