Notes} The Advent of Lord Krsna: Introduction 111

of this when it clearly says, yogamaydm updsritah. On the other hand,
there were asuras headed by Salva and ksatriyas like Duryodhana who
were bereft of devotional service in spite of seeing Krsna’s carrier
Garuda and the universal form, and who could not understand Krsna to
be the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This was also bewilderment, but
this bewilderment was due to mahdmayéd. Therefore it is to be concluded
that the mdyd which drags a person from the Supreme Personality of
Godhead is called jadamaya, and the maya which acts on the transcen-
dental platform is called yogamayd. When Nanda Maharaja was taken
away by Varuna, he saw Krsna’s opulence, but nonetheless he thought of
Krsna as his son. Such feelings of parental love in the spiritual world are
acts of yogamay4, not of jadamdya, or mahamayd. This is the opinion of
Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura. ;

Siirasenams ca. The son of Kartaviryarjuna was Sirasena, and the
countries he ruled were also called Siirasena. This is noted by Sanatana
Gosvami in his Vaisnava-tosani commentary.

In regard to Mathura, we find this quotation:

mathyate tu jagat sarvarn
brahma-jfidnena yena va

tat-sdra-bhiitam yad yasyam
mathurd sd nigadyate

When a self-realized soul acts in his transcendental position, his situation
is called Mathur. In other words, when one acts in the process of bhakti-
yoga, he may live anywhere, but actually he lives in Mathura,
Vrndavana. Devotion to Krsna, the son of Nanda Maharaja, is the essence
of all knowledge, and wherever such knowledge is manifested is called
Mathura. Also, when one establishes bhakti-yoga, excluding all other
methods, one’s situation is called Mathura. Yatra nityam sannihito harih:
the place where Hari, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, lives eter-
nally is called Mathura. The word nitya indicates eternality. The
Supreme Lord is eternal, and His abode is also eternal. Goloka eva
nivasaty akhilatma-bhitah. Although the Lord is always stationed in His
abode, Goloka Vrndavana, He is present everywhere in fullness. This
means that when the Supreme Lord descends on the surface of the world,
His original abode is not vacant, for He can remain in His original abode
