Text 35] Prayers by the Demigods 183

Ajndna-bhida means “that which can match all kinds of speculation.” In
ignorance, people are imagining the form of the Lord; sometimes He has
no form and sometimes He has form, according to their different imagi-
nations. But the presentation of Krsna in the Brahma-samhitd is
vijidna—scientific, experienced knowledge given by Lord Brahma and
accepted by Lord Caitanya. There is no doubt about it. Sri Krsna’s form,
Sri Krsna’s flute, Krsna’s color —everything is reality. Here it is said that
this vijfidnam is always defeating all kinds of speculative knowledge.
“Therefore,” the demigods prayed, “without Your appearing as Krsna,
as You are, neither ajridna-bhida (the nescience of speculative knowl-
edge) nor vijfidnam would be realized. Ajridna-bhidépamarjanam—by
Your appearance the speculative knowledge of ignorance will be van-
quished, and the real, experienced knowledge of authorities like Lord
Brahma will be established. Men influenced by the three modes of ma-
terial nature imagine their own God according to the modes of material
nature. In this way God is presented in various ways, but Your ap-
pearance will establish what the real form of God is.”

The highest blunder committed by the impersonalist is to think that
when the incarnation of God comes, He accepts a form of matter in the
mode of goodness. Actually the form of Krsna or Narayana is tran-
scendental to any material idea. Even the greatest impersonalist,
Satkardcarya, has admitted, ndrayanah paro ’vyaktat: the material cre-
ation is caused by the avyakta, the impersonal manifestation of matter or
the nonphenomenal total reservoir of matter, and Krsna is transcenden-
tal to that material conception. This is expressed in the Srimad-
Bhagavatam as suddha-sattva, or transcendental. The Lord does not
belong to the material mode of goodness, for He is above the position of
material goodness. He belongs to the transcendental, eternal status of
bliss and knowledge.

“Dear Lord,” the demigods prayed, “when You appear in Your dif-
ferent incarnations, You take different names and forms according
to different situations. Lord Krsna is Your name because You are all-
attractive; You are called Syamasundara because of Your transcendental
beauty. Syama means blackish, yet they say that You are more beautiful
than thousands of cupids. Kandarpa-koti-kamaniya. Although You ap-
pear in a color which is compared to that of a blackish cloud, You are the
transcendental Absolute, and therefore Your beauty is many, many times
