266 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 10, Ch. 3

the difference between the Lord and an ordinary living being. The Vedas
say:

parasya saktir vividhaiva Srityate
svabhaviki jidna-bala-kriya ca
(Svetasvatara Upanisad 6. 8)

It is natural for the Lord to be untinged by material qualities, and be-
cause everything is perfectly present in His spiritual energy, as soon as
He desires something, it is immediately done. The Lord is not a prakrta-
Sisu, a child of this world, but by His personal energy He appeared like
one. Ordinary people may have difficulty accepting the supreme con-
troller, God, as a human being because they forget that He can do every-
thing by spiritual energy (dtma-mdyaya). Nonbelievers say, “How can
the supreme controller descend as an ordinary being?” This sort of
thinking is materialistic. Srila Jiva Gosvami says that unless we accept
the energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead as inconceivable,
beyond the conception of our words and mind, we cannot understand the
Supreme Lord. Those who doubt that the Supreme Personality of God-
head can come as a human being and turn Himself into a human child
are fools who think that Krsna’s body is material, that He is born and
that He therefore also dies.

In Srimad-Bhagavatam, Third Canto, Fourth Chapter, verses 28 and
29, there is a description of Krsna’s leaving His body. Maharaja Pariksit
inquired from Sukadeva Gosvami, ‘‘When all the members of the Yadu
dynasty met their end, Krsna also put an end to Himself, and the only
member of the family who remained alive was Uddhava. How was this
possible?” Sukadeva Gosvami answered that Krsna, by His own energy,
destroyed the entire family and then thought of making His own body
disappear. In this connection, Sukadeva Gosvami described how the Lord
gave up His body. But this was not the destruction of Krsna’s body;
rather, it was the disappearance of the Supreme Lord by His personal
energy.

Actually, the Lord does not give up His body, which is eternal, but as
He can change His body from the form of Visnu to that of an ordinary
human child, He can change His body to any form He likes. This does not
mean that He gives up His body. By spiritual energy, the Lord can appear
