208 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 10, Ch. 10
TRANSLATION

Appearing in bodies like those of an ordinary fish, tortoise and
hog, You exhibit activities impossible for such creatures to per-
form—extraordinary, incomparable, transcendental activities of
unlimited power and strength. These bodies of Yours, therefore,
are not made of material elements, but are incarnations of Your
Supreme Personality. You are the same Supreme Personality of
Godhead, who have now appeared, with full potency, for the
benefit of all living entities within this material world.

PURPORT
As stated in Bhagavad-gita (4.7-8):
yada yada hi dharmasya
glanir bhavati bharata
abhyutthanam adharmasya
tadaétmanam srjamy aham
paritrandya sadhinam
vindsadya ca duskrtam
dharma-samsthapanarthaya
sambhavami yuge yuge
Krsna appears as an incarnation when real spiritual life declines and
when rogues and thieves increase to disturb the situation of the world.
Unfortunate, less intelligent persons, bereft of devotional service, cannot
understand the Lord’s activities, and therefore such persons describe
these activities as kalpand—mythology or imagination—because they
are rascals and the lowest of men (na mam duskrtino midhah
prapadyante narédhamah). Such men cannot understand that the events
described by Vyasadeva in the Puranas and other sdstras are not fic-
titious or imaginary, but factual.

Krsna, in His full, unlimited potency, here shows that He is the
Supreme Personality of Godhead, for although the two trees were so
large and sturdy that even many elephants could not move them, Krsna,
as a child, exhibited such extraordinary strength that they fell down with
