PLATE FOUR

Lord Brahma saw the Absolute Truth—who is one without a second,
who possesses full knowledge and who is unlimited —assuming the role
of a child in a family of cowherd men and standing all alone, just as
before, with a morsel of food in His hand, searching everywhere for the
calves and His cowherd friends. After seeing this, Lord Brahma hastily
got down from his swan carrier, fell down like a golden rod and touched
the lotus feet of Lord Krsna with the tips of the four crowns on his heads.
Offering his obeisances, he bathed the feet of Krsna with the water of his
tears of joy. Rising and falling again and again at the lotus feet of Lord
Krsna for a long time, Lord Brahma remembered over and over the
Lord’s greatness he had just seen. Then, rising very gradually and wip-
ing his two eyes, Lord Brahma looked up at Mukunda. Lord Brahma,
his head bent low, his mind concentrated and his body trembling,
very humbly began, with faltering words, to offer praise to Lord Krsna.
(pp. 73-78)
