Text 19] Brahma Stealing the Boys and Calves 21

with their exact bodily features, their particular types of hands,
legs and other limbs, their sticks, bugles and flutes, their lunch
bags, their particular types of dress and ornaments placed in
various ways, their names, ages and forms, and their special ac-
tivities and characteristics. By expanding Himself in this way,
beautiful Krsna proved the statement samagra-jagad visnumayam:
‘Lord Visnu is all-pervading.”

PURPORT
As stated in the Brahma-samhita (5.33):

advaitam acyutam anddim ananta-ripam
adyam purdna-purusam nava-yauvanam ca

Krsna, param brahma, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is ddyam,
the beginning of everything; He is ddi-purusam, the ever-youthful
original person. He can expand Himself in more forms than one can
imagine, yet He does not fall down from His original form as Krsna;
therefore He is called Acyuta. This is the Supreme Personality of God-
head. Sarvam visnumayam jagat. Sarvam khalv idarh brahma. Krsna
thus proved that He is everything, that He can become everything, but
that still He is personally different from everything (mat-sthani sarva-
bhitdni na caharn tesv avasthitah). This is Krsna, who is understood by
acintya-bhedabheda-tattva philosophy. Pirnasya pirnam ddaya pir-
nam evavasisyate: Krsna is always complete, and although He can create
millions of universes, all of them full in all opulences, He remains as
opulent as ever, without any change (advaitam). This is explained by
different Vaisnava dcaryas through philosophies such as visuddhdadvaita,
visistadvaita and dvaitadvaita. Therefore one must learn about Krsna
from the dcdryas. Acaryavan puruso veda: one who follows the path of
the dcdryas knows things as they are. Such a person can know Krsna as
He is, at least to some extent, and as soon as one understands Krsna
(janma karma ca me divyam evar yo vetti tattvatah), one is liberated
from material bondage (tyaktva deham punar janma naiti mam eti so
"rjuna).
