390 Syimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 2, Ch. 7
Factually there is no need of offering sacrifices to the demigods for
their services if one is engaged in the service of the Supreme Lord.
Sacrifices recommended in the Vedic literature for satisfaction of the
demigods are a sort of inducement to the sacrificers just to realize the
existence of higher authorities. The demigods are engaged by the Lord as
controlling deities of the material affairs, and according to the Bhagavad-
gita, when a demigod is worshiped the process is accepted as the indirect
method for worshiping the Supreme Lord. But when the Supreme Lord is
worshiped directly there is no need of worshiping the demigods or offer-
ing them sacrifices as is recommended in particular circumstances. Lord
Krsna therefore advised the inhabitants of the Vrajabhimi not to offer
any sacrifices to the heavenly King Indra. But Indra, not knowing
Lord Krsna in Vrajabhiimi, was angry at the inhabitants of Vrajabhimi
and tried to avenge the offense. But, competent as the Lord was, He saved
the inhabitants and animals of Vrajabhiimi by His personal energy and
proved definitely that anyone who is directly engaged as a devotee of the
Supreme Lord need not satisfy any other demigods, however great, even to
the level of Brahma or Siva. Thus this incidence definitely proved without a
doubt that Lord Krsna is the Personality of Godhead and He was so in all
circumstances, as a child on the lap of His mother, as a boy seven years
old, and as an old man of 125 years of age. In either case He was never on
the level of the ordinary man, and even in His advanced age He appeared a
young boy sixteen years old. These are the particular features of the
transcendental body of the Lord.
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meq ae fafa fraeeatTat
TWHeyA: RIIATATAT SAT |
setiaareat =8=|—-aaTETAt
edefecate fart acta 23H
kridan vane nisi nigdkara-rasmi-gauryam
rasonmukhah kala-padayata-mircchitena
uddipita-smara-rujam vraja-bhrd-vadhinam
hartur harisyati siro dhanadanugas ya
