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transcendental body of the Lord as something like his own, and therefore
he cannot think of the Lord’s unlimited power of control, even though He
is not visible in the acting of the physical laws. The Lord is, however,
visible to the naked eyes of the people in general when Ile descends
Ilimself by His own personal potency. Lord Krsna incarnated Himself as
He is and played very wonderful parts as the Lord Himself, and the
Bhagavad-gita concerns such wonderful actions and knowledge, and yet
foolish men will not accept Lord Krsna as the Supreme Lord. Generally
they consider the infinitesimal and infinite features of the Lord because
they themselves are unable to become either the infinitesimal or the
infinite, but one should know that the infinite and infinitesimal sizes of
the Lord are not His highest glories. The most wonderful manifestation of
the Lord’s power is exhibited when the infinite Lord becomes visible to
our eyes as one of us. Yet Ilis activities are different from those of the
finite beings. To lift a mountain at the age of six years or to marry
sixteen thousand wives in Ilis prime of youth are some of the examples of
His infinite energy, but the midhas, after seeing them or hearing about
them, decry them as legendary and take the Lord as one of them. They
cannot understand that the Lord Sri Krsna, although in the form of a
human being by His own potency, is still the Supreme Lord with full
potency as supreme controller.

When, however, the miidhas give submissive aural reception to the
messages of the Lord as in the Smad. Bhagavad-gita or in the Srimad-
Bhdagavatam through the channel of disciplic succession, such miidhas also
becorhe devotees of the Lord by the grace of His pure devotees. And for
this reason only, either in the Bhagavad-gita or in the Srimad-Bhagavatam,
the pastimes of the Lord in the material world are delineated for the
benefit of those men with a poor fund of knowledge.

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