Text 12] Remembrance of Lord Krsna 63

supreme; padam—ultimate stand; bhusana—ornament; bhusanangam—of
the ornaments.

TRANSLATION

The Lord appeared in the mortal world by His internal potency,
yoga-maya. He came in His eternal form, which is just suitable for His
pastimes. These pastimes were wonderful for everyone, even for those
proud of their own opulence, including the Lord Himself in His form as
the Lord of Vaikuntha. Thus His [Sri Krgna’s] transcendental body is the
ornament of all ornaments.

PURPORT

In conformity with the Vedic hymns (nityo nityanam cetanas cetananam),
the Personality of Godhead is ‘more excellent than all other living
beings within all the universes in the material world. He is the chief of
all living entities; no one can surpass Him or be equal to Him in wealth,
strength, fame, beauty, knowledge or renunciation. When Lord Krsna was
within this universe, He seemed to be a human being because He appeared
in a manner just suitable for His pastimes in the mortal world. He did not
appear in human society in His Vaikuntha feature with four hands because
that would not have been suitable for His pastimes. But in spite of His
appearing as a human being, no one was or is equal to Him in any respect
in any of the six different opulences. Everyone is more or less proud of his
opulence in this world, but when Lord Krsna was in human society, He
excelled all His contemporaries within the universe.

When the Lord’s pastimes are visible to the human eye, they are called
prakata, and when they are not visible they are called aprakata. In fact, the
Lord’s pastimes never stop, just as the sun never leaves the sky. The sun is
always in its right. orbit in the sky, but it is sometimes visible and
sometimes invisible to our limited vision. Similarly, the pastimes of the
Lord are always current in one universe or another, and when Lord Krsna
disappeared from the transcendental abode of Dvaraka, it was simply a
disappearance from the eyes of the people there. It should not be
misunderstood that His transcendental body, which is just suitable for the
pastimes in the mortal world, is in any way inferior to His different
expansions in the Vaikunthalokas. His body manifested in the material
world is transcendental par excellence in the sense that His pastimes in the
mortal world excel His mercy displayed in the Vaikunthalokas. In the
Vaikunthalokas the Lord is merciful toward the liberated or nitya-mukta
living entities, but in His pastimes in the mortal world He is merciful even
