68 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 3, Ch. 2
Personality of Godhead.” Some said, ‘He is an incarnation of Narayana,”
and others said, “Ile is the incarnation of Ksirodakagayi Visnu.” But
actually He is the original Supreme Personality of Godhead—Krsnas tu
bhagavan svayam—and Narayana, the purusas and all other incarnations
accompany Him to function as different parts of His pastimes. Mahat-
aisa-yuktah indicates that He is accompanied by the purusas, who create
the mahat-tattva. It is confirmed in the Vedic hymns, mahantam vibhum
atmanam.

Lord Krsna appeared, just like electricity, when there was friction
between Karnsa and Vasudeva and Ugrasena. Vasudeva and Ugrasena were
the Lord’s devotees, and Kamsa, a representative of the karmis and jnanis,
was a nondevotee. Krsna, as He is, is compared to the sun. He first appeared
from the ocean of the womb of Devaki, and gradually He satisfied the
inhabitants of the places surrounding Mathura, just as the sun enlivens the
lotus flower in the morning. Gradually rising up to the meridian of
Dvaraka, the Lord set like the sun, placing everything in darkness, as
described by Uddhava.

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at Sqaataqaa | ae
frerad TERA |
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at a araistoraiey aa
gag saadtagaeadth: 124i
mam khedayaty etad ajasya janma-
vidambanam yad-vasudeva-gehe
vraje ca vaso ’ri-bhayad iva svayam
purad vyavatsid yad-ananta-viryah

mam—to me; khedayati—gives me distress; etat—this; ajasya—of the
unborn; janma—birth; vidambanam— bewildering; yat—that; vasudeva-gehe—
in the home of Vasudeva; vraje—in Vyndavana; ca—also; vasah—inhabita-
tion; ari-enemy; bhayat—because of fear; iva—as if; svayam—Himself;
purat—from Mathura Puri; vyavatsit—fled; yat—one who is; ananta-
viryah—unlimitedly powerful.

TRANSLATION

When I think of Lord Krgna—how He was born in the prison house of
Vasudeva although He is unborn, how He went away from His father’s
protection to Vraja and lived there incognito out of fear of the enemy,
