Text 17] Remembrance of Lord Krsna 69
and how, although He is unlimitedly powerful, He fled from Mathura in
fear—all these bewildering incidences give me distress.
PURPORT
Because Lord Sri Krsna is the original person from whom everything
and everyone has emanated—aham sarvasya prabhavah (Bg. 10.8),
janmady asya yatah (Vs. 1.12)—nothing can be equal to or greater than
Him. The Lord is supremely perfect, and whenever He enacts His tran-
scendental pastimes as a son, a rival or an object of enmity, He plays the
part so perfectly that even pure devotees like Uddhava are bewildered.
For example, Uddhava knew perfectly well that Lord Sri Krsna is
eternally existent and can neither die nor disappear for good, yet he
lamented for Lord Krsna. All these events are perfect arrangements to
give perfection to His supreme glories. It is for enjoyment’s sake. When a
father plays with his little son and the father lays down on the floor as if
defeated by the son, it is just to give the little son pleasure, and nothing
more. Because the Lord is all-powerful, it is possible for Him to adjust
opposites such as birth and no birth, power and defeat, fear and fearless-
ness, etc. A pure devotee knows very well how it is possible for the Lord
to adjust opposite things, but he laments for the nondevotees who, not
knowing the supreme glories of the Lord, think of Him as imaginary simply
because there are so many apparently contradictory statements in the
scriptures. Factually there is nothing contradictory, but everything is
possible when we understand the Lord as the Lord and not as one of us,
with all our imperfection.
TEXT 17
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gala Fa: wat atag
wae aquired fiat: |
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Tara =| BaIgeaRaTat
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mated aISHarrHAAT 112911
dunoti cetah smarato mamaitad
yad aha padav abhivandya pitroh
tatamba kamsad uru-sankitanam
prasidatam no ’krta-niskrtinam
dunoti—it gives me pain; cetah—heart; smaratah—while thinking of;
mama—mvy; etat—this; yat—as much as; aha—said; padau— feet; abhivandya—
