86 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 3, Ch. 2
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prayuktan bhoja-rajena
mayinah kama-rupinah
lilaya vyanudat-tams tan
balah kridanakan iva

prayuktan—engaged; bhoja-rajena—by King Kamsa; mayinah—great
wizards; kama-rupinah—who could assume any form they liked; lilaya—in
the course of the pastimes; vyanudat—killed; tan—them; tan—as they came
there; balah—the child; kridanakan— dolls; iva—like that.

TRANSLATION

The great wizards who were able to assume any form were engaged by
the King of Bhoja, Kamsa, to kill Krsna, but in the course of His pastimes
the Lord killed them as easily as a child breaks dolls.

PURPORT

The atheist Kamsa wanted to kill Krsna just after His birth. He failed to
do so, but later on he got information that Krsna was living in Vrndavana
at the house of Nanda Maharaja. He therefore engaged many wizards who
could perform wonderful acts and assume any form they liked. All of
them appeared before the child Lord in various forms, like Agha, Baka,
Putana, lame Trnavarta, Dhenuka and Gardabha, and they tried to kill
the Lord at every opportunity. But one after another, all of them were
killed by the Lord as if He were only playing with dolls. Children piay
with toy lions, elephants, boars and many similar dolls, which are broken
by the children in the course of their playing with them. Before the
Almighty Lord, any powerful living being is just like a toy lion in the
hands of a playing child. No one can excel God in any capacity, and there-
fore no one can be equal to or greater than Him, nor can anyone attain
the stage of equality with God by any kind of endeavor. Jiiana, yoga and
bhakti are three recognized processes of spiritual realization. The
perfection of such processes can lead one to the desired goal of life in
spiritual value, but that does not mean that one can attain a perfection equal
to the Lord’s by such endeavors. The Lord is the Lord at every stage.
When He was playing just like a child on the lap of His mother Yagoda-
mayi or just like a cowherd boy with His transcendental friends, He
