Text 47] The Harisa-guhya Prayers 253

tam matvatmajam avyaktam
martya-lingam adhoksajam

gopikolikhale damna
babandha prakrtam yatha

The Personality of Godhead appeared in Vrndavana as the son of mother
Yasoda, who bound the Lord with rope just as an ordinary mother binds
a material child. There are actually no divisions of external and internal
for the form of the Supreme Personality of Godhead (sac-cid-Gnanda-
vigraha), but when He appears in His own form the unintelligent think
Him an ordinary person. Avajdnanti mam midha manusim tanum
Gsritam: although He comes in His own body, which never changes,
midhas, the unintelligent, think that the impersonal Brahman has
assumed a material body to come in the form of a person. Ordinary living
beings assume material bodies, but the Supreme Personality of Godhead
does not. Since the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the supreme con-
sciousness, it is stated herein that saryridna-matram, the original con-
sciousness, Krsna consciousness, was unmanifested before the creation,
although the consciousness of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the
origin of everything. The Lord says in Bhagavad-gita (2.12), ‘Never
was there a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor all these kings; nor in
the future shall any of us cease to be.” Thus the Lord’s person is the Ab-
solute Truth in the past, present and future.

In this regard, Madhvacarya quotes two verses from the Matsya
Purana:

nana-varno haris tv eko
bahu-Sirsa-bhujo riipat

asil laye tad-anyat tu
stksma-riipam sriyam vind

asuptah supta iva ca
militakso *bhavad dharih

anyatrandadardad visnau
Sris ca lineva kathyate
