146 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 6, Ch. 9
truthful. When the conditioned souls are liberated and sheltered
at Your lotus feet after roving throughout the material world for
many millions of years, they attain the highest success of life.
Therefore, O Lord, O Supreme Personality of Godhead, we offer
our respectful obeisances at Your lotus feet.

PURPORT

The demigods certainly wanted Lord Visnu to relieve their anxiety,
but now they directly approach Lord Krsna, for although there is no dif-
ference between Lord Krsna and Lord Visnu, Krsna descends to this
planet in His Vasudeva feature for the purpose of paritrandya
sadhinam vinasdya ca duskriam—protecting His devotees and annihi-
lating the miscreants. Demons, or atheists, always disturb the demigods,
or devotees, and therefore Krsna descends to punish the atheists and
demons and fulfill the desire of His devotees. Krsna, being the original
cause of everything, is the Supreme Person, above even Visnu and
Narayana, although there is no difference between these different forms
of the Lord. As explained in Brahma-samhita (5.46):

diparcir eva hi dasantaram abhyupetya
dipdyate vivrta-hetu-samana-dharma
yas tadrg eva hi ca visnutaya vibhati
govindam 4di-purusam tam aham bhajami
Krsna expands Himself as Visnu the way a bright candle kindles another.
Although there is no difference between the power of one candle and
another, Krsna is compared to the original candle.

The word mrsta-yasase is significant herein because Krsna is always
famous for relieving His devotee from danger. A devotee who has
sacrificed everything for the service of Krsna and whose only source of
relief is the Lord is known as akiricana.

As expressed in the prayers offered by Queen Kunti, the Lord is
akincana-vitta, the property of such a devotee. Those who are liberated
from the bondage of conditioned life are elevated to the spiritual world,
where they achieve five kinds of liberation—sdyujya, salokya, sdripya,
sdrsti and sdmipya. They personally associate with the Lord in five
