32 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 7, Ch. 1

sac-cid-dnanda-vigrahah: His form is eternal, blissful knowledge. Sac-
cid-dnanda-vigrahah, ananda-cinmaya-rasa and kaivalya are the same.

Krsna can expand Himself as Paramatma in the core of everyone’s
heart. In Bhagavad-gita (13.3) this is confirmed. Ksetrajriam capi marn
viddhi sarva-ksetresu bharata: the Lord is the Paramatma—the dtmd or
Superself of all individual souls. Therefore it must naturally be con-
cluded that He has no defective bodily conceptions. Although situated in
everyone’s body, He has no bodily conception of life. He is always free
from such conceptions, and thus He cannot be affected by anything in
relation to the material body of the jiva.

Krsna says in Bhagavad-gita (16.19):

tan aham dvisatah kriiran
samsaresu naradhaman

ksipamy ajasram asubhan
dsurisv eva yonisu

“Those who are envious and mischievous, who are the lowest among
men, are cast by Me into the ocean of material existence, into various
demoniac species of life.” Whenever the Lord punishes persons like
demons, however, such punishment is meant for the good of the condi-
tioned soul. The conditioned soul, being envious of the Supreme Per-
sonality of Godhead, may accuse Him, saying, “Krsna is bad, Krsna is a
thief” and so on, but Krsna, being kind to all living entities, does not
consider such accusations. Instead, He takes account of the conditioned
soul’s chanting of “Krsna, Krsna’’ so many times. He sometimes
punishes such demons for one life by putting them in a lower species,
but then, when they have stopped accusing Him, they are liberated in the
next life because of chanting Krsna’s name constantly. Blaspheming the
Supreme Lord or His devotee is not at all good for the conditioned soul,
but Krsna, being very kind, punishes the conditioned soul in one life for
such sinful activities and then takes him back home, back to Godhead.
The vivid example for this is Vrtrésura, who was formerly Citraketu
Maharaja, a great devotee. Because he derided Lord Siva, the foremost of
all devotees, he had to accept the body of a demon called Vrtra, but then
he was taken back to Godhead. Thus when Krsna punishes a demon or
conditioned soul, He stops that soul’s habit of blaspheming Him, and
