84 Teachings of Lord Chaitanya

with Your innumerable transcendental potencies and energies and qualities.”
Lord Brahma informed Narada that, of all the great sages who were born
before ‘Narada, including he himself; none can understand the potential
strength and energy of the Supreme Lord. So he admitted that if even Ananta,
who has thousands of tongues, tries to estimate the Lord’s potential energy,
he will fail.

Brahma prayed, therefore: “My Lord, You are unlimited, and no one
has estimated the limit to Your potencies. I think that even Your Lordship
does not know the range of Your potential energies. An unlimited number of
planets float in the sky just like atoms, and great Vedantists who are engaged
in research to find You find everything different from You, and at last they
decide that You are everything.”

When Lord Krishna was within this Universe, Brahma played a trick
on Him in order to confirm that the cowherd boy in Vrindaban was actually
Krishna. By his power he stole all the cows and calves, and the friends of
Krishna, who were éngaged in herding the animals. But when he returned
from hiding them.to see the result, he saw that Krishna was playing with the
same cows and calves and cowherd boys; because by His Vaikuntha potency
He had expanded all the stolen cows, calves and friends. He saw millions and
billions of them, and ‘he also saw millions and billions of tons of cane and
fruit, and lotus flowers and horns. And all the cowherd boys were decorated
with different clothes:and ornaments, and nobody could count their vast
number. Brahma saw that each of the cowherd boys had become a four-
handed Narayan, like the predominating deity of each Brahmanda, and he
saw that innumerable Brahmas also were engaged in offering obeisances to the
Lord. He also saw that all of them were emanating from the body of Krishna,
and after a second they were also entering into the body of Krishna. Brahma
became struck with wonder by this extraordinary feat of Krishna, and in his
prayer he admitted that anybody and everybody could say that he knows
about Krishna—but so far as he was concerned, he did not know anything
about Krishna. “My dear Lord,” he said, “the potencies and opulences which
You have exhibited just now are beyond the capacity of my mind and under-
standing.” .

Lord Chaitanya then explained that not-only Krishna Loka, but even
Krishna’s Abode on this planet, known as Vrindaban, cannot be estimated
in potency. Vrindaban is estimated as thirty-two Scriptural miles, but even
though Vrindaban in India is thirty-two miles, yet in some part of Vrindaban
all the Vaikunthas exist. The area of the present Vrindaban consists of twelve
