2.Beyond the Senses

maya-javanikacchannam
ajnadhoksajam avyayam

na laksyase muidha-drsa
nato natya-dharo yatha

Being beyond the range of limited
sense perception, You are the eternally
irreproachable factor covered by the cur-
tain of deluding energy. You are invisi-
ble to the foolish observer, exactly as
an actor dressed as a player is not
recognized.

—Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.8.19

In the Bhagavad-gita Lord Sri Krsna affirms that less intelligent per-
sons mistake Him to be an ordinary man like us, and thus they deride
Him. The same is confirmed herein by Queen Kunti. The less intelligent
persons are those who rebel against the authority of the Lord. Such per-
sons are known as asuras. The asuras cannot recognize the Lord’s au-
thority. When the Lord Himself appears among us, as Rama, Nrsithha,
Varaha, or in His original form as Krsna, He performs many wonderful
acts which are humanly impossible. As we shall find in the Tenth Canto
of this great literature, Lord Sri Krsna exhibited His humanly impossible
activities even from the days of His lying on the lap of His mother. He
