4. Approaching Krsna,
The All-pervading Truth

krsnadya vasudevaya
devaki-nandanaya ca

nanda-gopa-kumaraya
govindaya namo namah

Let me therefore offer my respectful
obeisances unto the Lord, who has be-
come the son of Vasudeva, the pleasure
of Devaki, the boy of Nanda and the
other cowherd men of Vmdavana, and
the enlivener of the cows and the
senses.

—Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.8.21

The Lord, being thus unapproachable by any material assets, out of
unbounded and causeless mercy descends on the earth as He is in order
to show His special mercy upon His unalloyed devotees and to diminish
the upsurges of the demoniac persons. Queen Kunti specifically adores
the incarnation, or descent, of Lord Krsna above all other incarnations be-
cause in this particular incarnation He is more approachable. In the Rama
incarnation He remained a king’s son from His very childhood, but in the
incarnation of Krsna, although He was the son of a king, He at once left
the shelter of His real father and mother (King Vasudeva and Queen

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