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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