88 TEACHINGS OF QUEEN KUNTI
and activity. All these statements prove without any question that the
Lord’s activities, forms, and deeds are all inconceivable to our limited
thinking power, and because He is inconceivably powerful, everything is
possible in Him. Therefore no one can calculate Him exactly; every ac-
tion of the Lord is bewildering to the common man. He cannot be under-
stood by the Vedic knowledge, but He can be easily understood by the
pure devotees because they are intimately related with Him. The devo-
tees therefore know that although He appears among the animals, He is
not an animal or a man or a rsi or a fish. He is eternally the Supreme
Lord, in all circumstances.

Kunti addresses Krsna as visvatman, the vital force of the universe. In
everyone’s body there is a vital force. That vital force is the dtma—the
living being, the living entity, the soul. It is because of the presence of
that vital force, the soul, that the whole body works. Similarly, there is a
supreme vital force. That supreme vital force is Krsna, the Supreme Per-
sonality of Godhead. Therefore, where is the question of His taking
birth? In Bhagavad-gitd (4.9) the Lord says:

janma karma ca me divyam
evam yo vetti tattvatah
tyaktva deham punar janma
naiti mam eti so ’rjuna
“One who knows the transcendental nature of My appearance and ac-
tivities does not, upon leaving the body, take his birth again in this ma-
terial world, but attains My eternal abode, O Arjuna.”

In this verse the word divyam especially indicates that the Lord’s ap-
pearance and activities are spiritual. And elsewhere in the Bhagavad-gita
it is said, ajo ‘pi sann avyayatma. The word aja means ‘‘unborn,”’ and
avyayatma means “‘not subject to destruction.’’ This is the nature of
Krsna, whose transcendental nature is further described by Kuntidevi in
her prayers to the Lord.

In the beginning of her prayers, Kuntidevi said to the Lord, ‘‘You are
within, and You are without, but still You are invisible.”’ Krsna is within
everyone’s heart (isvarah sarva-bhutandm hrd-dese ’rjuna tisthati, sarvasya
caham hrdi sannivistah). Indeed, He is within everything, even within the
atom (anddantara-stha-paramanu-cayantara-stham). Krsna is within and
He is also without. Thus Krsna showed Arjuna His external feature as the
visva-rupa, the gigantic cosmic manifestation. ;

This external body of Krsna is described in the Srimad-Bhagavatam.
