Lightening the Burden of the World 127

beg is also Narayana. This is not authorized in the Vedic literature.
Narayana is the master of Laksmi, the goddess of fortune, and only fools
think that He somehow becomes poverty-stricken. Rascals say that
Narayana, Brahma, Siva, all the demigods, you, I, and everyone else are
all on the same level. This is foolishness. Narayana is asamaurdhva. This
means that no one can be equal to or greater than Him. Therefore Krsna
Himself, the original Narayana, says in Bhagavad-gita, mattah parataram
nanyat: ‘‘There is no one superior to Me.”’ Nor is anyone equal to Him.
The word asama means that no one is equal to Him, and anuirdhva means
that no one is greater than Him. This is the position of the Lord.

Narayana is not an ordinary living being. He is the Personality of God-
head Himself, and He has all the potencies of all the senses in all parts of
His transcendental body. An ordinary living being begets a child by
sexual intercourse and has no other means to beget a child than the one
designed for him. But Narayana is all-powerful, and therefore He can
beget a child from His navel. Every part of His body has full potency, as
explained in the Brahma-samhitd (5.32), angani yasya sakalendriya-vrtti-
manti. For example, I can see with my eyes, but Krsna can also eat with
His eyes. Foolish rascals will say, ‘‘You are offering food to Krsna, but
what has He eaten? It is still here. He has not eaten anything.’’ Such
people do not know that Krsna can eat just by seeing, for He can do any-
thing with any part of His transcendental body. When a washerman
refused to supply cloth to Krsna in Mathura, Lord Krsna displayed His
transcendental potency by cutting off the man’s head with His hand. How
was this possible? It was possible by the Lord’s omnipotence.

The Lord is complete and independent to do anything and everything
by His various potencies. This is explained in the beginning of Srimad-
Bhagavatam by the words abhijfiah svarat. The word sva-rat indicates that
He is self-sufficient, not dependent on anyone. That is the qualification of
God. Nowadays there are so many self-proclaimed incarnations of God,
but as soon as they have some toothache they immediately say,
“‘Qoooooh, doctor, help me. Save me.” If you are God, save yourself.
Why go to a doctor? Such people are rascals, and they make it very dif-
ficult to spread Krsna consciousness. The whole world is now overbur-
dened by such rascals and demons, and therefore the atom bomb is
waiting for them by the will of the Supreme.
