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By Jaya Gaursundar Dasa GauraVanacari<\/strong><\/p>\n The Lord\u2019s Potencies are inconceivable (acintya): That which cannot be thought of, understood, imagined or believed. While taking K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a and Balar\u0101ma to Mathura, and taking bath in the Yamun\u0101, what Akrura saw in the water was four-armed Lord V\u0101sudeva. His complexion was dark blue like a fresh raincloud, He wore yellow garments and He lay on the lap of thousand-hooded Ananta \u015ae\u1e63a. Lord V\u0101sudeva was receiving the prayers of perfected beings, celestial serpents and demons, and He was encircled by His personal attendants. Serving Him were His many potencies, such as \u015ar\u012b, Pu\u1e63\u1e6di and Il\u0101 while Brahm\u0101 and other demigods sang His praises. Akr\u016bra rejoiced at this vision: \u015briy\u0101 pus\u0323t\u0323y\u0101 gir\u0101 k\u0101nty\u0101 k\u012brty\u0101 tus\u0323t\u0323yelayorjay\u0101 vidyay\u0101vidyay\u0101 \u015bakty\u0101 m\u0101yay\u0101 ca nis\u0323evitam<\/i> ! Also in attendance were the Lord’s principal internal potencies \u2014 \u015ar\u012b, Pu\u1e63\u1e6di, G\u012bra, K\u0101nti, K\u012brti, Tus\u0323t\u0323i, Il\u0101 and \u016arj\u0101 \u2014 as were His material potencies Vidy\u0101, Avidy\u0101 and M\u0101y\u0101, and His internal pleasure potency, \u015aakti(SB 10.39.55). \u015ar\u012bla Vi\u015bvan\u0101tha Cakravart\u012b explains the Lord’s potencies mentioned in these verses: “\u015ar\u012b is the potency of wealth; Pu\u1e63\u1e6di that of strength; G\u012bra, knowledge; K\u0101nti, beauty; K\u012brti, fame; and Tus\u0323t\u0323i, renunciation. These are the Lord’s six opulances. Il\u0101 is His bh\u016b-\u015bakti, also known as sandhin\u012b, the internal potency of which the element earth is an expansion. \u016arj\u0101 is His internal potency for performing pastimes; she expands as the Tulas\u012b plant in this world. Vidy\u0101 and Avidy\u0101 [knowledge and ignorance] are external potencies who cause the living entities’ liberation and bondage, respectively. \u015aakti is His internal pleasure potency, hl\u0101din\u012b, and M\u0101y\u0101 is an internal potency who is the basis of Vidy\u0101 and Avidy\u0101. The word \u2018ca\u2019 implies the presence of the Lord’s marginal energy, the j\u012bva-\u015bakti. Being conducted by divine will, material nature, although inferior, acts so wonderfully in the construction and destruction of the cosmic manifestation. The Vedas<\/i> con\ufb01rm this as follows: m\u0101y\u0101\u1e41 tu prak\u1e5bti\u1e41 vidy\u0101n m\u0101yina\u1e41 tu mahe\u015bvaram.<\/i> \u201cAlthough m\u0101y\u0101<\/i> [illusion] is false or temporary, the background of m\u0101y\u0101<\/i> is the supreme magician, the Personality of Godhead, who is Mahe\u015bvara, the supreme controller.\u201d (\u015avet\u0101\u015bvatara Upani\u1e63ad<\/i> 4.10) hl\u0101diny\u0101 sa\u1e41vid-\u0101\u015bli\u1e63\u1e6da\u1e25 sac-cid-\u0101nanda \u012b\u015bvara\u1e25<\/i> –The Supreme Personality of Godhead, the supreme controller, is always full of transcendental bliss and is accompanied by the potencies known as hl\u0101din\u012b and sa\u1e41vit. (CC Madhya 18.114)<\/p>\n Generally yog\u012bs are aspiring after many siddhis (powers) \u2014the yogic perfections. The inhabitants of all the topmost planetary systems beyond Maharloka, like Brahmaloka and Dhruvaloka (the polestar), are empowered with eightfold achievements of mystic perfection. The power of becoming small like a particle (an\u0323im\u0101-siddhi), or lighter than a soft feather (laghim\u0101-siddhi), to get anything and everything from anywhere and everywhere (pr\u0101pti-siddhi), to become heavier than the heaviest (mahim\u0101-siddhi), to act freely even to create something wonderful or to annihilate anything at will (\u012b\u015bitva-siddhi), to control all material elements (va\u015bitva-siddhi), to possess such power as will never be frustrated in any desire (pr\u0101k\u0101mya-siddhi) and to assume any shape or form one may even whimsically desire (k\u0101m\u0101vas\u0101yit\u0101-siddhi). The inhabitants of the earth cannot move even to the nearest planet except by mechanical vehicles like spacecraft, but the highly talented inhabitants of such higher planets can do everything very easily. But the ultimate source of all these siddhis- mystic powers is yoge\u015bvara K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a who is \u0101tm\u0101r\u0101ma, fully self-satisfied. <\/p>\n Lord Caitanya explained that not only K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a Loka but also even V\u1e5bnd\u0101vana, Lord K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a\u2019s abode on this planet, cannot be estimated as far as potency is concerned. From one point of view, V\u1e5bnd\u0101vana is estimated to be about sixteen kro\u015bas, thirty-two square miles in area, yet in one part of this V\u1e5bnd\u0101vana all the Vaiku\u1e47\u1e6dhas exist. How it is all the Vaiku\u1e47\u1e6dhas exist there is beyond material calculation. Thus Caitanya Mah\u0101prabhu proclaimed the potencies and opulances of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a to be unlimited. Whatever He told San\u0101tana Gosv\u0101m\u012b was only partial, but by such a partial presentation one can try to imagine the whole. While Lord Caitanya was speaking to San\u0101tana Gosv\u0101m\u012b about the opulances of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, He was deep in ecstasy. In that transcendental state He cited a verse from \u015ar\u012bmad-Bh\u0101gavatam (3.2.21) in which Uddhava, after the disappearance of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, told Vidura: svaya\u1e41 tv as\u0101my\u0101ti\u015bayas tryadh\u012b\u015ba\u1e25 sv\u0101r\u0101jya-lak\u1e63my\u0101pta-samasta-k\u0101ma\u1e25 bali\u1e41 haradbhi\u015b cira-lokap\u0101lai\u1e25 kir\u012b\u1e6da-ko\u1e6dye\u1e0dita-p\u0101dap\u012b\u1e6dha<\/i>\u1e25 — Lord \u015ar\u012b K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a is the Lord of all kinds of threes and is independently supreme by achievement of all kinds of fortune. He is worshiped by the eternal maintainers of the creation, who offer Him the paraphernalia of worship by touching their millions of helmets to His feet. Lord \u015ar\u012b K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a is the Supreme Lord of the three worlds, the three qualities of material nature and the three puru\u1e63as (K\u0101ra\u1e47odaka\u015b\u0101y\u012b, Garbhodaka\u015b\u0101y\u012b and K\u1e63\u012brodaka\u015b\u0101y\u012b Vi\u1e63\u1e47u). There are innumerable universes, and in each and every universe there are different manifestations of Brahm\u0101, Vi\u1e63\u1e47u and Rudra. Besides that, there is the \u015ae\u1e63a-m\u016brti who bears all the universes on His hoods. And Lord K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a is the Lord of all of them. As the incarnation of Manu, He is the original source of all Manus in innumerable universes. He is the Lord of the three principal potencies, namely cit-\u015bakti, m\u0101y\u0101-\u015bakti and ta\u1e6dasth\u0101-\u015bakti, and He is the complete master of six kinds of fortune (opulances) namely, wealth, strength, fame, beauty, knowledge and renunciation. From revealed scriptures it is understood that K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a lives in three transcendental places. The most confidential residence of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a is Goloka V\u1e5bnd\u0101vana. It is there that He stays with His father, mother and friends, exhibits His transcendental relationships and bestows His mercy amongst His eternal entourage. As stated in Brahma-sa\u1e41hit\u0101 (5.43), all the Vaikuntha planets in the spiritual sky (known as Vi\u1e63\u1e47uloka) are situated in the planet known as K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47aloka, Goloka V\u1e5bnd\u0101vana. The associates of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a are also full with six opulances.<\/p>\n \u015ar\u012bmad Bh\u0101gavatam states: tasra\u1e25 ko\u1e6dya\u1e25 sahasr\u0101\u1e47\u0101m a\u1e63\u1e6d\u0101\u015b\u012bti-\u015bat\u0101ni ca \u0101san yadu-kul\u0101c\u0101ry\u0101\u1e25 kum\u0101r\u0101\u1e47\u0101m iti \u015brutam<\/i><\/p>\n[In Dwarka] the Yadu family [had so many children] that they employed 38,800,000 teachers to educate them. The next verse says lak\u1e63e\u1e47\u0101ste sa \u0101huka\u1e25 \u2014 Maharaja Ugrasena had an entourage of thirty trillion attendants. Prabhupada gives an even more fantastic figure. It is said that King Ugrasena alone had ten quadrillion soldiers as personal bodyguards. \u201cOne quadrillion is equivalent to a thousand million millions \u2014 a one with 15 zeros following it. The world population today is estimated to be 7.148 billion persons. . In other words, according to Srila Prabhupada, King Ugrasena had over than 100,000 times more personal bodyguards than the entire present population of the earth planet. And aside from that, there were also cooks, laborers, priests, housewives, children, soldiers, and the rest of a variegated population of Dwarka. <\/p>\n Srila Vishwanath Chakravarti T\u0323h\u0101kura offers an explanation in his commentary to the \u015ar\u012bmad Bh\u0101gavatam 10.90.42 -the term \u201cayut\u0101n\u0101m\u201d means. The number here is 3 followed by thirteen zeros (30,000,000,000,000). The present tense term \u201c\u0101ste\u201d (are) in this verse is used instead of the past tense \u201c\u0101s\u012bd\u201d (were) and this indicates that this great number is being spoken of by Srila \u015aukadeva Goswami from the remembrance of the continuous ongoing nitya-l\u012bl\u0101 of the Lord [in Goloka Vrindavan, and not from the pastimes that happened on earth]\n \u015ar\u012bmad Bh\u0101gavatam 10.12.3, Srila Vishwanath Chakravarti Thakur says that the number of Krishna\u2019s cows exceeded one followed by seventeen zeros. That\u2019s in the realm of one hundred quadrillion cows and that was just the young calves, the older cows far exceeded that amount. In his commentary on Bh\u0101gavatam (10.12.3), Srila Jiva Goswami says that the boys and calves of Vrindavan together could not be counted. If the number of calves that they herded in the forest was beyond calculation, how many more calves must have been left back in Vraja–the small calves taking milk from their mothers, as well as the mothers of the calves that went to the forest, other cows, the elder male and female calves, the bulls, whose numbers kept increasing daily by the power of Gopal, and the buffalo as well? Thus the animals, cowherd and cowherd women were unlimited in number. One should not argue that such a large number of cows could not possibly fit into the thirty-two square mile area of Vrindavan, because the dh\u0101ma is unlimited by the inconceivable energy of the Lord. Even a small portion of the holy dh\u0101ma is sufficient to accommodate billions of universes each measuring fifty million miles in diameter. Krishna showed this to Brahma. The Laghu Bh\u0101gavat\u0101m\u1e5bta says there is no question of impediments, obstacles or limitations because the Lord, his associates, and his holy dh\u0101ma have inconceivable power (acintya-\u015baktih). Srila Prabhupada similarly writes. We may speak of hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions, billions, trillions, tens of trillions, and so on, but when we go further to speak of numbers impossible for us to count, we are speaking of unlimited numbers. Such unlimited numbers are indicated here by the word asa\u1e45khy\u0101tai\u1e25. Krishna is unlimited, his potency is unlimited, his cows and calves are unlimited, and His space is unlimited. Therefore, we should not consider the statements of this verse to be mythological. They are factual, but inconceivable. Therefore, in Bhagavad-g\u012bt\u0101, He is described as Para Brahman. The word Brahman means unlimited and K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a is the Supreme Unlimited, Para Brahman.<\/p>\n If we study Krishna\u2019s potency with our limited knowledge, that potency will never be possible to understand. ata\u1e25 \u015br\u012b-k\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a-n\u0101m\u0101di na bhaved gr\u0101hyam indriyai\u1e25 <\/i>[Padma Pur\u0101\u1e47a quoted in CC. Madhya 17.136] Our blunt senses cannot perceive how he could keep an unlimited number of calves and cows and have unlimited space in which to do so. Although eternity is described as having no past or future, there is still sequence (for there are l\u012bl\u0101s, pastimes): and knowledge, bliss, and beauty eternally increases. We cannot conceive how realm in which transcendental time, which has neither past nor future, allows for activities-pastimes-and for ever-increasing beauty, joy, and knowledge. A thousand yugas together equals four million three hundred and twenty thousand years. The Bh\u0101gavatam describes that the duration of those thousand yugas entered into a single twelve-hour night in Vrindavan during which the gop\u012bs danced with Krishna. Srila Vishwanath Chakravarti Thakur compares this inconceivable expansion of time to the fact that many universes fit within the, thirty-two square miles range of earthly Vrindavan. Similarly, he says, one may consider how Mother Yasoda was unable to encircle the abdomen of her child Krishna using many, many ropes, or how on another occasion Krishna displayed many universes in his mouth to Mother Yasoda. Srila R\u016bpa Goswami writes in his Laghu Bh\u0101gavat\u0101m\u1e5bta (1.5.515): ata\u1e25 prabho\u1e25 priy\u0101\u1e47\u0101\u1e41 ca dh\u0101mna\u015b ca samayasya ca <\/i> avicintya-prabh\u0101vatv\u0101d atra ki\u1e41 ca na durgha\u1e6dam <\/i><\/p>\n In Gokula, nothing is impossible for the Lord, the devotees, the abode, and everything in the abode, by the power of the Lord\u2019s inconceivable energy. Here are some references indicating the infinite nature of the material and spiritual sky: \u201cEvery universe is covered by seven layers — earth, water, fire, air, sky, the total energy and false ego — each ten times greater than the previous one. There are innumerable universes besides this one, and although they are within the atom unlimitedly large, they move about like atoms in You. Brahma-Sa\u1e41hit\u0101 says, a\u1e47\u1e0d\u0101ntara-stha-param\u0101\u1e47u-cay\u0101ntara-stham: the Lord exists within the gigantic universe and Therefore You are called unlimited [ananta].\u201d \u015ar\u012bmad Bh\u0101gavatam 6.16.37 When the material creation is unlimitedly large then what to speak of the spiritual sky? The all-powerful Lord is situated in Goloka the wonderful transcendental abode, which is free of old age, and death, five hundred million yojanas (four billion miles) above Vaikuntha in the spiritual sky. And Vaikuntha is ten million yojanas (eighty million miles) away from Brahmaloka of the material world. Once upon a time Sri Narayana \u1e5a\u1e63i told the story to N\u0101rada in which Lord Brahma, Lord Siva and Yamar\u0101ja travelling by speed of a mind went to Vaikuntha Loka, to see Lord Hari and expressed their desire to see Goloka. Lord Hari gave directions to go to Goloka. Following the Lord Hari\u2019s instructions, the demigods, travelling at the speed of mind, penetrating seven layers of walls of this universe and went to the shore of the Viraj\u0101 River (also known as Causal Ocean) which lies between the spiritual world and the material world. The river is free from the influence of the three modes of material nature; therefore it is called Viraj\u0101. The prefix \u2018vi\u2019 means vigata (\u201ccompletelyeradicated\u201d), and rajas<\/i> means \u201cthe influence of the material world\u201d (CC M.19.153). Demigods crossed to the farther shore, where they saw a beautiful mountain with a hundred peaks and many millions of youthful gop\u012bs at rasa dance circle. Then they saw V\u1e5bnd\u0101vana forest where Radha and K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a enjoyed pastimes, which was filled with kalpa-vrksa trees. By Radha\u2019s order protected by five hundred million gop\u012bs, filled with thirty-two forests the beautiful secluded V\u1e5bnd\u0101vana where there are jewel homes of five hundred million gopas whose forms were like Sri Krsna\u2019s. After seeing beautiful V\u1e5bnd\u0101vana, the (three) demigods went to circular Goloka, which was ten million yojanas in size, surrounded by a jewel wall with four gates protected by many gopa gatekeepers, there were five hundred million \u0101\u015bramas of Lord Krsna\u2019s servants. All the \u0101\u015bramas were studded with jewels and filled with many delightful things. Then they saw one billion \u0101\u015bramas of Lord Krsna\u2019s devotees, one hundred million \u0101\u015bramas more beautifully made of precious jewels, of Lord Krsna\u2019s associates, ten million jewel \u0101\u015bramas of the Lord\u2019s intimate associates, whose forms were like Lord Krsna\u2019s. Then 320 million jewel \u0101\u015bramas of gop\u012bs purely devoted to Sri Radha, one hundred million beautiful jewel \u0101\u015bramas of these gop\u012bs\u2019 maidservants, and one billion beautiful \u0101\u015bramas of those who, purified by austerities in a hundred births, became very firm devotees on earth in Bharata-var\u1e63a, awake or asleep rapt in meditation on Lord Hari, and chanting holy names of Radha-K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a! day and night. After gazing at this wonderful place, the (three) demigods went a little further and happily saw a beautiful and eternal banyan tree, five yojanas across and twice as many high, with a thousand trunks and countless branches, and beautiful with jewel platforms and many ripe jewel fruits. At the root of that tree the demigods saw many cowherd boys who had forms like Lord K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, and who were dressed in yellow garments, attached to playing, handsome, decorated with jewel ornaments, and all of whose limbs were anointed with sandal paste. After going a short distance they saw the beautiful asrama of Sri Radha that was a great circle of six gavyutis, (gavyuti is equal to two miles). Ashram had a hundred palaces, shone with the splendor of many jewels, was made of the best of the best of priceless jewels, and a series of seven gates that led, one after the other, to a place of sixteen gates. Then they went a small distance behind that asrama. There they saw a billion \u0101\u015bramas of many gopas and gop\u012bs. After thus seeing all of Goloka, the demigods returned to the beautiful circle of V\u1e5bnd\u0101vana forest. They saw beautiful dancing, heard beautiful, beautifully rhythmic, nectar songs there about the glories of Sri, Sri Radha-K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, the demigods fainted. Regaining consciousness in a moment, and their thoughts now fixed on Lord K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, the demigods gazed at the many beauties and wonders there in place after place. They saw all the beautiful gop\u012bs dressed in many different kinds of garments, some with Mridangas in their hands, some with Vinas in their hands. Going a little further, they saw the \u0101\u015bramas of Radha\u2019s thirty-three gop\u012b friends, and their homes, which were made of jewels. These are the boundaries of the universe and what lies beyond the universe i.e. the Spiritual World. All the universes exist in Him and He is present in His fullness in every one of the atoms that are scattered throughout the universe, at one and the same time. Such is the primeval Lord whom I adore.\u201d Brahma Sa\u1e41hit\u0101 5.35.Lord Brahma indicates here that each unlimited universe is springing from Lord K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, and that each universe is composed of infinite atoms, yet in each atom the same unlimitedly potent Govinda exists from whom more unlimited universes could expand. This phenomena that Lord Brahma describes was experienced by Mother Yasoda (\u015ar\u012bmad Bh\u0101gavatam 10.8) on the occasion of her looking into Krsna\u2019s mouth to see if He had been eating dirt and saw in His mouth the whole cosmic manifestation including her looking into His mouth. It was also experienced by Markandeya \u1e5a\u1e63i (\u015ar\u012bmad Bh\u0101gavatam 12.9 and Mahabharata, Vana Parva: Markandeya-Samasya Parva, 188) who after asking for the benediction of experiencing the Lord\u2019s illusory energy was floating in the pralaya ocean for millions of years and then saw a small child sucking its toe under a banyan tree. The child inhaled Markandeya \u1e5a\u1e63i into Himself wherein Markandeya \u1e5a\u1e63i found himself inside another universe where everything was normal. And, after trying unsuccessfully for millions of years to find the limits of this new universe was exhaled back into the pitch darkness of the Pralaya Ocean into the presence of the baby (K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a) sucking His toe under the banyan tree – vatasya patrasya pute say\u0101nam b\u0101lam mukundam manas\u0101 smar\u0101mi. <\/i> Even within the boundary of material universe above Brahmaloka is the planet of the cows, which is protected by the Sandhyas. O K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, that great planet is infinitely expansive, pervading the unlimited spiritual sky.\u201d Brhad Bh\u0101gavat\u0101m\u1e5bta 3.7.81. This planet of cows known as Surabhi loka is mentioned in pastime of Lord K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a lifting Govardhana for seven successive days until Indra finally understood K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a\u2019s mystic power and ordered the clouds to withdraw. Embarrassed by his defeat Indra went to Lord Brahma who chastised him and advised to go to Surabhi loka planet of cows and get the help of cow Surabhi. Indra, along with the cow Surabhi, then performed a bathing ceremony for K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, using the water of the heavenly Ganges and the milk of mother Surabhi. Indra and the cow took this opportunity to bestow upon the Lord the name Govinda <\/p>\n The \u0101tm\u0101 is only one ten thousandth of the tip of a hair in size, and it is thus absurd to suggest that we could ever truly comprehend Lord Krsna\u2019s unlimited potencies. The finite cannot comprehend the infinite, unless the infinite gives its blessings (Bhagavad-Gita 10.10): To those who are constantly devoted to serving Me with love, I give the understanding by which they can come to Me. te\u1e63\u0101\u1e41 satata-yukt\u0101n\u0101\u1e41 bhajat\u0101\u1e41 pr\u012bti-p\u016brvakam The Lord\u2019s Potencies are inconceivable (acintya): That which cannot be thought of, understood, imagined or believed. While taking K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a and Balar\u0101ma to Mathura, and taking bath in the Yamun\u0101, what Akrura saw in the water was four-armed Lord V\u0101sudeva. His complexion was dark blue like a fresh raincloud, He wore yellow garments and He lay on the lap of thousand-hooded Ananta \u015ae\u1e63a. Lord V\u0101sudeva was receiving the prayers of perfected beings, celestial serpents and demons, and He was encircled by His personal attendants. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72135"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72138,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72135\/revisions\/72138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\ndad\u0101mi buddhi-yoga\u1e41 ta\u1e41\u2026<\/i> However, the analogies are somewhat useful in appreciating the concept of infinity. K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a can only be understood, through S\u0101stra-\u201cS\u0101stra yonit vat\u201d – Vedanta Sutra 1.1.3, not by mental speculation of demons. When Lord Nrsimha appeared from the pillar with tumultuous noise bewildered Hira\u1e47yaka\u015bipu and other demons could not find the source of that noise even though they were right near the pillar. The sound was so powerful it seemed that the covering of the universe would crack. In contrast to demons, when demigods heard from a distance they realized that no one can make such loud noise except the Supreme Personality of Godhead. What to speak of the Supreme Lord but by the mercy of the Lord, His pure devotees also can display some power. For example, Bharata Mah\u0101r\u0101ja in the body of a br\u0101hma\u1e47a, Ja\u1e0da Bharata, remained like dull, deaf and dumb so much so that when he was brought before the goddess K\u0101l\u012b to be killed as a sacrifice, he never protested but remained silent. However, due to the Brahman effulgence of Ja\u1e0da Bharata, the deity of, the goddess Bhadra K\u0101l\u012b was fractured. He was a God-realized soul therefore, the goddess Bhadra K\u0101l\u012b became immediately alarmed due to the mistreatment of a devotee and emerged from the fractured deity to give protection to the Lord\u2019s devotee. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Jaya Gaursundar Dasa<\/strong><\/p>\n