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In the Bhagavad-gītā it is said that the Supreme Personality of Godhead is not visible due to the curtain That which covers the reality is mahāmāyā, or the external energy, which does not allow a conditioned Brahmā is not an ordinary conditioned soul. The conditioned soul not only becomes bewildered but is completely unable to understand. The curtain of yogamāyā was drawn so that Brahmā would not become more and more perplexed.

Brahmā realized that all the different forms of boys and calves transformed into Viṣṇu forms were not The calves and boys transformed into viṣṇu-mūrtis, or Viṣṇu forms, were not displays of viṣṇu-māyā, or In the heat there is the qualification of fire, namely warmth; and yet heat is not fire. The manifestation of the Viṣṇu forms of the boys and calves was not like the heat but was rather the example, the sun is reflected in many waterpots, but the reflections of the sun in the many pots are not

impersonalists, who can only understand, through studying the Upaniṣads, that the Absolute Truth is not matter, or is not materially restricted.

When the boys saw that the calves were not nearby, they became afraid for their safety, and they immediately Out of His great affection, Kṛṣṇa did not want His friends to give up their pleasing lunch engagement He therefore said, “My dear friends, you need not interrupt your lunch. Go on enjoying.

However, their offering was not exactly to their boys but to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who Therefore not only did Lord Kṛṣṇa give Yaśodā the chance to feed Him, but this time He gave the chance

Śukadeva Gosvāmī was very much encouraged when Mahārāja Parīkṣit asked him why the cowherd boys did not

The cows were so melted with affection for the calves that they did not care about the rough path from were pouring milk on the ground out of intense maternal affection for the calves, although they were not had their own calves, and the calves that were grazing beneath Govardhana Hill were larger; they were not

Not only did Brahmā fail to understand, but he was perplexed even to see the display which was being

with their calves and boys remained unchanged, although actually the original calves and boys were not Their affection increased naturally, even though the calves and boys were not their offspring.

He was really anxious, so he did not stay away very long; he came back after a moment (by his calculation Is it that they are not influenced by my mystic power? tried to understand who they were and how they were uninfluenced by his mystic power, but he could not wants to show potency in the presence of greater mystic power, he diminishes his own influence; he does not

been stolen by Brahmā and how Kṛṣṇa was concealing the incident by expanding Himself so people would not

He thought, “It was arranged by Kṛṣṇa, and even I could not check its mystic power.”

Lord Kṛṣṇa, therefore, in spite of searching for the calves, could not find them, and He even lost His

Therefore it was not very difficult for Him to expand Himself again into so many boys and calves.

Thus Śukadeva Gosvāmī began to explain why the killing of Aghāsura was not discussed until one year had

the boys; and as far as possible, the calves are kept separate from the cows, so that the calves do not

In order to convince Brahmā that all those calves and boys were not the original ones, the calves and