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In pursuance of this Vedic principle, Lord Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma used to offer Their obeisances to Their

Lord Kṛṣṇa then gave a nice example in terms of the five material elements. Similarly, the living entities – beginning from Lord Kṛṣṇa and including millions of Viṣṇu forms, and It is therefore confirmed in the Upaniṣads that Kṛṣṇa, or the Supreme Lord, is the chief among all living

Vasudeva said, “This material world is like a great flowing river, and its waves are the three material modes of nature – goodness, passion and ignorance. This material body, as well as the senses, the faculties of thinking, feeling and willing and the stages of distress, happiness, attachment and lust – all are different products of these three qualities of is subjected to the continuous process of birth and death, without a chance of being freed.”

After this, Bali Mahārāja brought valuable garments, ornaments, sandalwood pulp, betel nuts, lamps and principles and offered his riches and body unto Their lotus feet. King Bali was feeling such transcendental pleasure that he repeatedly grasped the Lords’ lotus feet and kept them on his chest, and sometimes he put them on the top of his head. Tears of love and affection began to flow from his eyes, and all his bodily hairs stood on end.

After thus informing the king of the demons, Kṛṣṇa stopped speaking, and Bali Mahārāja understood the He duly worshiped the Lord, and thereafter Lord Kṛṣṇa and Lord Balarāma took away the six conditioned souls and returned to the city of Dvārakā, where Lord Kṛṣṇa presented them as little babies before His

After hearing Their mother speak in this way, Lord Balarāma and Kṛṣṇa immediately called for the assistance Now when this great devotee, Bali Mahārāja, saw that Lord Balarāma and Kṛṣṇa had come to his planet, As soon as he saw Lord Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma in his presence, he and all his family members stood up from Bali Mahārāja offered Lord Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma the best seat he had in his possession, and when both Lords The water used to wash the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma can purify even the greatest demigods, such

Out of compassion for her dead sons, Devakī appealed to Lord Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma thus: “My dear Balarāma And, my dear Kṛṣṇa, You are the master of all mystic yogīs. My dear Kṛṣṇa, I know that Mahā-viṣṇu, who is lying in the Causal Ocean of the cosmic manifestation and

Vasudeva was in the complete perfection of life in considering Lord Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma to be his sons about the Lord as the supreme cause of everything, Vasudeva simply repeated it out of his love for Kṛṣṇa Lord Kṛṣṇa did not wish to detract from His relationship with Vasudeva as father and son; therefore in accepted the fact that He is the eternal son of Vasudeva and that Vasudeva is the eternal father of Kṛṣṇa After this, Lord Kṛṣṇa informed His father of the spiritual identity of all living entities.

And You, Lord Kṛṣṇa, are the original Personality of Godhead, with an eternal form that is all-blissful

Lord, the shining of the moon, the heat of fire, the rays of the sun, the glittering of the stars, and electric lightning, which are all manifested as very powerful, as well as the gravity of the mountains and the energy and fragrance of the earth – all are different manifestations of You. The pure taste of water, the water itself and the vital force which maintains all life are also features

There it is said that anyone who knows the appearance and activities of the Supreme Lord Kṛṣṇa is freed Therefore Kṛṣṇa’s transcendental name, form, activities and qualities are not products of this material

end of the cosmos under different formulas of time are also Your Self because You are both the cause and The two features of this material world, the predominator and the predominated, are also You, and You You are the Supreme Soul, unborn and unchanging. The wonderful varieties of this material world are also created by You, and You have entered as the Supersoul You are the vital force of all these manifestations and also their supreme cognition.

“For a long time I have simply considered this body to be myself, and although You are the Supreme Personality appeared in Kaṁsa’s prison house, You informed me that You were the Supreme Personality of Godhead and My dear Lord, as in the sky there are many forms, appearing and disappearing, You also appear in many eternal forms and then disappear. Who, therefore, can understand Your pastimes or the mystery of Your appearance and disappearance?

One day, after having returned from the sacrificial performances at Kurukṣetra, when Lord Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma Vasudeva had the opportunity to understand the position of Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma from the great sages who Not only did he hear from the sages, but on many occasions he actually experienced that Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma Thus he believed the words of the sages that his sons Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma were the Supreme Personality

With firm faith in his sons, he addressed Them thus: “My dear Kṛṣṇa, You are the sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha

“My dear Lord, we belong to the daitya, or demon, category. The demons or demoniac persons – the Gandharvas, the Siddhas, the Vidyādharas, the Cāraṇas, the Yakṣas , the Rākṣasas, the Piśācas, the ghosts and the hobgoblins – are by nature incapable of worshiping You or becoming Your devotees. of Your lotus feet and have become devotees.

“My dear Lord, although the forces of the senses, the mental power of thinking, willing and feeling, and the strength, movement and growth of the body appear to be performed by different movements of the The vibration of the sky (its thunder), the supreme sound (oṁ-kāra) and the arrangement of different The senses, the controllers of the senses (the demigods) and the acquisition of knowledge, which is the The resolution of intelligence and the sharp memory of the living entity are also You.

It is said that the swan can draw milk from a mixture of milk and water; it can take only the milk portion and reject the watery portion. Similarly, a person who can draw out the spiritual portion from this material world and who can live A paramahaṁsa accepts only the association of pure devotees and rejects others, who are too much materially but those who are fortunate – who are advanced in a spiritual sense – take shelter of the paramahaṁsa and

dear Lord,” Vasudeva continued, “despite all these defects of the conditioned soul, if someone somehow or with devotional service, he achieves the civilized human form of body with developed consciousness and And yet, illusioned by the external energy, people generally do not utilize this advantage of the human Thus they miss the chance of eternal freedom and unnecessarily spoil the progress they have made after

“In the bodily concept of life, due to false egotism one is attached to the offspring of the body, and thus everyone in conditioned life is entrapped by false relationships and false affection. The whole world is moving under this false impression and suffering material bondage. I know that neither of You is my son; both of You are the original chief and progenitor, the Personality My dear Lord, You are the shelter of the surrendered souls, the supreme well-wisher of the meek and humble