Passage 13

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For You, who prevail through the whole universe, is it within reach to build a temple? For You, whose splendour excels ten million suns, who can hold up an earthen lamp? You are beyond the reach even of Aja, Hara and the rest; who has the power to find out Your form? For You, who move in all living beings, is it possible to give a fitting name? For You, who hold the whole universe in Your belly, who can set out foods to eat and savour?

We take only one name and form as our support, but we do not try to recognise that divine principle of Prema, that Sat, Cit and Ānanda. Kaṃsa too saw the Kṛṣṇa principle in just that way. Just some little boy. With some kinds of powers, he works all kinds of tricks. This is not divine power: so he argued. And Śiśupāla, Dantavakra and the rest need no mention. When Dharmarāja performed pāda-pūjā and tried to receive Kṛṣṇa's command to rule the kingdom, Śiśupāla says:

For filching the saris of the maidens at their bath, is it for that, this worship to You? On the day You frolicked in the water with the cowherd women, for delighting in it, is it for that, this offering of arghya? Enough now, put it away, this almanac, no more; do not go on praising; stop, shut your mouth; if this tongue is not enough to praise Śrī Kṛṣṇa, I shall slit it into a hundred …

he said. Such wickedness too keeps growing in many ways. They think only of the nature of the body and of the worldly nature of the world. They are unable to become strong enough to recognise the inner power, the principle of the Ātma, the embodiment of Ānanda. This has been going on from age to age. In every Avatāra too, such dvandvas have been springing up like chips and like wings.