A person who is very envious, proud, easily angered, restless and complacent is called dhiroddhata by learned scholars. Such qualities were visible in the character of Lord Krsna because, when He was writing a letter to Kalayavana, Krsna addressed him as a sinful frog. In His letter Krsna advised Kalayavana that he should immediately go and find some dark well for his residence, because there was a black snake named Krsna who was very eager to devour all such sinful frogs. Krsna reminded Kalayavana that He could turn all the universes to ashes simply by looking at them.

The above statement by Krsna seems apparently to be of an envious nature, but according to different pastimes, places and times this quality is accepted as a great characteristic. Krsna's dhiroddhata qualities have been accepted as great because Krsna uses them only to protect His devotees. In other words, even undesirable traits may also be used in the exchange of devotional service.

Sometimes Bhima, the second brother of the Pandavas, is also described as dhiroddhata.

Once, while fighting with a demon who was appearing as a deer, Krsna challenged him in this way: "I have come before you as a great elephant named Krsna. You must leave the battlefield, accepting defeat, or else there is death awaiting you." This challenging spirit of Krsna's is not contradictory to His sublime character because, as the Supreme Being, everything is possible in His character.

There is a nice statement in the Kurma Purana about these contradictory traits of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. It is stated there that the Supreme Person is neither very fat nor very thin; He is always transcendental to material qualities, and yet His bodily luster is blackish. His eyes are reddish, He is all-powerful, and He is equipped with all different kinds of opulences. Contradictory traits in Krsna's person are not at all surprising: one should not consider the characteristics of Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, to be actually contradictory. One should try to understand the traits of Krsna from authorities and try to understand how these characteristics are employed by the supreme will of the Lord.

In the Maha-varaha Purana it is confirmed that the transcendental bodies of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and His expansions are all existing eternally. Such bodies are never material and are completely spiritual and full of knowledge. They are reservoirs of all transcendental qualities. In the Vaisnava Tantra there is a statement that the Personality of Godhead and His expanded bodies are always free from the eighteen kinds of material contaminations,* [*The eighteen kinds of material contaminations mentioned above are described in the Visnu-yamala Tantra as follows: illusion, fatigue, committing errors, roughness, material lust, restlessness, pride, envy, violence, disgrace, exhaustion, untruth, anger, hankering, dependence, desire to lord over the universe, seeing duality, and cheating.] because such bodies are always full of knowledge, bliss and eternity.

Regarding all of the above-mentioned statements, it is understood that the Maha-Visnu is the source of all incarnations in the material world. But because of His greater extraordinary opulence, we can understand that the son of Nanda Maharaj is the source of the Maha-Visnu also. This is confirmed in the Brahma-samhita, wherein it is stated: "Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto Govinda, whose partial representation is the Maha-Visnu." The gigantic form of the Maha-Visnu is the source of generation for innumerable universes. Innumerable universes are coming out of His exhaling breath, and the same universes are going back in with His inhaling breath. This Maha-Visnu is also a plenary portion of a portion of Krsna.