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Now, if the Supreme Lord, God, has no hand, no leg, then how He can walk? Just like Saksi-gopala. Saksi-gopala, He was Deity, apparently showing as made of stone, and the devotee's asking, "My Lord, Gopala, You have to come to give witness." So Gopala was smiling and said, "How you expect a Deity can walk, that I shall go to give witness for you?" The bhakta said, "If the Deity can speak and smile, He can walk also." That is the conviction of devotee. And the other party, they agreed that "If Gopala comes to give witness, my sister will be given to you." He... Because he's atheist, he is thinking that "How the Deity will come? He'll never come. Then I shall not have to fulfill my promise." He is... He was confident like that. That is the difference between a devotee and nondevotee. The nondevotee cannot understand. They will take it that "Once you say that God has no eyes, then how He can see? God has no leg. Then how can He walk? God has no hand. Then how can He accept your offering?" Therefore the conclusion should be that ajo 'pi, although Krsna never takes birth, and again He takes birth. He has taken birth. Therefore His birth is not like our birth. This is to be understood. He has no birth, but He has taken birth. Therefore, an intelligent man will conclude that His birth is not like our birth.    (More...)

Therefore Krsna says, janma karma me divyam [Bg 4.9]. It is all transcendental. It is not this ordinary birth. Ordinary birth means male and female union, then there is pregnancy, then the child comes out of the womb. It is not like that. It is... We can take this example: just like the sunrise in the morning, udilo aruna pūraba-bhage. Before the sunrise, the sky becomes reddish, and then the sun comes out. So if somebody says that "The eastern side is the birthplace of sun," is it a fact? No. The sun is always there in the sky, but with your limited eyes you are seeing that now sun comes, sunrise. Sun does not rise nor set. Sun is already there. Your imperfect eyes-you see there is sunrise, there is sunset. Is it not a fact? Similarly, Krsna is always there, but because we do not know Krsna, therefore we understand that Krsna is taking birth from Devaki, or Krsna has taken birth in the family of the Yadus. Yes, He appears like that, that He has taken birth in the Yadu family. Because why? The purpose is to glorify the family because it belongs to the devotee, Maharaja Yadu. That is His purpose. His real purpose is that the Yadu dynasty... Maharaja Yadu was a great devotee. Here the yadoḥ priyasya. He appears to take birth in the family of Maharaja Yadu. Just like Lord Ramacandra, He took birth in the family of Maharaja Raghu. Therefore Lord Ramacandra is called Raghunatha, Dasarathi, as Krsna is called Vasudeva because He accepted Vasudeva as His father.    (More...)

So actually, Krsna has no birth. Krsna doesn't require. He can appear in any family. He... Just like Krsna appeared, matsya-avatara, in the family of fish. Kesava dhrta-mina-sarira, jaya jagadisa hare. Krsna took birth as a pig. Kesava dhrta-varaha-sarira, jaya jagadisa hare. Krsna is free. He can appear anywhere, everywhere. That is... Just like isvaraḥ sarva-bhūtanam hrd-dese arjuna tisthati [Bg 18.61].    (More...)

So this is Krsna. So the highest devotees, they..., Krsna, they, Krsna accepts because He is playing the part of human being. Avajananti mam mūḍhaḥ [Bg 9.11]. Those who are mūḍhas, they cannot understand, but those who are intelligent, they know that Krsna is perfectly playing as a human being. As a human being takes birth in the womb of his father and mother, by the father and mother, similarly, Krsna also appeared, accepting Vasudeva as His father, Devaki as mother. But actually Krsna is not born. That is being repeatedly explained by Kuntidevi, that apare, apare vasudevasya devakyam: "They say like that." What is that? Devaki-nandana... There is a verse, that "It is a saying only." Nobody can become Krsna's father or mother, but they get the reputation as father and mother. That is a concession to the devotee. Therefore Kuntidevi says apare: "Others say like that." Somebody says like this; somebody says like that; somebody says like this. This is going on. But actually, Krsna remains aja always. Because if we do not understand that Krsna, what is Krsna, then we'll misunderstand Him, that "He is also born. He is also born, so how He can become?" The Mayavadi says that "Krsna is also having a body of..., the material body, maya. Therefore real spiritual identity-impersonal. As soon as He assumes the body, it is material." That is called Mayavadi. "Maya. The Krsna's body is maya. The ultimate Absolute is no body, impersonal." That is their theory. Therefore we call them Mayavadi.    (More...)

But Krsna is not like that. In the Bhagavata it is described about the Krsna's birth. Krsna appeared as Narayana, Catur-bhuja, before Vasudeva and Devaki. But Devaki, because previously her seven sons were killed by Kamsa, so Devaki immediately prayed to the Lord that "This time You have appeared as the Supreme Lord, Visnu. Now immediately Kamsa will kill You. Formerly my so many sons appeared as human child. They were killed. And Kamsa is searching after killing God, Krsna, the Supreme Lord. Now You have appeared exactly four-handed Narayana. Immediately You will be killed." That is affection. That is called yoga-maya affection. "So kindly You appear as ordinary human child." This is the description in the Bhagavatam about Krsna's birth. So He did not appear immediately as a human child. He appeared first of all as the four-handed Narayana. Then, on the request of the father and mother, He became a child. This picture we have got in our Krsna book. So that is the position of Krsna. Krsna is the father of everyone. That is said in Bhagavad-gita:    (More...)