Brahma Vaivarta Purana Chapter 19:151-160

Brahma Vaivarta Purana

Käliya-damana-dävägni-mokñana

Subduing Käliya and Extinguishing the Forest Fire

Chapter 19: Verse 151-160

ENGLISH TRANSLATION 151.How can any calamity fall on the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who creates all the universes, as Lord Çeña holds them up, and as Lord Çiva destroys them at the end? 152.How can there be a fearful situation for Lord Kåñna, who as Mahä-Viñnu manifests hosts of universes from the pores of His transcendental body? 153.How can there be defeat for Lord Kåñëa, who is the end of time, the killer that kills death, and the creator of the creator? 154.He is smaller than the smallest and greater than the greatest. Who, unseen, stays in the hearts of all, even the great yogis. 155.The Vedas say that as the directions cannot be confined to a single place and as the sky cannot even be seen, so Lord Kåñëa, the master of Rädhä, cannot be brought under anyone's control. 156.Spirit is not visible to material eyes. It cannot be cut by any weapon, bound, killed, burned, hurt, or distressed. This the wise know. 157.Revealing His effulgent spiritual form, which has neither beginning, middle, nor end, Lord Kåñëa appears in the meditations of the devotees. 158.Lord Kåñëa floats on the water that fills half the universe. From His lotus navel the demigod Brahmä is born. How can Kåñëa be in trouble in the middle of a small lake? 159.O father Nanda, a mosquito will swallow the entire universe before some snake can swallow My master, Kåñëa. 160.I have spoken to you the highest, most secret transcendental knowledge, knowledge hidden even from the yogis, knowledge that cuts the bonds of repeated birth and death.