Krishna's Form

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The Lord says that He appears in His own body. He does

not change His body, as the common living entity

changes from one body to another. The conditioned soul

may have one kind of body in the present birth, but he

has a different body in the next birth. In the

material world, the living entity has no fixed body

but transmigrates from one body to another. The Lord,

however, does not do so. Whenever He appears, He does

so in the same original body, by His internal potency.

In other words, Krsna appears in this material world

in His original eternal form, with two hands, holding

a flute. He appears exactly in His eternal body,

uncontaminated by this material world. Although He

appears in the same transcendental body and is Lord of

the universe, it still appears that He takes His birth

like an ordinary living entity. And although His body

does not deteriorate like a material body, it still

appears that Lord Krsna grows from childhood to

boyhood and from boyhood to youth. But astonishingly

enough He never ages beyond youth. At the time of the

Battle of Kuruksetra, He had many grandchildren at

home; or, in other words, He had sufficiently aged by

material calculations. Still He looked just like a

young man twenty or twenty-five years old. We never

see a picture of Krsna in old age because He never

grows old like us, although He is the oldest person in

the whole creation—past, present, and future. Neither

His body nor His intelligence ever deteriorates or

changes. Therefore, it is clear that in spite of His

being in the material world, He is the same unborn,

eternal form of bliss and knowledge, changeless in His

transcendental body and intelligence. Factually, His

appearance and disappearance is like the sun’s rising,

moving before us, and then disappearing from our

eyesight. When the sun is out of sight, we think that

the sun is set, and when the sun is before our eyes,

we think that the sun is on the horizon. Actually, the

sun is always in its fixed position, but owing to our

defective, insufficient senses, we calculate the

appearance and disappearance of the sun in the sky.

And because Lord Krsna’s appearance and disappearance

are completely different from that of any ordinary,

common living entity, it is evident that He is

eternal, blissful knowledge by His internal

potency—and He is never contaminated by material

nature. The Vedas also confirm that the Supreme

Personality of Godhead is unborn yet He still appears

to take His birth in multimanifestations. The Vedic

supplementary literatures also confirm that even

though the Lord appears to be taking His birth, He is

still without change of body. In the Bhagavatam, He

appears before His mother as Narayana, with four hands

and the decorations of the six kinds of full

opulences. His appearance in His original eternal form

is His causeless mercy, bestowed upon the living

entities so that they can concentrate on the Supreme

Lord as He is, and not on mental concoctions or

imaginations, which the impersonalist wrongly thinks

the Lord’s forms to be. The word maya, or atma-maya,

refers to the Lord’s causeless mercy, according to the

Visva-kosa dictionary. The Lord is conscious of all of

His previous appearances and disappearances, but a

common living entity forgets everything about his past

body as soon as he gets another body. He is the Lord

of all living entities because He performs wonderful

and superhuman activities while He is on this earth.

Therefore, the Lord is always the same Absolute Truth

and is without differentiation between His form and

self, or between His quality and body.

 

 

 

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