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> How do Gaudiya Vaisnavas explain such passages in the Puranas:

>

> VishNu purANa (Part V, section 1):

> "Beholding that divine and universal form of Hari, Brahma

> again prostrated himself and began to chant glories......O king of

> the celestials give thy orders to thy servants, we are ready". When

> Brahma said this, the Supreme deity plucked off two hairs, one white

> and the other black and said to the celestials " These my hairs

> shall go down upon earth and shall relieve her of the

> burden ....This my black hair, shall be impersonated in the eighth

> conception of the goddess-like Devaki and shall destroy Kansa, who

> is the demon KAlanemi".....

 

apparently, these 2 hairs became Krsna and Balarama. what else could it

mean?

 

TridaNDi BhikSu, Bhakti Visrambha MAdhava

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