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| Archa-vigraha (Deity) of Lord Sri Krishna, The Supreme Personality of Godhead |
Real supremacy belongs to Krishna.
Krishnas tu bhagavan svayam (SB 1.3.28) is the statement of
Shrimad-Bhagavatam: "Krishna is the only Supreme Lord." Worship of
Krishna alone, therefore, includes worship of all the parts and
parcels, just as watering the root of a tree also waters all the
branches, twigs, leaves and flowers. The Lord is eternally liberated.
Whenever He appears, even within this material world, He is never
entangled by the three modes of material nature. He is known,
therefore, as try-adhisa, the master of the three modes of material
nature. As Lord Krishna says, mayadhyaksena prakrtih suyate
sa-caracaram: "This material nature is working under My direction."
Material nature is not independent. She is acting under the directions
of the Supreme Lord
The Vrindavana-lila of Krishna is the
perfect presentation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. We see how
big demigods like Brahma, Indra are completely bewildered. They are
sometimes mistaken, thinking that "How this cowherd boy can become the
Supreme Personality of Godhead?" Just like some of us think that way.
Although he's engaged in pleasing the inhabitants of Vraja, but when
there is need, He can lift up the Govardhana—at the age of seven years.
Or He can kill the demoness Putana at the age of three months. So
although Krishna is playing just like a cowherd boy, His supremacy as
the Supreme Personality of Godhead is never absent there. That is God.
God is not created by meditation. God is God. God is never
manufactured. We should know this.
According
to Vaishnava philosophy, Narayana cannot be equal to any one of us.
What to speak of us, Narayana cannot be equally estimated even with
great demigods like Lord Brahma and Lord Shiva. The Vaishnava Purana
says, yas tu narayaana devam brahma-rudradi-daivataih, samatvenaiva
vikseta sa pasandi bhavad dhruvam: (Cc. Madhya 18.116) "Anyone who
calculates Narayana, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, equal with such
demigods, what to speak of ordinary human beings, even big, big
demigods like Lord Shiva, Lord Brahma, immediately becomes a pasandi,
atheist."
The materialists, who are after opulence and material prosperity, may take lessons from the Ramayana
that the policy of exploiting the nature of the Lord without
acknowledging the supremacy of the Supreme Lord is the policy of Ravana.
Ravana was very advanced materially, so much so that he turned his
kingdom,Lanka, into pure gold, or full material wealth. But because he
did not recognize the supremacy of Lord Ramachandra and defied Him by
stealing His wife, Sita, Ravana was killed, and all his opulence and
power were destroyed.
that the policy of exploiting the nature of the Lord without
acknowledging the supremacy of the Supreme Lord is the policy of Ravana.
Ravana was very advanced materially, so much so that he turned his
kingdom,Lanka, into pure gold, or full material wealth. But because he
did not recognize the supremacy of Lord Ramachandra and defied Him by
stealing His wife, Sita, Ravana was killed, and all his opulence and
power were destroyed.
How can one truly understand the
greatness of the Supreme Lord, we don’t have to look further than the
Bhagavad gita, where Lord Krishna says that "That very ancient science
of relationship with the Supreme is today told by Me to you because you
are My devotee." A devotee is one who accepts the supremacy of the
Supreme Lord, and he is convinced about his eternal relationship with
God. (- From ISKCON Bangalore Website)
