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spiritual world and the material world. This is due to the fact that the Lord has infinite energies that emanate
from him. This is confirmed in the Svestasvatara Upanisad.

tam īśvarāṇāṁ paramaṁ maheśvaraṁ /taṁ devatānāṁ paramaṁ ca daivatam
patiṁ patīnāṁ paramaṁ parastād / vidāma devaṁ bhuvaneśam īḍyam

na tasya kāryaṁ karaṇaṁ ca vidyate /na tat-samaś cābhyadhikaś ca dṛśyate
parāsya śaktir vividhaiva śrūyate / svābhāvikī jñāna-bala-kriyā ca

The Supreme Lord is the controller of all other controllers, and He is the greatest of all the diverse planetary
leaders. Everyone is under His control. All entities are delegated with particular power only by the Supreme Lord;
they are not supreme themselves. He is also worshipable by all demigods and is the supreme director of all
directors. Therefore, He is transcendental to all kinds of material leaders and controllers and is worshipable by
all. There is no one greater than Him, and He is the supreme cause of all causes.

He does not possess a bodily form like that of an ordinary living entity. There is no difference between His body
and His soul. He is absolute. All His senses are transcendental. Any one of His senses can perform the action of
any other sense. Therefore, no one is greater than Him or equal to Him. His potencies are multifarious, and thus
His deeds are automatically performed as a natural sequence. (Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad 6.7–8)
Brahma tried to disrupt Krishna’s transcendental pastimes in Gokula Vrindabana when he stole all calves and
cowherd boys. The Lord bewildered Lord Brahma (Brahma moha) and expanded Himself into the cows and
cowherd boys to continue His pastimes.

Brahmā wanted to bewilder Krishna due to his own misunderstanding of the Lord’s infinite potencies. The result
was that Brahmā himself was mystified. He was defeated by his own attempt to bewilder Lord Krishna. The Lord
cannot be bewildered by any kind of mystic power of Brahma or any other living entity including all the scientists,
philosophers and miracle men of this world.

On another occasion, Brahma came to see Krishna at Dvaraka, the Lord’s royal city 5000 years ago. When
Brahma tried to enter Lord Krishna’s palace, the doorman asked Which Brahma are you? Later, when Brahma
inquired from Krishna whether the doorman’s question implied that there was more than one Brahma? Krishna
smiled and at once called for many Brahmas from many universes to enter the palace. The four-headed Brahma
of this universe then saw innumerable other Brahmas coming to bow their heads in reverance to Lord Krishna.
Some of them had ten heads, some had twenty, some had a hundred and some had a million heads. Witnessing
this astonishing revelation, the four-headed Brahma was vexed and humbled realizing that there are many more
complex universes than his with an infinite number of other Brahmas. He surrendered utterly to the Lord.

Siva wanted to see the Mohini Murti, the female appearance of Lord Krishna that bewildered the asuras and
gave the nectar of immortality to the devas. Siva and his wife Parvati went to see Krishna and asked to see His
female appearance. When Krishna manifested His Mohini Murti form, Siva became so enamored by Mohini
Murti’s beswildering stunning beauty that he forgot his wife and started to run after Mohini Murti to embrace
Her.

In the Rama Charitra Manas, Tulsi das relates the story of how Durga in the form of Parvati devi tried to bewilder
Lord Rama (an avatara of Lord Krishna). She changed her form to resemble a form exactly like Sitadevi. But Lord

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