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Rama looked directly at her and said, Oh Mother Paravati where is your husband Siva? Parvati was shocked and
started to run away. When she looked back she saw Sita and Rama and when she looked ahead again she saw
Sita and Rama. She became bewildered even though she is the controller of illusion in the material world.

Indra, the king of all the demigods, also tried to disrupt Lord Krishna’s pastime in Vrindabana when he caused
torrential rains to drown all the area of Vrindabana. But the child Krishna lifted the Govardana mountain and
used as an umbrella to protect all the cows and inhabitants of Vrindabana. Indra was bewildered by such an
amazing feat tha defeated his attempt to interrupt Lord Krishna’s pastime.

In every instance above Lord Krishna manifested His incredible powers that cannot be emulated and prove He
possesses unparalled powers that mystify the greatest and most powerful personalities in the universe.
The Lord is described as eka, meaning one. The Lord is one, whereas the conditioned living entities embodied
in the material world exist in many forms as demigods, humans, animals, trees, birds, bees, etc. All living entities
as spirit souls are eternal. When Krishna appears in His original form in Vrindaban either as a new born baby,
child, adolescent or mature He possesses all His powers as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. As a baby He
killed the cart demon Sakatasura, Putana a demon ogre whose body was 12 miles long and Trinivrata the
whirlwind (tornado) demon. As a child of 7 years old he lifted the mountain Govardhana, swallowed a gigantic
fire, defeated the terrible snake demon Kaliya and many more supernatural feats demonstrating He had the
absolute power of Godhead even as a child. He was never defeated.

Lord Krishna’s unique position as the Supreme Personality of Godhead is confirmed by the following verse from
the Katha Upanisad 2.2.13:

nityo nityānāṁ cetanaś cetanānām / eko bahūnāṁ yo vidadhāti kāmān
tam ātma-sthaṁ ye ’nupaśyanti dhīrās / teṣāṁ śāntiḥ śāśvatī netareṣām

The Supreme Lord is the prime eternal among all eternal living entities. The living entities are cognizant, but the
Supreme Lord is cognizant of all living entities and everything in existence. The difference is that the Supreme
Lord is supplying all the necessities of life for all other living entities. He alone is maintaining all life. He is the
root of all intelligence.

This verse makes clear that all living entities are dependent on Lord Krishna. He is the supreme maintainer of all
life.

The living entities in the material world are not pure because of their attachment to sense gratifcation. They
have two major weaknesses of the heart: the first weakness (fall down from the spiritual world due to envy of
Lord Krishna) gave rise to the desire to lord it over material nature for sense gratification in defiance of the Lord.
The living entity gave up the transcendental loving service of the Supreme Lord to chase after illusory material
satisfaction, which is a trap that entangles the bewildered soul in the cycle of birth and death.

The second weakness of the heart occurs when one increases the propensity to lord it over material nature. By
acquiring more and more material possessions, one becomes attached to matter and the possession of material
things and material relationships. The hard knot of attachment evolves to the point that one cannot understand
any other type of life than one of mundane attachment to temporary objects and relationships. All problems of
life are due to these two weaknesses of the heart.

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