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3-Infinite Mystifying powers are bewildering because they can manifest mutually contradictory effects. It is
impossible for any living entity to emulate them including Siva and Brahma. This is referred to as Aja or
mystifying powers: to be infinitely small and at the same time infinitely big, to be far away and at the same time
very close, to be one and at the same time infinitely many, to be in one place and, at the same time, everywhere.
The Lord is simultaneously and inconceivably one and different. (acintya bedha-abedha tattva). In the following
quote Srila Prabhupada gives some examples of Lord Krishna’s infinite mystic powers:

We must see the inconceivable mystic power. Just like Krishna, as a child, lifted a hill. This is inconceivable mystic
power. Ramachandra, He constructed a bridge of stone without pillars. The stone began to float. So that is an
inconceivable power. And because you cannot adjust this inconceivable power, when they are described, you
say, “Oh, these are all stories, mythology.” There was forest fire. All the friends and cowherd boys, they became
disturbed. They began to look towards Krishna: “Krishna, what to do?” “All right.” He simply swallowed up the
whole fire. This is inconceivable mystic power. That is God. (Morning Walk at Cheviot Hills Golf Course, May 17,
1973, Los Angeles)

4-All the viṣṇu-mūrtis were surrounded by the twenty-four elements for the creation of the material world,
headed by the mahat-tattva. There are twenty-four material elements: five working senses – hands (pani), feet
(pada), tongue (vak), gentials (upastha), anus (payu). These are referred to as panca-karmendriya, the five
senses for work; the five senses for acquiring knowledge are ears (shotra), nose (grahna), eyes (chakshu), tongue
(jihva) and skin (tvak) referred to as panca- jnanendriya; five gross material elements are prithvi (earth), jala
(water), tej (fire), vayu (air), akash (ether) referred to as panca-mahabhuta. Five objects of the senses are sound
(shabda), touch (sparsha), vision (roopa), taste (rasa), smell (gnadha). These are referred to as the panca-
tanmatra. The next four are manas (the mind), buddhir (intelligence), ahankara (the false ego), mahat tattva
(the sum total of material creation including all living entities therein).

Lord Krishna is never impersonal or void. It is very difficult to meditate on something impersonal or void.
Meditation of Lord Krishna, however, is very easy because He is an eternal person whose beauty is always
youthful, fresh, pristine and constantly increasing with infinite variety. The Lord explains how to meditate on
Him:
kaviṁ purāṇam anuśāsitāram / aṇor aṇīyāṁsam anusmared yaḥ
sarvasya dhātāram acintya-rūpam / āditya-varṇaṁ tamasaḥ parastāt

One should meditate upon the Supreme Person as the one who knows everything (kavi), as He who is the oldest
(puranam), who is the controller (anusasitaram), who is smaller than the smallest (anor aniyamsam), who is the
maintainer of everything (sarvasya dhataram), who is beyond all material conception, who is inconceivable
(acintya rupam), and who is always a person (yah). He is luminous like the sun (adhitya varnam), and He is
transcendental beyond this material nature (tamasah parastat). (Bg 8.9)

Bhaktivedanta Swami explains:

The Lord is kavi; that is, He knows past, present and future and therefore knows everything. He is the oldest
personality because He is the origin of everything; everything is born out of Him. He is also the supreme controller
of the universe, and He is the maintainer and instructor of humanity. He is smaller than the smallest. The living
entity is one ten-thousandth part of the tip of a hair, but the Lord is so inconceivably small that He enters into
the heart of this particle. Therefore He is called smaller than the smallest. As the Supreme, He can enter into the
atom and into the heart of the smallest and control him as the Supersoul. Although so small, He is still all-
pervading and is maintaining everything. By Him all these planetary systems are sustained. We often wonder
how these big planets are floating in the air. It is stated here that the Supreme Lord, by His inconceivable energy,
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