On the Seventh day of the first fortnight of Paush month in Samvat 1881, Swami Shri Sahajanandji Maharaj was seated on a cot facing north on the Verandah near the temple of Shri Vasudev Narayan in the Royal residence of Shri Dada Khachar at Gadhada. Munis and devotees were assembled before him in an assembly.
Then Swayamprakashanand Swami asked, ‘ Oh Maharaj ! Please tell us whether the incarnations of God on earth bear equal spiritual importance or there can be distinction as great or small ?’
Shriji Maharaj said in reply, ‘ After hearing all the scriptures composed by Vyasji, I have come to the conclusion that amongst all the incarnations, right from fish to Nrisimh (leoman) and others, the one who transcends them all is Shri Krishna. Krishnavatar can not be equated with any other incranation. He is the transcindental highest and he is our spiritual master. The episodes of his divine life are fully narrated in the tenth Skandha of Shrimad Bhagwat. This scripture, therefore, prescribed as the great authority by me for our Uddhav Sampradaya. The rest of incarnations, as they emanate from the form of Shri Krishna, deserve our worship and the scriptures which relate their episode also deserve our respect. But the scriptures which describe episodes of Shri Krishna only should be read and be taken as an authority by us.
Then Purushottam Bhatt asked, ‘ God has created universe to redeem the souls. However, if God wishes, the souls can also be redeemed from the womb of Maya where they lie in the state of rest. Why then should God create the world ?’
Shriji Maharaj replied, ‘ Shri Krishna is the transcendental highest and is always seated in his Akshardham which supports millions of macrocosms. A great sovereign ruler, whose suzerainty is established over an infinite number of villages does not take into cognition flourishing and destruction of a few villages from those. Lord Krishna is the supreme Lord of millions of macrocosms. During the period of rest, all the macrocosms are not destroyed, which fact is not taken into consideration by the Lord. The narration in the scriptures that Shri Krishna was born of Vasudev and Devakiji is mythical narration. He is above the phases of birth and death. He is immanent even though in his divine form he is beyond Prakriti Purush, like space whose immanence is felt everywhere and yet, as a separate entity, it is beyond the four Bhutas – wind, fire, water and earth. Likewise, Lord Shri Krishna always is in his divine abode – Akshardham. His various appearances before his devotees, his spiritual dialogues with them, his divine touch, all his divine actions he performs while seated in his Akshardham. One who has attained Siddhi does see the things from the distance of thousand of miles and does hear the talks also from the same distance. Similarly, God by remaining seated in his divine abode Akshardham, appears when he desires in a particular macrocosm out of millions of macrocosms. He can thus appear simultaneously in millions of macrocosms because of his divine accomplishments. During Rass Leelas with the Gopies, Shri Krishna assumed as many forms as there were Gopies. Therefore, when God is called immanent, his immanance does not imply mere pervasiveness like the pervasiveness of space, but it implies his simultaneous appearance at various places, even though he remains seated in his Akshardham.
The earth which is twenty hundred million miles in circumference, is reduced during the period of rest to an atom and again during creation from the atom, the earth assumes its original size. Clouds appear in the sky during the monsoon and lightning thunders – these phenomena appear because God wields his Yogic powers.
This God Shri Krishna – is to be worshipped by all. His other incarnations have shown either one or two Kalas – but Lord Shri Krishna is full of Kalas. He at times displays different moods of his life- the phases of amour, renunciation, or of profound knowledge or of supreme power or of cowerdice or of valour or of statemanship ! This Lord Shri Krishna is seated in his Akshardham which supports millions of macrocosms. Out of these millions, one which has finished its life of 3,12,459,000,000,000 years is destroyed and the rest survive. Why should he, therefore redeem the souls when they are in the womb of Maya, when the various other macrocosms do exist ? This is the solution of your riddle.’ Shriji Maharaj, thus related the glory of Purushottam, hearing which the devotees realized that he was the Purushottam born of Bhakti and Dharma.
