The Lord is the embodiment of a unique divine mystery that is difficult to comprehend. His is a Supreme State, one that is beyond words, intellect and imagination, say the scriptures. To contemplate on it is a mind-boggling exercise and saints, Azhwars and devotees have preferred to view Him as the essence of boundless kindness towards those who seek Him.
While explaining His status to Arjuna, Lord Krishna points out the subtle differences that exist between His births and human birth, pointed out Swami Gautamananda in a lecture. Karma is the cause for human birth. But the Lord incarnates because of His Sankalpa. whenever there is danger to ethical values and to His devotees.
The cycle of creation, sustenance and dissolution, goes on endlessly because Maya makes these things happen. “My spirit stands apart, watching over Maya, the maker and hence none of these acts bind me; I remain indifferent and detached to the acts and fruits they bear.”
The Lord states that many do not recognise His greatness when He appears in human form and mistake Him to be an ordinary human being. For instance, in Krishna Avatar, many could not fathom His Supreme State at all, though He had performed extraordinary feats even as a child when there was danger to Him from Kamsa. Yet many did not recognise His true state.
Even Arjuna saw Him mostly as a friend and hence was keen to view His greatness when Krishna explained His real nature to him. Such being the case, His enemies — Kamsa or Sisupala, or even Duryodhana belittled His greatness and refused to see the Paratva (Supreme State) in Him. Sisupala, Krishna’s cousin bore enmity to the Lord and would not make any reservations about this.
During the Rajasuya Yaga, when it was the custom to honour a person of pre-eminence, the choice naturally fell on Krishna. In the august assembly, Sisupala could not bear to see Krishna being thus celebrated and began to hurl curses on Him. The Lord patiently bore His impudence until he cursed him hundred times after which He killed Sisupala with His discus.
