svayam ÄtmÄtma-govatsÄn
prativÄryÄtma-vatsapaiḥ
krÄ«á¸ann Ätma-vihÄraiÅ› ca
sarvÄtmÄ prÄviÅ›ad vrajam
svayam ÄtmÄ - Kṛṣṇa, who is personally the Supreme Soul, the Supersoul; Ätma-go-vatsÄn - now expanded into calves that were also He Himself; prativÄrya Ätma-vatsapaiḥ - again He Himself was represented as the cowherd boys controlling and commanding the calves; krÄ«á¸an - thus Himself constituting everything in these transcendental pastimes; Ätma-vihÄraiḥ ca - enjoying Himself by Himself in different ways; sarva-ÄtmÄ - the Supersoul, Kṛṣṇa; prÄviÅ›at - entered; vrajam - VrajabhÅ«mi, the land of MahÄrÄja Nanda and YaÅ›odÄ.
Now expanding Himself so as to appear as all the calves and cowherd boys, all of them as they were, and at the same time appear as their leader, Kṛṣṇa entered VrajabhÅ«mi, the land of His father, Nanda MahÄrÄja, just as He usually did while enjoying their company.
Kṛṣṇa usually stayed in the forest and pasturing ground, taking care of the calves and cows with His associates the cowherd boys. Now that the original group had been taken away by BrahmÄ, Kṛṣṇa Himself assumed the forms of every member of the group, without anyone’s knowledge, even the knowledge of Baladeva, and continued the usual program. He was ordering His friends to do this and that, and He was controlling the calves and going into the forest to search for them when they went astray, allured by new grass, but these calves and boys were He Himself. This was Kṛṣṇa’s inconceivable potency. As explained by ÅšrÄ«la SvarÅ«pa DÄmodara GosvÄmÄ«, rÄdhÄ kṛṣṇa-praṇaya-viká¹›tir hlÄdinÄ« Å›aktir asmÄt. RÄdhÄ and Kṛṣṇa are the same. Kṛṣṇa, by expanding His pleasure potency, becomes RÄdhÄrÄṇī. The same pleasure potency (Änanda-cinmaya-rasa) was expanded by Kṛṣṇa when He Himself became all the calves and boys and enjoyed transcendental bliss in VrajabhÅ«mi. This was done by the Yoga-mÄyÄ potency and was inconceivable to persons under the potency of MahÄ-mÄyÄ.
