prayuktÄn bhoja-rÄjena
mÄyinaḥ kÄma-rÅ«piṇaḥ
lÄ«layÄ vyanudat tÄá¹s tÄn
bÄlaḥ krÄ«á¸anakÄn iva
prayuktÄn - engaged; bhoja-rÄjena - by King Kaá¹sa; mÄyinaḥ - great wizards; kÄma-rÅ«piṇaḥ - who could assume any form they liked; lÄ«layÄ - in the course of the pastimes; vyanudat - killed; tÄn - them; tÄn - as they came there; bÄlaḥ - the child; krÄ«á¸anakÄn - dolls; iva - like that.
The atheist Kaá¹sa wanted to kill Kṛṣṇa just after His birth. He failed to do so, but later on he got information that Kṛṣṇa was living in Vá¹›ndÄvana at the house of Nanda MahÄrÄja. He therefore engaged many wizards who could perform wonderful acts and assume any form they liked. All of them appeared before the child-Lord in various forms, like Agha, Baka, PÅ«tanÄ, Åšakaá¹a, TṛṇÄvarta, Dhenuka and Gardabha, and they tried to kill the Lord at every opportunity. But one after another, all of them were killed by the Lord as if He were only playing with dolls. Children play with toy lions, elephants, boars and many similar dolls, which are broken by the children in the course of their playing with them. Before the Almighty Lord, any powerful living being is just like a toy lion in the hands of a playing child. No one can excel God in any capacity, and therefore no one can be equal to or greater than Him, nor can anyone attain the stage of equality with God by any kind of endeavor. JñÄna, yoga and bhakti are three recognized processes of spiritual realization. The perfection of such processes can lead one to the desired goal of life in spiritual value, but that does not mean that one can attain a perfection equal to the Lord’s by such endeavors. The Lord is the Lord at every stage. When He was playing just like a child on the lap of His mother YaÅ›odÄmayÄ« or just like a cowherd boy with His transcendental friends, He continued to remain God, without the slightest diminution of His six opulences. Thus He is always unrivaled.