Spiritualতেব যিদ তব কৃপা হয় অৈহতΦকী সকল-ই সјব েহায় তΦিম েস েকৗতΦকী (৪)
tabe yadi tava kṛpā haya ahaitukī sakal-i sambhava haya tumi se kautukī tabe—then; yadi—if; tava—Your; kṛpā—mercy; haya—is shown; ahaitukī—causeless; sakala-i—all of them; sambhava haya—it is possible; tumi—You; se—that; kautukī—fond of amusements.
But I know Your causeless mercy can make everything possible because You are the most expert mystic.
Commentary Kṛṣṇa is known as Yogeśvara, the controller of all mystic power. His powers, which appear even in material nature, are inconceivable— or mystical—because by mundane calculation they contradict logic and common sense. During a morning walk in 1975, Prabhupāda explained this to some of his disciples: Every living creature has some mystic power. A lemon tree, for example, has the mystic power to produce tons of citric acid, lemon juice. This is acintya-śakti, inconceivable power. The cow, eating grass, producing milk—this is inconceivable power. Can you produce milk from the grass? But how the cow is producing? Hmm? Answer this. You eat grass and produce milk. Give your wife grass and let her produce milk. Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī writes in the beginning of Chapter 8 of the Ādi-līlā of Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta: “By remembering the lotus feet of the Pañca-tattva, a dumb man can become a poet, a lame man can cross mountains, and a blind man can see the stars in the sky.” Considering that Kṛṣṇa possesses inconceivable potencies, Śrīla Prabhupāda expresses in this verse the hope that Kṛṣṇa can empower him to do things that appear miraculous, even “impossible”. Śyāmasundara writes in the Introduction to Mukunda Goswami’s book Miracle on 2nd Avenue: To please our wonderful Spiritual Master we went out, you and I and our godbrothers and godsisters, and spent our furious young energies spreading Krishna’s name all over the world. You transferred to the rest of us the Swami’s mood that nothing was impossible; everything was Krishna’s magic, and so it was. Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami comments on Prabhupāda’s prayer in an article as follows: But while feeling his own weakness, he directly spoke his heart to God. He was alone, with no friend, but God was his friend. And what did he wish of his friend? ‘I wish that You may deliver them. I am seeking Your benediction so that I can convince them.’ And in this intimate poem he also revealed the method he would use. He had full confidence in the power of the transcendental vibration of God's holy name. As expressed in the verses he quoted from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, the message of Godhead itself would clean away desire for material enjoyment and awaken loving service unto Kṛṣṇa as an irrevocable fact. It was complete faith in this process that he expressed, even while forced to feel the powerful influence of ignorance and passion that dominated everything around him in the American city. He was tiny, but God was the greatest, and God was Kṛṣṇa, his dearmost friend. Therefore, although no one in Boston or New York had the slightest suspicion of it, and although he himself did not assume it, he had entered as a powerful enemy of illusion. Kṛṣṇa's empowered emissary had entered the shore of America in the form of a poor mendicant from India, and no one yet knew what it all meant. As for Śrīla Prabhupāda’s understanding of the event, he expressed it in his poem: ‘Somehow or other, O Lord, You have brought me here to speak about You. Now, my Lord, it is up to You to make me a success or failure, as You like.’ Still, the task seems overwhelmingly difficult, and therefore Śrīla Prabhupāda continues to wonder how he could possibly convince Westerners, accustomed to so many bad habits, of the necessity to change their lifestyle and develop pure Kṛṣṇa consciousness.