How very perfect the Lord's pastimes are. He plays the part perfectly for the pastime.
There is a beautiful section in the SB 2.3.2. This is around verses 25
to 30 or so. Uddhava is remembering the pastimes of the Lord in
Vrndavan.
Uddhava was the only resident of Dvarka to be allowed
entrance to Vrndavan. Akrura was the only resident of Mathura to be
allowed entrance to Vrndavan. Akrura was sent by Kamsa to take Krishna
out of Vrndavan. Uddhava was sent to Vrndavan to relieve the distress
the residents were feeling in Krishna's absence.
Akrura was
cursed by gopis and so had to become implicated in the Syamantaka theft
and murder of Satrajit the father of Satyabhama, one of Lord Krishna's
principal Queens. Uddhava was blessed by gopis with the highest mood of
ecstatic love for the Lord.
Uddhava is describing the Lord's
pastimes with the cowherd boys, the beautiful setting of Vrndavan with
it's trees full of fruits, the fragrant flowers, the flowing river, and
all the birds and other animals all there simply to enhance the Lord's
pastimes.
"The forests on the shore of the Yamunā are all
beautiful gardens full of trees of mango, jackfruit, apples, guava,
oranges, grapes, berries, palmfruit and so many other plants and
fragrant flowers. And because the forest was on the bank of the Yamunā,
naturally there were ducks, cranes and peacocks on the branches of the
trees. All these trees and birds and beasts were pious living entities
born in the transcendental abode of Vṛndāvana just to give pleasure to
the Lord and His eternal associates, the cowherd boys."
And then
there are the different demons who come to try to kill Lord Krishna who
is playing like a child. Srila Prabhupada describes these demons as
wizards able to appear in any form or shape. It is wonderful how they
assumed such unusual shapes and forms. A giant duck, an ugly witch
disguised as a goddess, a fat serpent miles long...
A child's
world is filled with unusual shapes and larger than life images. Go into
any child's room and you will find unusual toys in very unrealistic
forms. Like caricatures of something. A bird toy isn't just a bird, it's
a giant bird with unusual exaggerated features brightly colored.
"The atheist Kaṁsa wanted to kill Kṛṣṇa just after His birth. He failed
to do so, but later on he got information that Kṛṣṇa was living in
Vṛndāvana at the house of Nanda Mahārāja. He therefore engaged many
wizards who could perform wonderful acts and assume any form they
liked."
Srila Prabhupada compares Lord Krishna's dealings with
these demons as a child playing with toys that get broken in the course
of playing.
"All of them appeared before the child-Lord in
various forms, like Agha, Baka, Pūtanā, Śakaṭa, Tṛṇāvarta, 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."
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