Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.1.19

śapator asakṛd viṣṇuḿ

yad brahma param avyayam

śvitro na jāto jihvāyāḿ

nāndhaḿ viviśatus tamaḥ

SYNONYMS

śapatoḥ — of both Śiśupāla and Dantavakra, who were blaspheming; asakṛt — repeatedly; viṣṇum — Lord Kṛṣṇa; yat — which; brahma param — the Supreme Brahman; avyayam — without diminution; śvitraḥ — white leprosy; na — not; jātaḥ — appeared; jihvāyām — on the tongue; na — not; andham — dark; viviśatuḥ — they did enter; tamaḥ — hell.

TRANSLATION

Although these two men — Śiśupāla and Dantavakra — repeatedly blasphemed the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Viṣṇu [Kṛṣṇa], the Supreme Brahman, they were quite healthy. Indeed, their tongues were not attacked by white leprosy, nor did they enter the darkest region of hellish life. We are certainly most surprised by this.

PURPORT

Kṛṣṇa is described by Arjuna in Bhagavad-gītā (10.12) as follows: paraḿ brahma paraḿ dhāma pavitraḿ paramaḿ bhavān. "You are the Supreme Brahman, the supreme abode and purifier." Herein this is confirmed. Viṣṇuḿ yad brahma param avyayam. The Supreme Viṣṇu is Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa is the cause of Viṣṇu, not vice versa. Similarly, Brahman is not the cause of Kṛṣṇa; Kṛṣṇa is the cause of Brahman. Therefore Kṛṣṇa is the Parabrahman (yad brahma param avyayam).

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