"Self, O King, is the most beloved of all things not so beloved are
one's sons or wealth. Therefore, O king, people love themselves better
than they do their sons, their riches or their homes. Those that deem
their body to be their own Atma or self, love that body more than
anything else.
"But the body only becomes dear as it pertains to self. It can not be as
dear as self. For when the body wears away, the desire to live on is
still strong.
"Therefore Atma or self is most dear to all beings and the whole of this
Universe is for that self.
"But know thou this Krishna to be the Self of all selves, the Atma of
all Atmas. For the good of the Universe, he also looks by Maya as one
possessed of a body. Those that know Krishna know that all movable and
immovable beings are but His forms and that nothing else exists.
"Of all things, the ultimate reality is 'Existence'. Krishna is the
reality of Existence itself. So there is nothing besides Krishna."
Here ends the Kumara Lila of Krishna. The Pouganda Lila is now to
commence. (Kumara is a boy below five, Pouganda is boyhood from the 5th
to the 16th year).
*END OF KUMARA LILA*