Higher intelligence exists to purify the soul through Krishna consciousness, not to surpass God's perfect arrangements.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Morning Walk at Stowe Lake — March 27, 1968, San Francisco 680327MW-SAN FRANCISCO [48:23 Minutes] Prabhupāda: Chant. Girl devotee (1): [sings:] Śrīvāsādi-gaura-bhakta-vṛnda.
Prabhupāda: Yes. You learn this song. śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya prabhu nityānanda śrī-advaita gadādhara śrīvāsādi-gaura-bhakta-vṛnda Chant this when [indistinct]. śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya prabhu nityānanda śrī-advaita gadādhara śrīvāsādi-gaura-bhakta-vṛnda [I offer my obeisances to Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya, Prabhu Nityānanda, Śrī Advaita, Gadādhara, Śrīvāsa and all others in the line of devotion.] Manifestation of Kṛṣṇa in five expansions. Kṛṣṇa can expand Himself. Not only Kṛṣṇa, even a perfect yogī, he can also expand.
Not as many as Kṛṣṇa, but a perfect yogī, from the scriptures we can understand that a perfect yogī can expand himself up to eight, up to nine forms. There was one Saubhari Muni. The Saubhari Muni he used to perform yoga practice within water. There were many sages who used to practice.
Somebody within water, somebody surrounding fire and in the midst. That means voluntarily putting the body into trouble, and at the same time executing yoga practice. They were so much advanced that in spite of all material trouble they would be able to execute spiritual duties. Saubhari Muni was sexually agitated within the water by the fishes. So he came out of the water, and the neighboring king—I forgot the name—he went there and demanded the king that "I want to marry your daughter.
So give me your daughter." The king thought... [laughs] He was so ugly, because he was within the water. So all body was, what is called? Syamasundara: Distorted? Devotee (1): Water-logged, yeah. The skin gets water-logged? Prabhupāda: No, not that.
There are some kind of weeds within the water. Devotee (1): Oh. Algae? Prabhupāda: Maybe. Devotee (2) (boy): Seaweed. Prabhupāda: Seaweeds, yes. So they... All over the body there was some seaweeds.
Not exactly... He was very unclean and odd-looking, and beard and ugly. So he thought that "He's a great yogī. If I refuse, 'No, I'm not going to hand over my daughter to you,' then he may be angry and create some catastrophe." So he said, just to avoid him, that "I have got eight daughters, and it is the desire of my daughters that they should be given over to one husband...," no, that "they should be married all at once.