As per His true nature the Lord is unborn and imperishable. Taking birth in human form and on accomplishing His mission the disappearance of His manifested form into an unmanifested one. It does not mean that it causes any difference in His True nature. It means that in certain circumstances ice was formed but in its true nature it is water only and ice once again appears in the form of water. The unborn Lord under special circumstances assumed body and after a lapse of time after concluding His sportive actions, dissolved into His essential nature.

This is not like the birth and death of an ordinary mortal. While manifesting on the earth in human form He did not pass through the womb of the mother. The Bhagvad and Shri Ram Charit Manas are evidence that Lord Shri Krishna and Lord Shri Ram first appeared in front of their mothers in four armed-forms and on their request each assumed the appearance of a child. Their bodies are unaffected by old age and death. They are beyond both. Despite being the lords of all beings each assumes the form of a child.

But that does not take away anything from their divinity. Omnipotent and All-powerful are they. They can engage in any kind of sports; they can become children and play in the courtyard, eat, steal, butter or engage in several other sportive plays

with the gopas, gopis and gwalas. If found necessary then on the sixth day of taking birth to finish off Putana who under the pretext of feeding milk came to poison child Krishna...Jai Shri Krishna! He is the Lord of all beings in any case-'bhutanamisvaro pi san'...even then He manifests in the form of a body. How? Where the difference lies in the birth of an ordinary human being and that of the Lord.

Prakrtim svamadhisthaya sambhavamyatmamayaya' I by controllling My own nature I assume form through My yoga maya. Yoga maya is that higher power of the Lord through which the entire creation was created and after using it for creation He has kept Himself concealed through it.

'yogamaya samavritah' (Gita 7/25) Through the means of that Yoga maya the Lord manifests Himself. One more fact-the embodied being takes birth subject to his nature and the Lord assumes embodiment by controlling the nature and not by being subject to it.

The normal human being takes birth due to previous destiny, unfulfilled desires and satoguni, rajoguni and tamoguni-accumulated impressions of previous births-all these contribute to the birth which follows, but there is nothing like this in the manifestation of the Lord. There accumulated impressions, destiny and mutability plays no role. In the jail there are prisoners as well as the superintendent. The prisoner is in jail due to the bondage of his actions whereas for the superintendent there is no such bondage of action. He visits the jail for controlling and inspecting it. The embodied being is imprisoned by his actions, circumstances, tendencies, but the Supreme is under no such imprisonment or bondage. He is free, then what is the reason for His manifesting in this world? The following two verses are clarifying this secret and the fact of incarnation (avataarhood)-