Kṛṣṇa came. And you have seen our Kṛṣṇa book, how much He's engaged in killing the demons. In killing the demons. So Kṛṣṇa says that, "I come down," paritrāṇāya sādhūnāṁ vināśāya (BG 4.8), "to kill the demons." So killing business is there, Kṛṣṇa. Although His killing and protecting the same thing, because He's absolute, but the killing business is there.
Therefore Kṛṣṇa has . . . the Nārāyaṇa has got two hands, club and disc. That is for killing the demons. And two hands, conchshell and lotus flower. That is for the devotees. The devotees are protected. Kaunteya pratijānīhi na me bhaktaḥ praṇaśyati (BG 9.31). Kṛṣṇa is bugling with His conchshell that "My devotees will not be vanquished." And the lotus flower is the symbol of blessing. It is in the hands of Lakṣmījī also, sometimes, blessing.
So somebody says that Kṛṣṇa appeared for this purpose, somebody says Kṛṣṇa appeared for this purpose, but the real conclusion is that Kṛṣṇa appeared for His own pleasure. Not, not being bound by any cause. Kṛṣṇa is fully independent. Just like we take our birth being bound by the cause of our karma. Kṛṣṇa does not come being bound up by somebody's request or by His karma. He comes out of His free will. Ātma-māyayā. It is said, ātma-māyayā. He's not compelled by any other's māyā. Just like we are compelled by the energy of Kṛṣṇa, external energy, this material energy.
We are compelled to take birth. Kṛṣṇa does not take birth in such condition. Ātma-māyayā. Not by the . . . because māyā is under the control of Kṛṣṇa. So how māyā can control Kṛṣṇa? One who thinks that Kṛṣṇa is also like us, controlled by māyā, they are called mūḍhas. Avajānanti māṁ mūḍhā mānuṣīṁ tanum āśritam (BG 9.11).
(aside) Read the purport little.
Pradyumna: "Brahmā, or the first living being born just after the creation, is the direct son of Nārāyaṇa. Nārāyaṇa, as Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu, first of all entered the material universe. Without spiritual contact matter cannot create."
Prabhupāda: This is the beginning of creation. Those who are finding out the original cause of material creation, they should know this fact, that creation takes place when there is spirit soul. That means living. The matter is not created . . . matter is created by the spirit soul, not the soul is created by matter. This is rascal theory, that this living condition, living force, living energy which we have got, it is created by material condition. This is Buddhist theory. At the present moment, the whole world is going on on this Buddhist theory, that under certain condition the matter develops living force. No. That is not. Actually the fact is: upon the living force, matter increases.
That we can understand very easily. Apart from our knowledge, within the womb of the mother how the body develops, we can see if a child is born, he grows; his body develops. But if the child is born dead, no spirit soul, it will not develop. Everyone knows that. Therefore the spirit is the basis of development of matter. Not that by development of matter spirit grows. No. That's not a fact. This is . . . everyone knows. Why a dead child does not grow? Because the spirit is not there. A tree grows so long there is life in it. A small seed of banyan tree, you sow in the soil and pour water favorably, then it grows, because the spirit soul is there. But if somehow or other . . . take, for example, you take one grain and fry it in the fire. If you sow it, it will not grow, because the spirit soul is not there.
Therefore they are searching after what is the original cause of creation. The original cause of creation is the spirit soul, as everything is growing. Matter is growing, developing, on account of the spirit soul. Similarly, the whole universe is growing on account of presence of Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu.