View source for Sakha-candra-nyaya: the logic of seeing the moon through the branches of a tree

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<div class="heading">Although the moon appears to be located in the branches of a tree, it is actually situated very far away. Similarly, none of the avatāras, or incarnations, of Lord Kṛṣṇa are within this material world, but they are visible by the causeless mercy of the Lord.</div>
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 20.248|CC Madhya 20.248, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"There are innumerable incarnations of Kṛṣṇa, and there is no possibility of counting them. We can simply indicate them by giving the example of the moon and the branches of a tree."</p></div>
<div class="purport text"><p>Although the moon appears to be located in the branches of a tree, it is actually situated very far away. Similarly, none of the avatāras, or incarnations, of Lord Kṛṣṇa are within this material world, but they are visible by the causeless mercy of the Lord. We should not consider them to belong to this material world. As stated by Lord Kṛṣṇa in the Bhagavad-gītā ([[Vanisource:BG 9.11|BG 9.11]]):</p>
:avajānanti māṁ mūḍhā mānuṣīṁ tanum āśritam 
:paraṁ bhāvam ajānanto mama bhūta-maheśvaram 
<p>"Fools deride Me when I descend in the human form. They do not know My transcendental nature as the Supreme Lord of all that be."</p></div>
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