He always possesses the fresh beauty of youth, for He is eternally young. God, the Supreme Person, exists without any cause other than Himself, for He Himself is the cause of everything. Eternal, He is beyond cause and effect. He is the origin of all that is. Everything is created and manifested by the energy of the Supreme Lord, and when everything is destroyed or dissolved, the original energy returns to the body of the Lord. He is the Cause of all causes, whether at the beginning, in the middle or at the end.
By his unmotivated mercy, the Lord likes to depend on his devotees.
Krishna is God, the Supreme Person, the Master of all beings. The Sovereign Lord possesses the six perfections in their fullness; Beauty, Wealth, Fame, Power, Wisdom and Renunciation, and He is also extremely benevolent towards his devotee. Although He is complete in Himself, He nevertheless desires all beings to surrender themselves to Him and devote themselves to His service. This is what satisfies him.
Although He is complete in Himself, He likes his devotees to devoutly offer Him even a leaf, flower, fruit or water. The Lord sometimes asks his devotee to give Him something to eat, as if He were very hungry. Sometimes still, He appears in a dream to a holy being to tell him that his temple and his garden are dilapidated and that He is no longer very comfortable there; He then begs Him to restore them for Him. It can also happen that He is buried, and He then implores His devotee to come and save Him, as if He were unable to get out of trouble Himself. Or He asks a wise man to preach His glories throughout the world, though He alone is quite capable of carrying out this task. Thus, although the Sovereign Lord possesses everything and is self-sufficient, he depends on his devotees. This is why the relationship He maintains with them is extremely intimate. Only a holy being can understand how the Lord, though complete in Himself, depends on His devotee to accomplish some particular task. Krishna explains this well when He says to Arjuna, his devotee:
“Be, during this struggle, only an instrument in My hand.”
Krishna was quite capable, on his own, of winning the battle of Kuruksetra; nevertheless, He preferred to induce his devotee Arjuna to fight and take credit for the victory. Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, the Golden Avatar, could very well have made His Name and Mission known to the world; nevertheless, He preferred to depend on His devotees to fulfill this task. Considering all these points, the most important aspect of the autonomy of the Supreme Lord is that He chooses to depend on His devotees. This is what is called his unmotivated mercy. The holy being who has become aware of this unmotivated mercy of the Supreme Lord can know the notion of master and servant.
A particular body was granted to us to enjoy and suffer for a given time, and all this in accordance with our interested activities committed in our previous life. But this body belongs to Krishna, and it is through Krishna that we can fulfill our duty and offer it to the Lord, us, his eternal servants.
Lord Krishna says about this: “You have dedicated your life and body to My service. Your body does not belong to you, you have no right to remove it. I have many services to perform through you.”