When Narada went to test Lord Krishna’s omnipresence, and the heavenly beauty of Lord Krishna’s city, Dwarka:
Once great sage Narada heard of Lord Krishna had marrying sixteen thousand wives after he released them from the demon Narakasura. Narada became astonished that how it is possible for Lord Krishna to expand himself into sixteen thousand forms and living with all of his wives simultaneously in different palaces and managing his household affairs with so many wives. While traveling all over the universes Narada also got very tired and was very eager to see Lord Krishna, besides he had also heard a lot about the extremely beautiful city of Lord Krishna namely Dwarka. So he was very eager to see the city as well. With all those purposes in mind at last Narada landed in Dwarka.
The moment Narada stepped in Dwarka; he saw the City’s gardens and parks were full of various kinds of very beautiful flowers of different colors and orchards, some of them were overloaded with a variety of fruits. Sweet smells of flowers and fruits coming from those trees made the atmosphere very pleasant. The lakes were full of blue and red lotus, nice swans and cranes were swimming in the ponds whose voices resounded everywhere. The highways, lanes, streets, crossings and marketplaces were beautifully decorated.
In the city there were many great palaces built of first-class marble with gates and doors made of silver. The posts of the houses and palaces were bedecked with jewels such as touchstone, sapphires and emeralds, and the floors gave off a beautiful luster
On both sides of every path there were bushes, and at regular intervals there were large trees shading the avenues so that the sunshine would not bother the passersby, making the area pleasantly cool. There were many fountains made all over the city which were constantly spraying Cool water. There was a Cool breeze blowing all the time throughout the City making the atmosphere even more pleasant. The city’s architectural plans were personally designed by Viswakarma, (The engineer of the demigods). All these made Dwarka a heavenly city. Seeing all these Narada got stunned at first place, he thought in mind that it’s unbelievable, how can be any city such beautiful on earth, it’s easily the most beautiful place he had ever visited (including the heaven). All his tiredness vanished in a moment, he felt like his whole body and mind filled with fresh energy since he stepped in Dwarka. No wonder after that Narada, quite regularly visited Dwarka.
Lord Krishna also made many residential quarters in the city. These residential quarters numbered more than sixteen thousand, and in each of them resided a different queen of him. Narada first entered one of these palaces.
He saw the palace is unbelievably beautiful and extremely well decorated. The walls as well as the arches between the pillars were glowing from the decorations of different kinds of sapphires. Throughout the palace there were many canopies made by Viswakarma that were decorated with strings of pearls. The chairs and other furniture were made of ivory, bedecked with gold and diamonds, and jeweled lamps dissipated the darkness within the palace. There was so much incense and fragrant gum burning that the scented fumes were coming out of the windows.
There were many maidservants, all of whom were decorated with gold necklaces, bangles and beautiful saris. There were also many male servants, who were nicely dressed in cloaks and turbans and jeweled earrings. Beautiful as they were, the servants were all engaged in different household duties.
There he saw Lord Krishna was sitting with one of his primary queens Rukmini. Rukmini personally was engaged in fanning Lord Krishna. Sri Krishna is the Supreme personality of Godhead, worshiped even by Narada, but still as soon as he saw Narada enter the palace, he immediately stood up to honor him. Sri Krishna not only did a bow down, but he also touched the feet of Narada and with folded hands and requested him to sit on his chair.
He washed the feet of the sage Narada. Narada did not object, knowing well that the Lord did so to teach everyone how to respect saintly persons. Welcoming him with sweet nectarine words, Lord Krishna addressed Narada "What can I do in your service?"
Narada replied, "My dear Lord, this kind of behavior by Your Lordship is not at all astonishing because you are the Supreme, master of all species of living entities. It is my great fortune that I have been able to see your lotus feet today. My Lord, You are unlimited; there is no limit to your opulence. My dear Lord, You have very kindly asked what you can do for me. In answer to this I simply request that I may not forget your lotus feet at any time. I do not care where I may be, but I pray that I may be allowed to constantly remember your lotus feet." Sri Krishna then smiled and told Narada as told as you wish, may all your wishes get fulfilled.
But still Narada was eager to see weather God is omnipresent or not, so after departing from the palace of Rukmini Narada entered another palace. There also he saw Sri Krishna engaged in playing chess, along with his dear wife and Uddhava. There also seeing Narada, Sri Krishna immediately got up from his seat and worshiped and welcomed him with as much of care as he had in the palace of Rukmini. After worshiping him properly, Lord Krishna acted as if he did not know what had happened in the palace of Rukmini. He therefore told Narada, "My dear sage, when Your Holiness comes here, you are full in yourself, you don't require anyone's help. Still under the circumstances, what can I do for you?
Seeing Lord Krishna there Narada got perplexed, didn’t know what to ask, he thought it’s better not to ask for anything to God, don’t know what next is installed. So without any further discussion, he simply left that palace silently. He then entered another palace. This time Narada saw Lord Krishna engaged as an affectionate father petting his small children. From there he entered another palace and saw Lord Krishna engaged in offering oblations to the sacrificial fire and performing the ritualistic ceremonies of the Vedas. In one palace he found Lord was engaged in feeding Brahmans after performing ritualistic yajnas. In another palace, Narada found Krishna engaged in silently chanting the Gayatri mantra, another place he found Krishna practicing fighting with a sword and shield. Elsewhere Narada found Him lying down on His bedstead taking rest, and somewhere else He was found sitting in His chair, being praised by the prayers of His different devotees. In some of the palaces He was found consulting with ministers on important matters of business. One palace Narada seen Lord Krishna hearing the narrations of the Purans or histories, by narrating important instances in the history of the universe.
In this way, Saint Narada entered each and every one of the sixteen thousand palaces of the queens of Lord Krishna. And in each of the palaces Narada found Lord Krishna was not only present but also engaged in different kinds of work.
Narada saw all these activities of the Lord, who played the role of an ordinary human in order to manifest the activities of His internal potency. Seeing all that Narada was smiling within himself and he began to address the Lord, "My dear Lord of all mystic powers, object of the meditation of great mystics, you are truly the supreme, the extent of your mystic power is inconceivable, even to mystics like Lord Brahma and Lord Siva. But by your mercy, you have very kindly revealed me some of your mystic powers. My dear Lord, You are worshiped by all, demigods and predominating deities of all fourteen planetary systems. Now please give me your blessings so that I may be able to travel all over the universes singing the glories of your transcendental activities."
Lord Krishna then replied, "O dear Narada, you know that I am the supreme instructor and perfect follower of all religious principles. I am therefore personally executing such duties in order to teach the whole world how to act. My dear son, it is my desire that you not be bewildered by such demonstrations of my internal energy."
Thus Narada saw one single Krishna living in sixteen thousand palaces by his plenary expansions. Due to His inconceivable energy, he was visible in each and every individual queen's palace. Lord Krishna has unlimited power, and Narada's astonishment was boundless upon observing again and again the demonstration of Lord Krishna's internal energy.
Still Lord Krishna behaved by his personal example as if He were very much attached to the four principles of civilized life, namely religiousness, economic development, sense gratification and salvation. These four principles of material existence are necessary for the spiritual advancement of human society, and although Lord Krishna had no need to do so, He exhibited his household activities so that people might follow in his footsteps for their own interest. And also he has shown that he is literally present everywhere at the same time.
Chanting god’s name and being assured that its only God, who is truly omnipresent and capable of doing anything, and even after all this capabilities its possible only for the supreme Lord to act and leading life, doing duties just like a ordinary human to set example for human beings how to lead life for the betterment of society. Narada was very much pleased by seeing the Lord's activities in Dwarka, and while traveling the heavenly city and having seen the supreme lord all his purposes got fulfilled thus he departed.
Let's explain a bit in Scientific way about God’s omnipresence
Scientific explanation of how it’s possible for anyone to present same time in different place. Many of the great scientists and scholars says that actually at the highest level of understanding of GOD, we will find Science and Spiritually actually go hand to hand, and GOD’s science is always ahead than our contemporary understanding of science. That’s why they say where science reaches its boundary from there starts the boundary of GOD, and So He is always the supreme.
But how it’s possible someone to present in different places at the same time. If human can make clones or robots then it’s just child’s play for God to make his replica in different places in no time.
On other way also it’s possible; it’s possible if for someone like God, who can travel faster than anything. So actually in no time he can travel everywhere. So God can travel so fast that He can be present in everywhere same time (according to our senses). Didn’t get it, right ??
It’s just like according to him we are moving in SUPER SUPER Slow motion. So slow we are that within a blink of our eyes God can travel the entire universe more than billion times.
Say a Bus travels in a circular route around a city and it has Four stoppages on its circular route namely A, B, C and D. While traveling, the bus stops in all those stoppages. Now think the bus travels so fast that within just One blink of an eye it can “just” travel the entire circular route Once.
Means bus speed = one circle per one blink.
So in one blink of an eye the bus can travel the entire circular route once. Such as starting from A to again returning back to A), or (starting from B to again returning back to B) or similarly (C-C) and (D-D) the time bus takes one blink time.
So, Within that one blink of eye the bus travels from “A” to “B” to “C” to “D” and last “D” to again back to A. (mind it, it’s also taking pause in all the stoppages on its way in that One blink time). So a person standing on stoppage “A” will see the bus is always standing on stoppage “A” because within his blink of eye it has traveled the entire circular route and again returned to A, what he couldn’t notice is that the bus actually traveled back to A, because the bus traveled while he closed his eyes (in this case within a blink of his eye) so when he opened his eyes he sees the bus is standing there all the time, which is actually not the case, we know. It’s like that, similarly everyone else standing on the other stoppages will experience the same that bus is standing all the time on their stoppages because it traveled while they were closing their eyes. Got it.
In God’s case he can travel or stop and can do whatever he wants, and also travel the entire universe billion or uncountable times within a blink of our eyes if he wants. So it seemed to Narada that, Lord Krishna was present in every palace at the same time, which was actually not or actually he was present creating his clones in no time because God is capable of doing anything.
