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Ete cha ansha kala punsah krishnas tu bhagwan swayam
Indrari vyakulam lokam mridayanti yuge yuge
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Ete—all these, Cha—and, Ansha—plenary portion, Kalah—portion of the plenary portion, Krishna—Lord Krishna, Tu—but, Bhagwan—the personality of Godhead, Swayam—in person, Indrari—the enemies of Indra, Vyakulam—disturbed, Lokam—all the planets, Mridyanti—gives protection, Yuge Yuge—in different ages.
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All the above mentioned incarnations are either plenary portion or portion of the plenary portion of the Lord but Lord Sri Krishna as above mentioned, is the Original Personality of Godhead and all of them advent themselves in all the Planets whenever there is disturbances by the atheists and the Lord incarnates to portect the theists.
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In this particular stanza Lord Sri Krishna the Personality of Godhead is distinguished from other incarnations. He is counted amongst the Avatars (incarnations) because out of His causeless mercy the Lord descends from His transcendental abode. The Avatar means one who descends. All the incarnations of the Lord including the Lord Himself descend on different planets of the material world as also in different species of life to fulfil a particular mission only. Some times He comes Himself and sometimes His different plenary portions or parts of the plenary portions or His differentiated portions directly or indirectly empowered by Him descend on this material world to execute certain specific function. Originally the Lord is full of all opulences, all prowess, all fames, all beauties, all knowledge and all renunciations. When they are partly manifested through the plenary portions or parts of the plenary portions at that time it should be noted that so much manifestation of His different prowess is required for that particular function. When in the room small electric bulbs are displayed it does not mean that the electric power house is limited by such powers of the small bulbs. The same power house can supply power to roll on large scale industrial dynamos with greater volts. Similarly the incarnations of the Lord display limited powers because so much power is needed in that particular time.
#$p#For example Lord Parshuram and Lord Nrishingha displayed unusual opulence by killing the disobedient Khastriyas for twenty one times and killing the great powerful Atheist Hiranya Kasipu respectively. Hiranya Kasipu was so powerful that even the demigods in other planets would tremble simply by the unfavourable display of his eyebrow. The demigods in the higher level of material existence are many many times well placed than the most well-to-do human beings, in respect of duration of life, beauty, wealth, parapharnalia, and in all other respects. Still they were afraid of Hiranya Kashipu. Thus we can simply imagine how much powerful was Hiranya Kashipu in this material world. But even such powerful Hiranya Kashipu was also pierced into small pieces by the nails of Lord Nrisingha. This means that any one materially powerful can not even stand the strength of the Lord's nails. Similarly Jamadagnya displayed His power to kill all the disobedient kings powerfully situated in their respective states. His empowered incarnation Narada and plenary incarnation Varaha as well as indirectly empowered Lord Buddha manifested His feature of creating faith in the mass of people. The incarnation of Rama, Dhanwantari manifested the feature of His fame, Valarama Mohini and Vamana exhibited the feature of His beauty. Duttatreya, Matsya, Kumara and Kapila manifested the feature of His transcendental knowledge. Nara, Narayana Rishis manifested the feature of His renunciation. So all the different incarnations of the Lord indirectly or directly powerful manifested different features but Lord Krishna the primeval Lord exhibited the complete features of Godhead and thus it was confirmed that He is the source of all other incarnations. And the most extraordinary feature exhibited by Lord Sri Krishna was His internal energetic manifestations of His pastimes with cowherd girls. His pastimes with the Gopis are all display of the transcendental existence, bliss and knowledge although it was manifested apparently in way of sex love. The specific attraction of His pastimes with Gopis is never to be misunderstood. The Bhagwat has described about this transcendental pastimes in the tenth Canto. And in order to reach to that position to understand the transcendental nature of Lord Krishna's pastimes with the Gopis, the Bhagwat has tried to promote the student gradually in nine other cantos continually.
#$p#According to Srila Jiva Goswami's statement which he has dealt within terms of authoritative sources, Lord Krishna is the source of all other incarnation and it is not that Lord Krishna has any other source of being incarnated. All the symptoms of the Supreme Truth in full are present in the Person of Lord Sri Krishna and in the Bhagwat Geeta the Lord emphatically declares that there is no other greater and equal truth than Himself. In this stanza the word "Swayam" is particularly mentioned to confirm it that Lord Krishna has no other source than Himself. Although in other places the incarnations are described as Bhagwan, because of the incarnation's specific function still no where it has been declared that He is the Supreme Lord Personality. In this stanza the word "Swayam" signifies the supremacy as the #b#Summum Bonum#/b#.
#$p#The Summun Bonum Krishna is one without a Second and He Himself has expanded Himself in various parts, portion and particles as Swayam Rupa, Swayam Prakash, Tadekatma, Prabhab, Baibhav, Vilash, Avatara, Avesh, Jivas all provided with innumerable energies just suitable to the respective persons and personalities. Learned scholars in the matter of transcendental subject has carefully analysed the Summum Bonum Krishna with sixty four attributes. And all the expansions or categories of the Lord possess only some percentages of the complete attributes. Sri Krishna is the possessor of the attributes cent per cent. And His personal expansions such as Swayam Prakash, Tadekatma up to the categories of the Avatars who are all Vishnu Tatwa possess up to ninety three percent of such transcendental attributes. Lord Shiva who is neither Avatara nor Avesh nor inbetween them possesses almost eighty four percent of the attributes. But the Jivas or the individual living beings in different status of life possesses up to the limit of seventy eight percent of the attributes. In the conditioned state of material existence the living being possesses all these 78 percent of the attributes in very minute quantity varying in terms of the pious life of the living being. The most perfect of the living being is Brahma the Supreme administrator of one universe. He possesses 78 percent of the attributes in full. All other demigods have the same attribute in less quantity while the human being possesses the attributes in very minute quantity. The standard of perfection for a human being is to develop the attributes up to 78 percent in full. The living being can never reach to the standard of possessing attributes like Shiva, Vishnu or Lord Krishna. A living being can become Godly by developing the 78 percent of transcendental attributes in fullness but he can never become a God like Shiva, Vishnu or Krishna. He can become a Brahma in due course. The Godly living being who are all residents of the planets in the spiritual sky are eternal associates of God in different spiritual planets called by the name of Haridhama and Maheshadhama. The abode of Lord Krishna on the top of all spiritual planets is called Krishna Loka or Golaka Vrindaban and the perfected living being by developing seventy eight percent of the above attributes in fullness can enter even in the planet of Krishnaloka after leaving the present material body.
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#dl##dd#ete cāṁśa-kalāḥ puṁsaḥ#/dd#
#dd#kṛṣṇas tu bhagavān svayam#/dd#
#dd#indrāri-vyākulaṁ lokaṁ#/dd#
#dd#mṛḍayanti yuge yuge#/dd##/dl#
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#i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=ete&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#ete#/i# — all these; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=ca&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#ca#/i# — and; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=aṁśa&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#aṁśa#/i# — plenary portions; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=kalāḥ&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#kalāḥ#/i# — portions of the plenary portions; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=puṁsaḥ&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#puṁsaḥ#/i# — of the Supreme; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=kṛṣṇaḥ&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#kṛṣṇaḥ#/i# — Lord Kṛṣṇa; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=tu&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#tu#/i# — but; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=bhagavān&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#bhagavān#/i# — the Personality of Godhead; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=svayam&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#svayam#/i# — in person; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=indra&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#indra-#a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=ari&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#ari#/i# — the enemies of Indra; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=vyākulam&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#vyākulam#/i# — disturbed; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=lokam&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#lokam#/i# — all the planets; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=mṛḍayanti&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#mṛḍayanti#/i# — gives protection; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=yuge&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#yuge #a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=yuge&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#yuge#/i# — in different ages.
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All of the above-mentioned incarnations are either plenary portions or portions of the plenary portions of the Lord, but Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa is the original Personality of Godhead. All of them appear on planets whenever there is a disturbance created by the atheists. The Lord incarnates to protect the theists.
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In this particular stanza Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the Personality of Godhead, is distinguished from other incarnations. He is counted amongst the #i#avatāras#/i# (incarnations) because out of His causeless mercy the Lord descends from His transcendental abode. #i#Avatāra#/i# means "one who descends." All the incarnations of the Lord, including the Lord Himself, descend on the different planets of the material world as also in different species of life to fulfill particular missions. Sometimes He comes Himself, and sometimes His different plenary portions or parts of the plenary portions, or His differentiated portions directly or indirectly empowered by Him, descend on this material world to execute certain specific functions. Originally the Lord is full of all opulences, all prowess, all fame, all beauty, all knowledge and all renunciation. When they are partly manifested through the plenary portions or parts of the plenary portions, it should be noted that certain manifestations of His different powers are required for those particular functions. When in the room small electric bulbs are displayed, it does not mean that the electric powerhouse is limited by the small bulbs. The same powerhouse can supply power to operate large-scale industrial dynamos with greater volts. Similarly, the incarnations of the Lord display limited powers because so much power is needed at that particular time.
#$p#For example, Lord Paraśurāma and Lord Nṛsiṁha displayed unusual opulence by killing the disobedient #i#kṣatriyas#/i# twenty-one times and killing the greatly powerful atheist Hiraṇyakaśipu. Hiraṇyakaśipu was so powerful that even the demigods in other planets would tremble simply by the unfavorable raising of his eyebrow. The demigods in the higher level of material existence many, many times excel the most well-to-do human beings, in duration of life, beauty, wealth, paraphernalia, and in all other respects. Still they were afraid of Hiraṇyakaśipu. Thus we can simply imagine how powerful Hiraṇyakaśipu was in this material world. But even Hiraṇyakaśipu was cut into small pieces by the nails of Lord Nṛsiṁha. This means that anyone materially powerful cannot stand the strength of the Lord's nails. Similarly, Jāmadagnya displayed the Lord's power to kill all the disobedient kings powerfully situated in their respective states. The Lord's empowered incarnation Nārada and plenary incarnation Varāha, as well as indirectly empowered Lord Buddha, created faith in the mass of people. The incarnations of Rāma and Dhanvantari displayed His fame, and Balarāma, Mohinī and Vāmana exhibited His beauty. Dattātreya, Matsya, Kumāra and Kapila exhibited His transcendental knowledge. Nara and Nārāyaṇa Ṛṣis exhibited His renunciation. So all the different incarnations of the Lord indirectly or directly manifested different features, but Lord Kṛṣṇa, the primeval Lord, exhibited the complete features of Godhead, and thus it is confirmed that He is the source of all other incarnations. And the most extraordinary feature exhibited by Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa was His internal energetic manifestation of His pastimes with the cowherd girls. His pastimes with the #i#gopīs#/i# are all displays of transcendental existence, bliss and knowledge, although these are manifested apparently as sex love. The specific attraction of His pastimes with the #i#gopīs#/i# should never be misunderstood. The #i#Bhāgavatam#/i# relates these transcendental pastimes in the Tenth Canto. And in order to reach the position to understand the transcendental nature of Lord Kṛṣṇa's pastimes with the #i#gopīs#/i#, the #i#Bhāgavatam#/i# promotes the student gradually in nine other cantos.
#$p#According to Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī's statement, in accordance with authoritative sources, Lord Kṛṣṇa is the source of all other incarnations. It is not that Lord Kṛṣṇa has any source of incarnation. All the symptoms of the Supreme Truth in full are present in the person of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, and in the #i#Bhagavad-gītā#/i# the Lord emphatically declares that there is no truth greater than or equal to Himself. In this stanza the word svayam is particularly mentioned to confirm that Lord Kṛṣṇa has no other source than Himself. Although in other places the incarnations are described as #i#bhagavān#/i# because of their specific functions, nowhere are they declared to be the Supreme Personality. In this stanza the word #i#svayam#/i# signifies the supremacy as the #i#summum bonum#/i#.
#$p#The #i#summum bonum#/i# Kṛṣṇa is one without a second. He Himself has expanded Himself in various parts, portions and particles as #i#svayaṁ-rūpa, svayam-prakāśa, tad-ekātmā, prābhava, vaibhava, vilāsa, avatāra, āveśa#/i#, and #i#jīvas#/i#, all provided with innumerable energies just suitable to the respective persons and personalities. Learned scholars in transcendental subjects have carefully analyzed the summum bonum Kṛṣṇa to have sixty-four principal attributes. All the expansions or categories of the Lord possess only some percentages of these attributes. But Śrī Kṛṣṇa is the possessor of the attributes cent percent. And His personal expansions such as #i#svayam-prakāśa, tad-ekātmā#/i# up to the categories of the #i#avatāras#/i# who are all #i#viṣṇu-tattva#/i#, possess up to ninety-three percent of these transcendental attributes. Lord Śiva, who is neither #i#avatāra#/i# nor #i#āveśa#/i# nor in between them, possesses almost eighty-four percent of the attributes. But the #i#jīvas#/i#, or the individual living beings in different statuses of life, possess up to the limit of seventy-eight percent of the attributes. In the conditioned state of material existence, the living being possesses these attributes in very minute quantity, varying in terms of the pious life of the living being. The most perfect of living beings is Brahmā, the supreme administrator of one universe. He possesses seventy-eight percent of the attributes in full. All other demigods have the same attributes in less quantity, whereas human beings possess the attributes in very minute quantity. The standard of perfection for a human being is to develop the attributes up to seventy-eight percent in full. The living being can never possess attributes like Śiva, Viṣṇu or Lord Kṛṣṇa. A living being can become godly by developing the seventy-eight-percent transcendental attributes in fullness, but he can never become a God like Śiva, Viṣṇu or Kṛṣṇa. He can become a Brahmā in due course. The godly living beings who are all residents of the planets in the spiritual sky are eternal associates of God in different spiritual planets called Hari-dhāma and Maheśa-dhāma. The abode of Lord Kṛṣṇa above all spiritual planets is called Kṛṣṇaloka or Goloka Vṛndāvana, and the perfected living being, by developing seventy-eight percent of the above attributes in fullness, can enter the planet of Kṛṣṇaloka after leaving the present material body.
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