animals, He is not an animal. He is not a man, not a ṛṣi, nor a fish. Krona is the original source of everything and the sum totas - of everything. He appears as the supreme youth, and His He is eternally the Supreme Lord, in all circumstances. whole body is composed of spiritual bliss. He is the shelter and master of everyone. "Kṛṣṇa, who is known as Govinda, is the Lord Kṛṣṇa has many pastimes, of which His pastimes as a supreme controller. He has an eternal blissful, spiritual body, He is human being are the best. His form as a human being is the supreme the origin of all, He has no other origin, for He is the prime cause transcendental form. In this form He is a cowherd boy. He carries of all causes. The original Supreme Personality of Godhead is a flute in His hand and He is youthful. He is also an expert dancer. Kṛṣṇa. His original name is Govinda. He is full of all opulences and All this is just suitable for His pastimes as a human being. In the His eternal abode is known as Goloka Vmndavana." final portion of the book the reader will behold the Lord's pastimes
with the gopīs in Vṛndāvana and His pastimes as the most munifi- People with less intelligence consider the Supreme Truth to be cent incarnation as Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. impersonal, but He is a transcendental person, and this is con- firmed in all Vedic literatures. As we are all individual living beings The Bhāgavatam's ontological presentation discloses the indi- and have our individuality, the Supreme Absolute Truth is also, in vidual identity of Godhead, and it is displayed in the utmost the ultimate issue, a person, and a realization of the Personality of revelation of the Absolute Truth as the Divine Couple Rādhā Godhead is realization of all of the transcendental features of His and Kṛṣṇa. If God is truly complete and absolute, He must also have complete form. The complete whole is not formless. If He is a female manifestation. Śrī Rādhā is the female counterpart to the formless, or if He is less than any other thing, then He cannot be Male Personality of Godhead, Śrī Kṛṣṇa. It would be an error to the complete whole. The complete whole must have everything • project our limited conceptions upon Them, since They are within our experience and beyond our experience, otherwise it completely transcendental. They are spiritual lovers, thusenjoying cannot be complete. each other's association in a truly transcendental way. In the most
complete exposition of the nature of the Absolute Truth, Śrī Rādhā Since the ultimate purpose of all Vedic Knowledge is to and Śrī Krena both are eternal expressions of that same Absolute acknowledge Śrī Kṛṣṇa, this implies understanding His different Truth. Rādhārāṇī is the predominated Moiety whereas Kṛṣṇa is the manifestations or incarnations also. Lord Kṛṣṇa is always relating predominating Moiety. Sages of bygone eras have declared that with His eternal associates or pure devotees, and with the demigods only through purified senses may one charm the Lord's attention. who are also devotees of the Lord engaged in managerial affairs. Thus, He can only be reached by the devotees through the path of The illustrations in the first section of Kṛṣṇa Art depict different bhakti-yoga (B.G.-18.55). Śrī Rādhā is the perfect worshiper of direct pastimes of the Lord and His devotees, as well as the pastimes Her devotional example inspires all devotees, especially among the demigods. One should not mistake the forms of the those who are attracted to the most exalted and confidential of demigods for the forms of the Lord. The demigods are highly the relationships towards the Lord, i.e., the transcendental elevated living entities in charge of cosmic administrative affairs, mellowness of conjugal devotional service. but they are still conditioned in the material, or phenomenal world. Though they are above the ordinary living entities, and they Although Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa are the ultimate expression of the reside in more elevated planetary systems, the demigods are of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, They Themselves descend on same nature as the human beings and the rest of living entities in earth to bestow upon Their pure devotees the boon of devotional this mortal world. Lord Śiva, who belongs to a superior nature than service. The Supreme Absolute Truth descends sometimes as Lord the living entities, is regarded as the most exalted demigod and Kṛṣṇa as He is, and sometimes as Lord Caitanya, who is the same devotee of Śrī Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa and Rādhā combined. Lord Caitanya is Kṛṣṇa imbued with
the golden complexion and mood of Śrī Rādhā. "The Kṛṣṇa The middle section of the book illustrates Kṛṣṇa's incarnations conception of divinity is so irresistible that even Kṛṣṇa Himself and His different manifestations as Lord Nārāyaṇa and Lord becomes overwhelmed by His own potency and is madly engaged Rāmacandra. The Lord is the all-pervading "Supersoul of all in tasting His own sweetness, dancing in ecstasy and thereby existence," and yet He appears in the form of a boar amongst the distributing that sweetness to everybody. Devotion to Kṛṣṇa is animals, in the form of a human being as Rāma, Kṛṣṇa, etc., in the automatic, natural, happy, and spontaneous." Thus, in His incar- form of a ṛṣi like Nara-Nārāyaṇa, and in the form of an aquatic like nation as Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, Lord Kṛṣṇa appeared to fulfill a fish. Yet it is said that He is unborn, and He has nothing to do. His confidential desires and consequently to disseminate the In the sruti-mantra it is said that the Supreme Brahman has nothing special significance of chanting the mahā-mantra Hare Kṛṣṇa, to do. No one is equal to or greater than Him. He has manifold Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare / Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, energies, and everything is performed by Him perfectly by automatic . Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare. knowledge, strength, and activity. All these statements prove unquestionably that the Lord's activities, forms, and deeds are all The Lord is situated in all universes in different forms just to inconceivable to our limited thinking power, and because He is please His devotees. Thus, the Lord destroys irreligious principles inconceivably powerful, everything is possible in Him. Therefore, and establishes dharma, religiosity. The Vedas prescribe that one no one can calculate Him exactly; every action of the Lord is must not differentiate between the forms of the Lord, since they are bewildering to the common man. He cannot be understood by the all manifestations of the same transcendental source. The Lord Vedic knowledge, but He can be easily understood by the pure appears out of His own will, He is not forced by the conditions of devotees because they are intimately related with Him. The material nature. He is therefore described as the vibhū, or the al-