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Krṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead
qualities, but all those incarnations are not on the same level. You are the original lamp. Other incarnations may possess the same candle power as the original lamp, but the original lamp is the beginning of all light. And because You are not one of the creations of this material world, even after the annihilation of this world, Your existence as You are will continue.
“Because You are the original person, You are therefore described in the  Gopāla-tāpanī  (the Vedic  Upaniṣad ), as well as in the  Brahma-samhitā , as  govindam ādi-puruṣam . Govinda is the original person, the cause of all causes. In the  Bhagavad-gītā  also it is stated that You are the source of the Brahman effulgence. No one should conclude that Your body is like an ordinary material body. Your body is  akṣara , indestructible. The material body is always full of threefold miseries, but Your body is  sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha : full of being, bliss, knowledge and eternality. You are also  nirañjana  because Your pastimes, as the little son of mother Yaśodā or the Lord of the  gopīs , are never contaminated by the material qualities. And although You exhibited Yourself in so many cowherd boys, calves and cows, Your transcendental potency is not reduced. You are always complete. As it is described in the Vedic literature, even if the complete is taken away from the complete—Supreme Absolute Truth—it yet remains the complete, Supreme Absolute Truth. And although many expansions from the complete are visible, the complete is one without a second. Since all Your pastimes are spiritual, there is no possibility of their being contaminated by the material modes of nature. When You place Yourself subordinate to Your father and mother, Nanda and Yaśodā, You are not reduced in Your potency; this is an expression of Your loving attitude for Your devotees. There is no other competitor of second identity than Yourself. A person with a poor fund of knowledge concludes that Your pastimes and appearance are simply material designations. You are transcendental to both nescience and knowledge, as it is confirmed in the  Gopāla-tāpanī . You are the original  amṛta  (nectar of immortality), indestructible. As it is confirmed in the  Vedas ,  amṛtam śāśvatam brahme . Brahman is the eternal, the supreme origin of everything, who has no birth or death.
“In the  Upaniṣads  it is stated that the Supreme Brahman is as effulgent as the sun and is the origin of everything, and anyone who can understand that original person becomes liberated from the material conditional life. Anyone who can simply be attached to You by devotional service can know Your actual position, Your birth, appearance, disappearance and activities. As confirmed in the  Bhagavad-gītā , simply by understanding Your constitutional position, appearance and disappearance, one can be immediately elevated to the spiritual kingdom after quitting this present