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Krṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead
The Supreme Personality of Godhead was engaged in His so-called household affairs in order to teach people how one can sanctify one's household life although he may be attached to the imprisonment of material existence. Actually, one is obliged to continue the term of material existence because of household life. But the Lord, being very kind upon householders, demonstrated the path of sanctifying ordinary household life. Because Krṣṇa is the center of all activities, a Krṣṇa conscious householder's life is transcendental to Vedic injunctions and is automatically sanctified.
Thus Nārada saw one single Krṣṇa 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 Krṣṇa has unlimited power, and Nārada's astonishment was boundless upon observing again and again the demonstration of Lord Krṣṇa's internal energy. Lord Krṣṇa 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 Krṣṇa had no need to do so, He exhibited His household activities so that people might follow in His footsteps for their own interest. Lord Krṣṇa satisfied the sage Nārada in every way. Nārada was very much pleased by seeing the Lord's activities in Dvārakā, and thus he departed.
In narrating the activities of Lord Krṣṇa in Dvārakā, Śukadeva Gosvāmī explained to King Parīkṣit how Lord Krṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, descends on this material universe by the agency of His internal potency and personally exhibits the principles which, if followed, can lead one to achieve the ultimate goal of life. All the queens in Dvārakā, more than sixteen thousand in number, engaged their feminine attractive features in the transcendental service of the Lord by smiling and serving, and the Lord was pleased to behave with them exactly as a perfect husband enjoying household life. One should know definitely that such pastimes cannot be performed by anyone but Lord Śrī Krṣṇa. Lord Śrī Krṣṇa is the original cause of the creation, maintenance and dissolution of the whole cosmic manifestation. Anyone who attentively hears the narrations of the Lord's pastimes in Dvārakā or supports a preacher of the Krṣṇa consciousness movement will certainly find it very easy to traverse the path of liberation and taste the nectar of the lotus feet of Lord Krṣṇa. And thus he will be engaged in His devotional service.
Thus ends the Bhaktivedanta purport of the Second Volume, Fourteenth Chapter, of Krṣṇa, "The Great Sage Nārada Visits the Different Homes of Lord Krṣṇa."