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Krṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead
Krṣṇa, when He displayed His pastimes in Dvārakā, acted in His Vāsudeva capacity.
After visiting the spiritual world, Arjuna concluded that whatever opulence anyone can show within the material or spiritual worlds is all a gift of Lord Krṣṇa. Lord Krṣṇa is manifested in various forms, as  Viṣṇu-tattva  and  jīva-tattva , or, in other words, as  sāmśa  and  vibhinnāmśa .  Viṣṇu-tattva  is known as  sāmśa , and  jīva-tattva  is known as  vibhinnāmśa . He can, therefore, display Himself by His different transcendental pastimes, either in the portion of  sāmśa  or  vibhinnāmśa , as He likes, but still He remains the original Supreme Personality of Godhead .
The concluding portion of Krṣṇa's pastimes is found in the Nintieth Chapter of the Tenth Canto of  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam , and in this chapter Śukadeva Gosvāmī wanted to explain how Krṣṇa lived happily at Dvārakā with all opulences. Krṣṇa's opulence of strength has already been displayed in His different pastimes, and now it will be shown how His residence at Dvārakā displayed His opulences of wealth and beauty. In this material world, which is only a perverted reflection of the spiritual world, the opulences of wealth and beauty are considered to be the highest of all opulences. Therefore, while Krṣṇa stayed on this planet as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, His opulences of wealth and beauty had no comparison within the three worlds. Krṣṇa enjoyed sixteen thousand beautiful wives, and it is most significant that He lived at Dvārakā as the only husband of these hundreds and thousands of beautiful women. It is specifically stated in this connection that He was the only husband of sixteen thousand wives. It is, of course, not unheard of in the history of the world that a powerful king would keep many hundreds of queens, but although such a king might be the only husband of so many wives, he could not enjoy all of them at one time. Krṣṇa, however, enjoyed all of His sixteen thousand wives simultaneously.
Although it may be said that  yogīs  also can expand their bodies into many forms, the  yogis ' expansion and Lord Krṣṇa's expansion are not one and the same. Krṣṇa is therefore sometimes called  yogeśvara , the master of all  yogīs . In the Vedic literature we find that the  yogī  Saubhari Muni expanded himself into eight. But that expansion was like a television expansion. The television image is manifested in millions of expansions, but those expansions cannot act differently; they are simply reflections of the original and can only act exactly as the original does. Krṣṇa's expansion is not material like the expansion of the television or the  yogī . When Nārada visited the different palaces of Krṣṇa, he saw that Krṣṇa, in His different expansions, was variously engaged in each and every palace of the queens.