Summary Description of Lord Krṣṇa's Pastimes
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although all of them are equally the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
The fifth excellence of Lord Krṣṇa's appearance is that He established the most excellent of all religious principles by His one statement in the  Bhagavad-gītā  that simply by surrendering unto Him, one can discharge all the principles of religious rites. In the Vedic literature there are twenty kinds of religious principles mentioned, and each of them is described in different  śāstras . But Lord Krṣṇa is so kind to the fallen conditioned souls of this age that He personally appeared and asked everyone to give up all kinds of religious rites and simply surrender unto Him. It is said that this age of Kali is three-fourths devoid of religious principles. Hardly one fourth of the principles of religion are still observed in this age. But by the mercy of Lord Krṣṇa, this vacancy of Kali-yuga has not only been completely filled, but the religious process has been made so easy that simply by rendering transcendental loving service unto Lord Krṣṇa by chanting His holy names, Hare Krṣṇa, Hare Krṣṇa, Krṣṇa Krṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare, one can achieve the highest result of religion, namely, being transferred to the highest planet within the spiritual world, Goloka Vṛndāvana. One can thus immediately estimate the benefit of Lord Krṣṇa's appearance and can understand that His giving relief to the people of the world by His appearance was not at all extraordinary.
Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmi thus concludes his description of the superexalted position of Lord Krṣṇa by glorifying Him in the following way: "O Lord Krṣṇa, all glories unto You. You are present in everyone's heart as Paramātmā. Therefore You are known as Jananivāsa, one who lives in everyone's heart." As confirmed in the  Bhagavad-gītā ,  īśvaraḥ sarva-bhūtānām hṛd-deśe 'rjuna tiṣṭhati : The Supreme Lord in His Paramātma feature lives within everyone's heart. This does not mean, however, that Krṣṇa has no separate existence as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The Māyāvādī philosophers accept the all-pervading feature of Parabrahman, but when Parabrahman, or the Supreme Lord, appears, they think that He appears under the control of material nature. Because Lord Krṣṇa appeared as the son of Devakī, the Māyāvādī philosophers accept Krṣṇa to be an ordinary living entity who takes birth within this material world. Therefore Śukadeva Gosvāmī warns them that  devakī-janma-vāda , which means that although Krṣṇa is famous as the son of Devakī, actually He is the Supersoul or the all-pervading Supreme Personality of Godhead. The devotees, however, take this word  devakī-janma-vāda  in a different way. The devotees understand that actually Krṣṇa was the son of mother Yaśodā. Although Krṣṇa first of all appeared as the son of Devakī, He immediately transferred Himself to the lap of mother Yaśodā, and His