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Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta
TRANSLATION
Brahmā, Viṣṇu and Śiva are qualitative incarnations. Empowered incarnations are those like the Kumāras, King Pṛthu and Mahāmuni Vyāsa [the compiler of the Vedas].
TEXT 68
হূইক্লপে হয় ভগবানের প্রকাশ ।
একে ত’ প্রকাশ হয়, আরে ত’ বিলাস ॥ ৬৮ ॥
dui-rūpe haya bhagavānera prakāśa eke ta’ prakāśa haya, āre ta’ vilāsa
SYNONYMS
dui-rūpe —in two forms;  haya —are;  bhagavānera —of the Supreme Personality of Godhead;  prakāśa —manifestations;  eke —in one;  ta’ —certainly;  prakāśa —manifestation;  haya —is;  āre —in the other;  ta’ —certainly;  vilāsa —engaged in pastimes.
TRANSLATION
The Personality of Godhead exhibits Himself in two kinds of forms: prakāśa and vilāsa.
PURPORT
The Supreme Lord expands His personal forms in two primary categories. The  prakāśa  forms are manifested by Lord Kṛṣṇa for His pastimes, and their features are exactly like His. When Lord Kṛṣṇa married sixteen thousand queens in Dvārakā, He did so in sixteen thousand  prakāśa  expansions. Similarly, during the  rāsa  dance He expanded Himself in identical  prakāśa  forms to dance beside each and every  gopī  simultaneously. When the Lord manifests His  vilāsa  expansions, however, they are all somewhat different in their bodily features. Lord Balarāma is the first  vilāsa  expansion of Lord Kṛṣṇa, and the four-handed Nārāyaṇa forms in Vaikuṇṭha expand from Balarāma. There is no difference between the bodily forms of Śrī Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma except that Their bodily colors are different. Similarly, Śrī Nārāyaṇa in Vaikuṇṭha has four hands, whereas Kṛṣṇa has only two. The expansions of the Lord who manifest such bodily differences are known as  vilāsa-vigrahas .
TEXTS 69-70
একই বিগ্রহ যদি হয় বহুরূপ ।
আকারে ত’ ভেদ মাহি, একই স্বরূপ ॥ ৬৯ ॥
মহিষী-বিবাহে, যেছে যেছে কৈল রাস ।
ইহাকে কহিয়ে কুক্ষের মুখ্য ‘প্রকাশ’ ॥ ৭০ ॥
eka-i vigraha yadi haya bahu-rūpa
ākāre ta’ bheda nāhi, eka-i svarūpa