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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 2, Ch. 7]
bhūmeḥ —of the entire world;  sura-itara —other than godly persons;  varūtha —soldiers;  vimarditāyāḥ —distressed by the burden;  kleśa —miseries;  vyayāya —for the matter of diminishing;  kalayā —along with His plenary expansion;  sita-kṛṣṇa —not only beautiful but also black;  keśaḥ —with such hairs;  jātaḥ —having appeared;  kariṣyati —would act;  jana —people in general;  anupalakṣya —rarely to be seen;  mārgaḥ —path;  karmāṇi —activities;  ca —also;  ātma-mahima —glories of the Lord Himself;  upanibandhanāni —in relation to.
TRANSLATION
When the world is overburdened by the fighting strength of kings who have no faith in God, the Lord, just to diminish the distressed condition of the world, descends with His plenary portion. The Lord comes in His original form, with beautiful black hair. And just to expand His transcendental glories, He acts extraordinarily. No one can properly estimate how great He is.
PURPORT
This verse is especially describing the appearance of Lord Kṛṣṇa and His immediate expansion, Lord Baladeva. Both Lord Kṛṣṇa and Lord Baladeva are one Supreme Personality of Godhead. The Lord is omnipotent, and He expands Himself in innumerable forms and energies, and the whole unit is known as the one Supreme Brahman. Such extensions of the Lord are divided into two divisions, namely personal and differential. Personal expansions are called the  Viṣṇu-tattvas , and the differential expansions are called the  jīva-tattvas . And in such expansional activity, Lord Baladeva is the first personal expansion of Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
In the  Viṣṇu Purāṇa , as well as in the  Mahābhārata , both Kṛṣṇa and Baladeva are mentioned as having beautiful black hair, even in Their advanced age. The Lord is called  anupalakṣya-mārgaḥ  or, in-still more technical Vedic terms,  avāṅ-manasa-gocara : one who is never to be seen or realized by the limited sense perception of the people in general. In the  Bhagavad-gītā  it is said by the Lord,  nāhaṁ prakāśaḥ sarvasya yogamāyā samāvṛtaḥ  (Bg. 7.25). In other words, He reserves the right of not being exposed to anyone and everyone. Only the bona fide devotees can know Him by His specific symptoms, and out of such many, many symptoms, one symptom is mentioned here in this verse, that the Lord is  sita-kṛṣṇa-keśaḥ , or one who is observed always with beautiful black hair. Both Lord