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Remembrance of Lord Kṛṣṇa
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transferred to the spiritual sky, but those who awakened to love of God were transferred to the planets of the transcendental sky.
Uddhava seemingly lamented that his own position was less than that of the warriors on the Battlefield of Kurukṣetra because they had attained to Vaikuṇṭha, whereas he remained to lament the disappearance of the Lord.
TEXT 21
स्वयं स्वसाम्यातिशयस्यधीशः  
 स्वाराज्यलक्ष्म्याप्तसमस्तकामः ।  
 बलिं हरद्भिश्चिरलोकपालैः  
 किरोटक्रोटयेडितपदपीठः ॥२१॥
svayam tv asāmyātiśayas tryadhīśaḥ 
    svārājya-lakṣmyāpta-samastakāmaḥ 
    balim haradbhiś cira-loka-pālaiḥ 
    kirīṭa-koṭy eḍitapādapīṭhaḥ
svayam—Himself; tu—but; asāmya—unique; atiśayaḥ—greater; tri- 
    adhīśaḥ—Lord of the three; svārājya—independent supremacy; lakṣmī— 
    fortune; āpta—achieved; samastakāmaḥ—all desires; balim—worshiping 
    paraphernalia; haradbhiḥ—offered by; cira-loka-pālaiḥ—by the eternal 
    maintainers of the order of creation; kirīṭa-koṭi—millions of helmets; 
    eḍita-pāda-pīṭhaḥ—feet honored by prayers.
TRANSLATION
Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa is the Lord of all kinds of threes and is independently supreme by achievement of all kinds of fortune. He is worshiped by the eternal maintainers of the creation, who offer Him the paraphernalia of worship by touching their millions of helmets to His feet.
PURPORT
Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa is so mild and merciful, as described in the above verses, and yet He is the Lord of all kinds of threes. He is the Supreme Lord of the three worlds, the three qualities of material nature and the three  puruṣas  (Kāraṇodakaśāyī, Garbhodakaśāyī and Kṣīrodakaśāyī Viṣṇu). There are innumerable universes, and in each and every universe there are different manifestations of Brahmā, Viṣṇu and Rudra. Besides that, there is the Śeṣa-mūrti who bears all the universes on His hoods. And Lord Kṛṣṇa is the Lord of all of them. As the incarnation of Manu, He is the original source