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that He remains always in Vrindaban with all the inhabitants of Vrindaban. That Personal Form is again divided into two, known categorically as the  Prabhava  and  Baibhava  Forms. For example, Krishna expanded Himself in multiple Forms in the  Rasa  Dance. When He danced with the Gopi, He expanded Himself in multiple Forms to dance with each and every Gopi who took part in that dance. Similarly, He expanded Himself into 16,108 Forms at Dwarka when He married 16,108 wives.
There are some instances of great mystics also expanding their bodily features in a different way, but that sort of expansion by the Yoga process is not applicable to Krishna. In the Vedic history, for example, Saubhary Rishi, a sage, expanded himself into eight forms by the Yoga process, but that expansion was simply a manifestation, for Saubhary remained one. But as far as Krishna is concerned, when He manifested Himself in different Forms, each and every one of them was a separate individual. When Narada Muni visited Krishna at different palaces at Dwarka, he was astonished at this, and yet Narada is never astonished to see the expansion of the body of a Yogi since he knows the trick himself. Yet, in a verse in the  Srimad Bhagwatam , it states that Narada was astonished to see the expansions of Krishna. He wonders how the Lord was present in each and every house of the 16,108 palaces with His queens.
Krishna Himself was in a different Form with each queen, and He was acting in different ways. For example, in one Form He was talking with His wife, in another Form He was engaged with His children, and in yet another Form He was performing some household work. These different activities are called actions in the Lord's different emotions, and when He is in these "emotional" Forms, the expansions are known as  Vaibhavaprakash . Similarly, there are other unlimited expansions of the Forms of Krishna, but even when they are divided or expanded without limit, they are still one and the same. There is no difference between one Form and another; that is the Absolute nature of the Personality of Godhead.
In the  Srimad Bhagwatam  it is stated, in the Tenth Canto, Fortieth Chapter, that at the time when Akrura was carrying both Krishna and Valaram from Gokula to Mathura, he entered into the water of the Yamuna River and could see in the waters all the spiritual planets in the Spiritual Sky. He saw there the Lord in His Vishnu Form, along with Narada and the four Kumaras, and he saw how they were worshipping. This is described in the  Srimad Bhagwatam  as "Form." It is stated in the  Bhagavat Purana  that there are many worshippers who are purified by different processes of worship, such as the  Vaishnava ,