His Forms are One and the Same
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or the Aryans, who also worship the Supreme Lord according to their convictions and their spiritual understanding. Each process of worship involves the understanding of different Forms of the Lord, as mentioned in the Scriptures, but the ultimate idea is to worship the Supreme Lord Himself.
In the feature of His  Vaibhavaprakash  the Lord manifests Himself as Valaram. The feature of Valaram is as good as Krishna; the difference is that Krishna is blackish and Valaram is whitish. The  Vaibhavaprakash  Form was also displayed when Krishna appeared in the four-handed Form of Narayana before Devaki when He entered this world, and then at the request of His parents He transformed Himself into a two-handed Form. Therefore, sometimes He becomes four-handed and sometimes He becomes two-handed. When He is in a Form of two hands, that is actually  Vaibhavaprakash , and when He is four-handed, that is  Vrabhavavilasa . In His Personal Form He is just like a cowherd boy, and He thinks Himself that; but when He is in the Vasudeva Form He thinks Himself the son of a Kshatriya, and He feels Himself also to be a Kshatriya, a princely administrator.
Form, Opulence, Beauty, Wealth, Attractiveness and Pastimes are fully exhibited in His Form as the Son of Nanda. In some of the  Vaishnava  literature it is found that sometimes, in His Form as Vasudeva, He becomes attracted to the Form of Govinda in Vrindaban. Sometimes, as Vasudeva, He desires to enjoy as Govinda does, although the Govinda Form and the Vasudeva Form are one and the same. There is a passage in the  Laleeta Madhava , Fourth Chapter, in which Krishna addresses Uddhava as follows: "My dear friend, this Govinda Form as a cowherd boy attracts Me. I wish to be like the damsels of Vraja, attracted by this Govinda Form." Similarly, in the Eighth Chapter, Krishna says: "O how wonderful It is! Who is this Personality? After seeing Him I am attracted by Him, so that now I am desiring to embrace Him just like Radhika." When this Form of Krishna becomes a little differentiated, it is called  Tadekatma .
In this  Tadekatmarupa  Form there are two divisions also: One is called  Svamsa . Both in the  Vilasa  and  Svamsa  Forms there are again many differential features, which are also divided into  Prabhava  and  Baibhava . As far as the  Vilasa  Forms are concerned, there are innumerable  Prabhava Vilasas : Krishna expands Himself as Vasudeva, Samkarshan, Pradyumna, Aniruddha. Sometimes the Lord thinks Himself a cowherd boy, and sometimes He thinks Himself the son of Vasudeva, a Kshatriya—and this "thinking" of Krishna is called "Pastimes."
In His  Prabhava Prakasa  and  Prabhava Vilasa  He is in the same Form, but