Preface
nivrtta-tarsair upagiyamanad
bhavausadhac chrotramano’bhiramat
ka uttama-sloka-gunanuvadat
puman virajyeta vind pasughnat
(Srimad-Bhagavatam 10.1.4)

In these Western countries, when someone sees the cover of a book like
Krsna, he immediately asks, ““Who is Krsna? Who is the girl with Krsna?”
etc.

The immediate answer is that Krsna is the Supreme Personality of
Godhead. How is that? Because He conforms in exact detail to descriptions
of the Supreme Being, the Godhead. In other words, Krsna is the Godhead
because He is all-attractive. Outside the principle of all-attraction, there is
no meaning to the word Godhead. How is it one can be all-attractive? First
of all, if one is very wealthy, if he has great riches, he becomes attractive
to’ the people in general. Similarly, if someone is very powerful, he also
becomes attractive, and if someone is very famous, he also becomes
attractive, and if someone is very beautiful or wise or unattached to
all kinds of possessions, he also becomes attractive. So from practical
experience we can observe that one is attractive due to 1) wealth,
2) power, 3) fame, 4) beauty, 5) wisdom, and 6) renunciation. One who
is in possession of all six of these opulences at the same time, who
possesses them to an unlimited degree, is understood to be the Supreme
Personality of Godhead. These opulences of the Godhead are delineated
by Paragara Muni, a great Vedic authority.

We have seen many rich persons, many powerful persons, many famous
persons, many beautiful persons, many learned and scholarly persons, and
persons in the renounced order of life unattached to material possessions.

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