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and Sri Gadadhara Pandit. Next, let us offer our respectful obeisances to
Svariipa-Damodara, who acted as the private secretary to Lord Caitanya
Mahaprabhu; and let us offer our respectful obeisances to Sri Vasudeva
Datta and the constant attendant of Lord Caitanya, Sri Govinda, and the
constant friend of Lord Caitanya, Mukunda, and also to Murari Gupta.
And let us offer our respectful obeisances. to the six Gosvamis of
Vrndavana, Sn Rupa Gosvami, Sn Sanatana Gosvami, Sri Raghunatha
Bhatta Gosvami, Sri Gopala Bhatta Gosvami, Sri Jiva Gesvami and Sri
Raghunatha Dasa Gosvami.

Krsna Himself has explained in the Bhagavad-gitd that He is the Supreme
Personality of Godhead. Whenever there are discrepancies in the regulative
principles of man’s religious life and a prominence of irreligious activities,
He appears on this earthly planet. In other words, when Lord Sri Krsna
appeared, there was a necessity of minimizing the load of sinful activities
accumulated on this planet, or in this universe. For affairs of the material
creation, Lord Maha-Visnu, the plenary portion of Krsna, is in charge.

When the Lord descends, the incarnation emanates from Visnu.
Maha-Visnu is the original cause of material creation, and from Him
GarbhodakaSayi-Visnu expands, and then Ksirodakasayi-Visnu. Generally,
all the incarnations appearing within this material universe are plenary
expansions from Ksirodakasayi-Visnu. Therefore, the business of mini-
mizing the overload of sinful activities on this earth does not belong to the
Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna Himself. But when Krsna appears,
all the Visnu expansions also join with Him. Krsna’s different expansions,
namely Narayana, the quadrupal expansion of Vasudeva, Sankarsana,
Pradyumna and Aniruddha, as well as the partial plenary expansion of
Matsya or the incarnation of fish, and other yuga-avatdras (incarnations
for the millennium), and the manvantara-avatdras, the incarnations of
Manus—all combine together and appear with the body of Krsna, the
Supreme Personality of Godhead. Krsna is the complete whole, and all
plenary expansions and incarnations always live with Him.

When Krsna appeared, Lord Visnu was also with Him. Krsna actually
appears to demonstrate His Vrndavana pastimes and to attract the for-
tunate conditioned souls and invite them back home, back to Godhead.
The killing of the demons was simultaneous to His Vrndavana activities
and was carried out only by the Visnu portion of Krsna.

In the Bhagavad-gita, Eighth Chapter, 2@th verse, it is stated that there
is another eternal nature, the spiritual sky, which is transcendental to this
manifested and nonmanifested matter. The manifested world can be seen
in the form of many stars and planetary systems, such as the sun, moon,
