2 Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead

are the Supreme Personality of Godhead. In Your plenary portion of
Narayana or Visnu, You have four hands with different symbols—the
conchshell, disc, club and lotus flower. You are actually the owner of
everything, but in spite of Your being the Supreme Personality of God-
head, Narayana, You have descended in Vrndavana to act as the child of
Yasodamata, who sometimes used to tie You up with her ropes, and You
are celebrated, therefore, by the name Damodara.”

That Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Narayana, as
accepted by the citizens of Dvaraka, was later on confirmed by the great
Mayavadi philosophical leader, Sankaracarya. By accepting the Lord as
impersonal, he did not reject the Lord’s personal form. He meant that
everything which has form in this material world is subjected to creation,
maintenance and annihilation, but the Supreme Personality of Godhead,
Narayana, does not have a material form subjected to these limitations. In
order to convince the less intelligent class of men who take Krsna to be an
ordinary human being, Sahkaracarya therefore said that God is impersonal.
This impersonality means that He is not a person of this material condition.
He is a transcendental personality without a material body.

The citizens of Dvaraka addressed Lord Krsna not only as Damodara,
but also as Govinda, which indicates that Krsna is very affectionate to the
cows and calves; and just to refer to their intimate connection with
Krsna, they addressed Him as Yadunandana. He is the son of Vasudeva,
born in the Yadu dynasty. In this way, the citizens of Dvaraka concluded
that they were addressing Krsna as the supreme master of the whole
universe. They addressed Krsna in many different ways, proud of being
citizens of Dvaraka who could see Krsna daily.

When Satrajit was visiting the city of Dvaraka, the citizens felt great
pride to think that although Krsna was living in Dvaraka like an ordinary
human being, the demigods were coming to see Him. Thus they informed
Lord Krsna that the sun-god, with his appealing bodily effulgence, was
coming to see Him. The citizens of Dvaraka confirmed that the sun-god’s
coming into Dvaraka was not very wonderful, because people all over the
universe who were searching after the Supreme Personality of Godhead
knew that He had appeared in the family of the Yadu dynasty and was
living in Dvaraka as one of the members of that family. Thus the citi-
zens expressed their joy on this occasion. On hearing the statement of
His citizens, the all-pervasive Personality of Godhead, Krsna, simply
smiled. Being pleased with the citizens of Dvaraka, Krsna informed them
that the person whom they described as the sun-god was actually King
Satrajit, who had come to visit Dvaraka City to show his opulence
