340 Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead
Krsna, when He displayed His pastimes in Dvarak4, acted in His Vasudeva
capacity.

After visiting the spiritual world, Arjuna concluded that whatever opu-
lence anyone can show within the material or spiritual worlds is all a gift
of Lord Krsna. Lord Krsna is manifested in various forms, as Visnu-tattva
and jiva-tattva, or, in other words, as sarsa and vibhinnamésa. Visnu-tattva
is known as sdmésa, and jiva-tattva is known as vibhinnaméa. He can,
therefore, display Himself by His different transcendental pastimes, either
in the portion of sdéméa or vibhinnadméa, as He likes, but still He remains
the original Supreme Personality of Godhead .

The concluding portion of Krsna’s pastimes is found in the Nintieth
Chapter of the Tenth Canto of Srimad-Bhdgavatam, and in this chapter
Sukadeva Gosvami wanted to explain how Krsna lived happily at Dvaraka
with all opulences. Krsna’s opulence of strength has already been displayed
in His different pastimes, and now it will be shown how His residence at
Dvaraka displayed His opulences of wealth and beauty. In this material
world, which is only a perverted reflection of the spiritual world, the
opulences of wealth and beauty are considered to be the highest of all
opulences. Therefore, while Krsna stayed on this planet as the Supreme
Personality of Godhead, His opulences of wealth and beauty had no com-
parison within the three worlds. Krsna enjoyed sixteen thousand beautiful
wives, and it is most significant that He lived at Dvaraka as the only hus-
band of these hundreds and thousands of beautiful women. It is specifically
stated in this connection that He was the only husband of sixteen thousand
wives. It is, of course, not unheard of in the history of the world that a
powerful king would keep many hundreds of queens, but although such a
king might be the only husband of so many wives, he could not enjoy all
of them at one time. Krsna, however, enjoyed all of His sixteen thousand
wives simultaneously.

Although it may be said that yogis also can expand their bodies into
many forms, the yogis’ expansion and Lord Krsna’s expansion are not one
and the same. Krsna is therefore sometimes called yogesvara, the master of
all yogis. In the Vedic literature we find that the yogi Saubhari Muni ex-
panded himself into eight. But that expansion was like a television expan-
sion. The television image is manifested in millions of expansions, but
those expansions cannot act differently; they are simply reflections of the
original and can only act exactly as the original does. Krsna’s expansion is
not material like the expansion of the television or the yogi. When Narada
visited the different palaces of Krsna, he saw that Krsna, in His different
expansions, was variously engaged in each and every palace of the queens.
