408 Sri Caitanya-caritamrta

sarve nitydh Sasvatds ca
dehds tasya pardtmanah
hanopddéna-rahita
naiva prak¢tijah kvacit

“All the varied expansions of the Personality of Godhead are transcendental and
eternal, and all of them repeatedly descend to all the different universes of the
material creation. Their bodies, composed of eternity, bliss and knowledge, are ever-
lasting; there is no chance of their decaying, for they are not creations of the material
world. Their forms are concentrated spiritual existence, always complete with all
spiritual qualities and devoid of material contamination.”

Confirming these statements, the Ndrada-paficaratra asserts:

manir yathé vibhagena
nila-pitddibhir yutah

ripa-bhedam avdpnoti
dhydna-bhedat tathdcyutah

“The infallible Personality of Godhead can manifest His body in different ways
according to different modes of worship, just as the va/durya gem can manifest
itself in various colors, such as blue and yellow.”’ Each incarnation is distinct from
all the others. This is possible by the Lord’s inconceivable potency, by which He
can simultaneously represent Himself as one, as various partial forms and as;the
origin of these partial forms. Nothing is impossible for His inconceivable potencies.

Krsna is one without a second, but He manifests Himself in different bodies, as
stated by Narada in the Tenth Canto of Srimad-Bhdgavatam:

citram bataitad ekena
vapusd yugapat prthak
grhesu dvy-asta-sdhasram
striya eka uddvahat

“It is wonderful indeed that one Krsna has simultaneously become different Krsnas
in 16,000 palaces to accept 16,000 queens as His wives.”’ (Bhdg. 10.69.2) The
Padma Purdna also explains:

sa devo bahudhd bhitva
nirgunah purusottamah

ekibhaya punah Sete
nirdoso harir ddikrt

“The same Personality of Godhead, Purusottama, the original person, who is always
devoid of material qualities and contamination, can exhibit Himself in various forms
and at the same time lie down in one form.”
