Text 5] Krsna Is the Source of All Incarnations 143
potency of the Lord for creation, and he is called Brahma. His power is like
the power of the sun reflected in valuable stones and jewels. When there is
no such living being to take charge of the post of Brahma, the Lord Him-
self becomes a Brahm and takes charge of the post.

Lord Siva is not an ordinary living being. He is the plenary portion of
the Lord, but because Lord Siva is in direct touch with material nature, he
is not exactly in the same transcendental position as Lord Visnu. The
difference is like that between milk and curd. Curd is nothing but milk,
and yet it cannot be used in place of milk.

The next incarnations are the Manus. Within one day’s duration of the
life of Brahma (which is calculated by our solar year as 4,300,000 x 1,000
years) there are fourteen Manus. Therefore there are 420 Manus in one
month of Brahma and 5,040 Manus in one year of Brahma. Brahma lives
for one hundred years of his age, and therefore there are 5,040 x 100 or
504,000 Manus in the duration of Brahma’s life. There are innumerable
universes with one Brahma in each of them, and all of them are created
and annihilated during the breathing time of the purusa. Therefore one
can simply imagine how many millions of Manus there are during one
breath of the purusa.

The Manus who are prominent within this universe are as follows:
Yajiia as Svayambhuva Manu, Vibhu as Svarocisa Manu, Satyasena as
Uttama Manu, Hari as Tamasa Manu, Vaikuntha as Raivata Manu, Ajita as
Caksusa Manu, Vamana as Vaivasvata Manu (the present age is under the
Vaivasvata Manu), Sarvabhauma as Savarni Manu, Rsabha as Daksasavarni
Manu, Visvaksena as Brahmasavarni Manu, Dharmasetu as Dharmasavarni
Manu, Sudhama as Rudrasavarni Manu, Yoge$vara as Devasavarni Manu,
and Brhadbhanu as Indra-savarni Manu. These are the names of one set of
fourteen Manus covering 4,300,000,000 solar years as described above.

Then there are the yugavataras or the incarnations of the millennia.
The yugas are known as Satya-yuga, Treta-yuga, Dvapara-yuga and Kali-
yuga. The incarnations of each yuga are of different color. The colors are
white, red, black and yellow. In the Dvapara-yuga, Lord Krsna in black
color appeared, and in the Kali-yuga Lord Caitanya in yellow color
appeared.

So all the incarnations of the Lord are mentioned in the revealed
scriptures. There is no scope for an imposter to become an incarnation,
for he must be mentioned in the sdstras. An incarnation does not declare
Himself to be an incarnation of the Lord, but great sages agree by the
symptoms mentioned in the revealed scriptures. The features of the
incarnation and the particular type of mission which He has to execute
