Text 1] The Advent of Lord Krsna: Introduction 17
His own worship to establish the principles of householder life.”
(Bhag. 9.24.66)

The Yadu dynasty belonged to the family descending from Soma, the
moon-god. Although the planetary systems are so arranged that the sun
comes first, before the moon, Pariksit Maharaja gave more respect to the
dynasty of the moon-god, the soma-vamsa, because in the Yadava
dynasty, descending from the moon, Krsna had appeared. There are two
different ksatriya families of the royal order, one descending from the
king of the moon planet and the other descending from the king of the
sun. Whenever the Supreme Personality of Godhead appears, He
generally appears in a ksatriya family because He comes to establish
religious principles and the life of righteousness. According to the Vedic
system, the ksatriya family is the protector of the human race. When the
Supreme Personality of Godhead appeared as Lord Ramacandra, He ap-
peared in the siirya-vamsa, the family descending from the sun-god, and
when He appeared as Lord Krsna, He did so in the Yadu dynasty, or
yadu-varnsa, whose descent was from the moon-god. In the Ninth Canto,
Twenty-fourth Chapter, of Srimad-Bhagavatam, there is a long list of
the kings of the yadu-vamsa. All the kings in both the soma-varhsa and
stirya-varnsa were great and powerful, and Maharaja Pariksit praised
them very highly (rajiam cobhaya-varnsyanaém caritarn paramad-
bhutam). Nonetheless, he wanted to hear more about the soma-varhsa
because that was the dynasty in which Krsna had appeared.

The supreme abode of the Personality of Godhead, Krsna, is de-
scribed in Brahma-samhité as the abode of cintémani: cintémani-pra-
kara-sadmasu kalpavrksa-laksavrtesu surabhir abhipadlayantam. The
Vrndavana-dhama on this earth is a replica of that same abode. As stated
in Bhagavad-gita (8.20), in the spiritual sky there is another, eternal
nature, transcendental to manifested and unmanifested matter. The
manifested world can be seen in the form of many stars and planets such
as the sun and moon, but beyond this is the unmanifested, which is im-
perceptible to those who are embodied. And beyond this unmanifested
matter is the spiritual kingdom, which is described in Bhagavad-gitd as
supreme and eternal. That kingdom is never annihilated. Although
material nature is subject to repeated creation and annihilation, that
spiritual nature remains as it is eternally. In the Tenth Canto of Srimad-
Bhagavatam, that spiritual nature, the spiritual world, is described as
