Text 3] The Advent of Lord Krsna: Introduction 19
“Krsna, who is known as Govinda, is the supreme controller. He has an
eternal, blissful, spiritual body. He is the origin ‘of all. He has no other
origin, for He is the prime cause of all causes.”
yasyaika-nisvasita-kalam athavalambya
Jivanti loma-vilaja jagad-anda-nathah
visnur mahan sa iha yasya kald-viseso
govindam ddi-purusam tam aha bhajami
“The Brahmas, the heads of the innumerable universes, live only for the
duration of one breath of Maha-Visnu. I worship Govinda, the original
Lord, of whom Maha-Visnu is but a portion of a plenary portion.”
(Bs. 5.48)

Govinda, Krsna, is the original Personality of Godhead. Krsnas tu
bhagavan svayam. Even Lord Maha-Visnu, who by His breathing creates
many millions upon millions of universes, is Lord Krsna’s kald-visesa, or
plenary portion of a plenary portion. Mahd-Visnu is a plenary expansion
of Sankarsana, who is a plenary expansion of Narayana. Narayana is a
plenary expansion of the catur-vyiha, and the catur-vyiha are plenary ,
expansions of Baladeva, the first manifestation of Krsna. Therefore
when Krsna appeared with Baladeva, all the visnu-tattvas appeared with
Him.

Maharaja Pariksit requested Sukadeva Gosvami to describe Krsna and
His glorious activities. Another meaning may be derived from this verse
as follows. Although Sukadeva Gosvami was the greatest muni, he could
describe Krsna only partially (armsena), for no one can describe Krsna
fully. It is said that Anantadeva has thousands of heads, but although He
tries to describe Krsna with thousands of tongues, His descriptions are
still incomplete.

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Haars ale Haren arhet At ae EAT 113 1
avatirya yador varise
bhagavan bhita-bhavanah
