64 Teachings of Lord Chaitanya

that He remains always in Vrindaban with all the inhabitants of Vrindaban.
That Personal Form is again divided into two, known categorically as the
Prabhava and Baibhava Forms. For example, Krishna expanded Himself in
multiple Forms in the Rasa Dance. When He danced with the Gopis, He
expanded Himself in multiple Forms to dance with each and every Gopi who
took part in that dance. Similarly, He expanded Himself into 16,108 Forms
at Dwarka when He married 16,108 wives.

There are some instances of great mystics also expanding their bodily
features in a different way, but that sort of expansion by the Yoga process
is not applicable to Krishna. In the Vedic history, for example, Saubhary
Rishi, a sage, expanded himself into eight forms by the Yoga process, but that
expansion was simply a manifestation, for Saubhary remained one. But as
far as Krishna is concerned, when He manifested Himself in different Forms,
each and every one of them was a separate individual. When Narada Muni
visited Krishna at different palaces at Dwarka, he was astonished at this, and
yet Narada is never astonished to see the expansion of the body of a Yogi
since he knows the trick himself. Yet, in a verse in the Srimad Bhagwatam,
it states that Narada was astonished to see the expansions of Krishna. He
wonders how the Lord was present in each and every house of the 16,108
palaces with His queens.

Krishna Himself was in a different Form with each queen, and He was
acting in different ways. For example, in one Form He was talking with His
wife, in another Form He was engaged with His children, and in yet another
Form He was performing some household work. These different activities
are called actions in the Lord’s different emotions, and when He is in these
“emotional” Forms, the expansions are known as Vaibhavaprakash. Similarly,
there are other unlimited expansions of the Forms of Krishna, but even when
they are divided or expanded without limit, they are still one and the same.
There is no difference between one Form and another; that is the Absolute
nature of the Personality of Godhead.

In the Srimad Bhagwatam it is stated, in the Tenth Canto, Fortieth Chapter,
that at the time when Akrura was carrying both Krishna and Valaram from
Gokula to Mathura, he entered into the water of the Yamuna River and could
see in the waters all the spiritual planets in the Spiritual Sky. He saw there the
Lord in His Vishnu Form, along with Narada and the four Kumaras, and he
saw how they were worshipping. This is described in the Srimad Bhagwatam
as “Form.” It is stated in the Bhagavat Purana that there are many worshippers
who are purified by different processes of worship, such as the Vaishnava,
