Kṛṣṇa's Innumerable Expansions and Incarnations

0:00[Distorted] BS 5.39रामादि मूर्तिषु कला नियमेन तिष्ठन्नाना अवतार अकरोत् भुवनेषु किन्तु |कृष्णः स्वयं समभवत् परमः पुमान् योगोविन्दम् आदि पुरुषं तमहं भजामि ॥ ३९ ॥rāmādi-mūrtiṣu kalā-niyamena tiṣṭhannānāvatāram akarod bhuvaneṣu kintukṛṣṇaḥ svayaṁ samabhavat paramaḥ pumān yogovindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmiI worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, who manifested Himself personally as Kṛṣṇa and the different avatāras in the world in the forms of Rāma, Nṛsiṁha, Vāmana, etc., as His subjective portions.

Innumerable expansions of Krishna

0:30Prabhupāda: Rāmādi-mūrtiṣu. Kṛṣṇa has got innumerable expansion.

Vishnu tattva and jiva tattva

0:35Some of Them are called viṣṇu-tattva, and some of them are called jīva-tattva. He has got innumerable expansions. The viṣṇu-tattva expansion, They are as good as Kṛṣṇa.

Humanity as expansions of Manu

1:03But jīva-tattva we are jīva-tattva, we are also expansions of Kṛṣṇa, just like the whole human race is expansion of some forefather, Manu. From manu, man. This is also Sanskrit. Manu, man.

1:29In Sanskrit, manuṣya, man. So similarly, the original father, original progenitor, is Kṛṣṇa; and from His expansion there are innumerable.

Personal and separated expansions

1:52Some of them are called svāṁśa. Svāṁśa means personal expansion. And some of them are vibhināṁśa, separated expansions. We are separated expansions, but we are also Kṛṣṇa's expansions.

Eternal existence of incarnations

2:16So Kṛṣṇa appears, rāmādi-mūrtiṣu, as Lord Rāmacandra, as Varāha, as Kūrma, as Nṛsiṁhadeva, as Matsya—so many. Rāmādi-mūrtiṣu kalā-niyamena tiṣṭhan. So He is always existing with so many expansions.

2:45None of the expansions are at any time vanquished, they are existing always. We are also existing. After this body also we shall continue to exist.

Krishna as the supreme person

3:07Kṛṣṇa svayaṁ samabhavat paramaḥ pumān yo. But Kṛṣṇa, when He appears, He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi. So kṛṣṇas tu bhagavān svayam SB 1.3.28.

List of incarnations in Bhagavatam

3:35In the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, there is list of incarnations. You should read all this, in the Third Chapter, First Volume.

3:48And when Kṛṣṇa's name is there, it is said, kṛṣṇas tu bhagavan svayam. Ete camsa kala pumsam kṛṣṇas tu bhagavam svayam. All this list of names, they are expansions of Kṛṣṇa.

Krishna as the original Lord

4:06But this name, "Kṛṣṇa," He is the original Supreme Personality of Godhead. That is the meaning of govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi: "I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord." Hmm. [end]