Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrī Caitanya Caritāmrita Madhya 20.315

svarūpa — aiśvarya-pūrna, krishna-sama prāya

krishna amśī, teńho amśa, vede hena gāya

SYNONYMS

svarūpa — personal expansion; aiśvarya-pūrna — full of all opulences; krishna-sama — equal to Krishna; prāya — almost; krishna amśī — Krishna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead; teńho — Lord Vishnu; amśa — personal expansion; vede — the Vedas; hena — thus; gāya — sing.

TRANSLATION

"Lord Vishnu is in the category of svāmśa because He has opulences almost equal to Krishna's. Krishna is the original person, and Lord Vishnu is His personal expansion. This is the verdict of all Vedic literatures.

PURPORT

Although an incarnation of the material energy, Lord Brahmā is nonetheless the director of the material mode of passion. Similarly, Lord Śiva, although simultaneously one with and different from Lord Krishna, is still the incarnation of the mode of darkness. However, Lord Vishnu is Krishna's personal expansion; therefore He is the director of the mode of goodness and is always transcendentally situated, beyond the jurisdiction of the modes of material nature. Lord Vishnu is the original personal expansion of Krishna, and Krishna is the original source of all incarnations. As far as power is concerned, Lord Vishnu is as powerful as Lord Krishna because He possesses all the opulences.

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