Just like Govardhana. You have seen that picture. At seven years old, He lifted the hill. And when He was young He married sixteen thousand wives, and sixteen thousand features . . . so . . . and when He was in Battle of Kurukṣetra, He showed the universal form. So before claiming oneself as "I am God," they should be prepared to show these uncommon features. Otherwise, no sane man will accept any fool as God.
- ananta prakāśe kṛṣṇera nāhi mūrti-bheda
- ākāra-varṇa-astra-bhede nāma-vibheda
- (CC Madhya 20.172)
Then He says: "There are unlimited expansions of Kṛṣṇa in the spiritual world, and . . ." Nāhi mūrti-bheda. Just like His expansions in the spiritual world . . . He is originally two-handed, but in the spiritual planets . . . there are innumerable spiritual planet, and He is situated in each of them in four hand.
Now this four hand, each hand . . . there are four symbols: conchshell and wheel and club and a lotus flower. Now these, these four symbols are differently manifested in. Just like four hands. Beginning from right, this is lotus flower, club, and then conchshell, then wheel. And some of them, here begins wheel, here begins club, here . . . in this way the four has about sixteen divisions, and they are represented in . . . not sixteen, twenty-four. Twenty-four, I mean to say, change of the place of the symbols. And according to the change of symbols, you will find different names.
In the cover of the book Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, you have seen. These symbols are there. And there are different names. Some of Them named Hṛṣīkeśa, some of Them as Pradyumna, Aniruddha, Vāsudeva, Saṅkarṣaṇa, Padmanābha . . . in this way there are different names according to the different change of the symbolic representation.
- anye ca saṁskṛtātmāno
- vidhinābhihitena te
- yajanti tvan-mayās tvāṁ vai
- bahu-mūrtyeka-mūrtikam
- (CC Madhya 20.173)
So there are different kinds of devotees also. Some devotee worships the Nārāyaṇa feature, some devotee worships Kṛṣṇa feature, some devotee worships Rama feature, some devotees Padmanābha feature, Nṛsiṁha-deva . . . so there are innumerable devotees and innumerable forms also of Kṛṣṇa. But not these ordinary demigods. No. When Kṛṣṇa says, ye yathā māṁ prapadyante tāṁs tathaiva bhajāmy aham (BG 4.11):
"Any devotee who wants to worship Me in My different features, I offer him in that feature . . ." Just like Hanumān, he was a devotee of Rāma. So there is one verse by Hanumān that, "I know Rāma and Nṛsiṁha and Nārāyaṇa, Kṛṣṇa, is the same. But still, I want to worship Rāma." Just like we, ourself, we know Lord Rāma and Lord Kṛṣṇa the same, but we want to worship Kṛṣṇa.