Prabhupāda: . . . His Holiness Śrīpāda Puri Mahārāja. we are very much thankful to the authorities of this temple for giving us shelter and associating with this holy function.
(aside) You will translate? (Yaśomatīnandana translates throughout)
(break) Today's function is installing a different important incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. (break) In the Brahma-saṁhitā, about the incarnation of the Supreme Lord, Govinda is mentioned primarily, beginning with Rāma. (break)
- rāmādi-mūrtiṣu kalā-niyamena tiṣṭhan
- nānāvatāram akarod bhuvaneṣu kintu
- kṛṣṇaḥ svayaṁ samabhavad paramaḥ pumān yo
- govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
- (Bs. 5.39)
(break) Kṛṣṇa is the original Personality of Godhead, as it is said in the Bhagavad-gītā and other Vedic literature. Kṛṣṇa says Himself, mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat kiñcid asti dhanañjaya (BG 7.7): "There is no more superior authority than Me." (break)
There is no difference between Lord Rāma, Lord Kṛṣṇa, Lord Nrsiṁha, Varāha. They are all the Supreme Personality of Godhead. (break) That is the explanation that a candle, the original candle, and you can lit up another candle, you can lit up another candle. Although the original candle you can say number one candle, but all the candles are equally powerful. There is no question. Because the second candle is enlightened from the first candle, it does not mean that the second candle is less powerful than the original candle.
(break) The one Supreme Lord, He expands Himself. Just like we can get one example: you can have your photograph and you can, by photograph, you can expand yourself. Or you stand before hundreds and millions of mirrors, your body will be reflected, your bodily feature will be reflected. But the thing is, in this material world, that reflection of the body is not as good as the original body, because it is dual world. But in the absolute world, such reflection, such expansion, they are as good as the original (break).
Similarly, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, as we have sung just now, rādhā-mādhava kuñja-bihārī, He lives in His place, Goloka.
- ānanda-cinmaya-rasa-pratibhāvitābhis-
- tābhir ya eva nija-rūpatayā kalābhiḥ
- goloka eva nivasaty akhilātma-bhūto
- govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
- (Bs. 5.37)
Although He is always situated in Goloka Vṛndāvana for satisfaction of the inhabitants of Vṛndāvana . . . gopī-jana-vallabha giri-vara-dhārī. Kṛṣṇa, the original Personality of Godhead, is very busy to satisfy the gopī-jana, the gopīs and the cowherd boys. He does not go out of Vṛndāvana. But still, because He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, He can expand Himself in such a way. Aṇḍāntara-sthaṁ paramāṇu-cayāntara-stham govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi (break).
Kṛṣṇa expands Himself, eko bahu syāma. According to Vedic description, the first is viṣṇu-tattva. Viṣṇu-tattva and jīva-tattva. The viṣṇu-tattva is called svāṁśa. There is no difference between one viṣṇu-tattva to another. Just like viṣṇu, Rāmacandra, He is viṣṇu-tattva. Nārāyaṇa, viṣṇu-tattva. Balarāma, viṣṇu-tattva. So there is no difference in power. They are called svāṁśa, svāṁśa-vistāra. And there are other vistāra. That is called vibhinnāṁśa vistāra, separated part and parcel.
We are, we the jīvas, we are also expansion of Kṛṣṇa, or Viṣṇu. But we are a small, separated part and parcel, whereas viṣṇu-tattva expansion, They are full in power. (break) The viṣṇu-tattvas are known as puruṣa-tattva, whereas the jīva-tattva is known as śakti-tattva. (break) Jīva-tattva, as the Māyāvādī philosophers, they think that jīva-tattva can be God or jīva can become God, that is a false theory. It has no value according to Vedic scripture.