Sri Krishna is the Supreme Godhead.

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Hare Krishna,

Lord Krishna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead .

Govindam adhi purshamtam haam bhajami.

The Devatas are in charge of specific aspects, like Indra in charge of rain, Agnie Dev in charge of fire, Surya dev in charge of Sun etc.

isvarah paramah Krishnahsac-cid-ananda-vigrahahanadir adir govindahsarva-karana-karanam

isvarah--the controller; paramah--supreme; Krishnah--Lord Krishna; i--comprising eternal existence; cit--absolute knowledge; ananda--and absolute bliss; vigrahah--whose form, anadih--without beginning; adih--the origin; govindah--Lord Govinda; sarva-karana-karanam--the cause of all causes.

TRANSLATIONKrishna who is known as Govinda is the Supreme Godhead. He has an eternal blissful spiritual body. He is the origin of all. He has

no other origin and He is the prime cause of all causes.PURPORTKrishna is the exalted Supreme entity having His eternal name, eternal form, eternal attribution and eternal pastimes.

The very name "Krishna" implies His love-attracting designation, expressing by His eternal nomenclature the acme of entity. His eternal beautiful heavenly blue-tinged body glowing with the intensity of ever-existing knowledge has a nude in both His hands.As His

inconceivable spiritual energy is all-extending, still He maintains His all-charming medium size by His qualifying spiritual instrumentals. His all-accommodating supreme subjectivity is nicely manifested in His eternal form. The concentrated all time presence, uncovered knowledge and inebriating felicity have their beauty in Him. The mundane manifestive portion of His own Self is known as all-pervading Paramatma, Isvara (Superior Lord) or Vishnu (All-fostering). Hence it is evident that Krishna is sole Supreme Godhead. His unrivaled or unique spiritual body of super excellent charm is eternally unveiled with innumerable spiritual instrumentals (senses) and

unreckonable attributes keeping their signifying location properly, adjusting at the same time by His inconceivable conciliative powers. This beautiful spiritual figure is identical with Krishna and the spiritual entity of Krishna is identical with His own figure.The very intensely blended entity of eternal presence of felicitouscognition is the charming targeted holding or transcendental icon. It follows that the conception of the indistinguishable formless magnitude (Brahman) which is an indolent, lax, presentment of cognitive bliss is merely a penumbra of intensely blended glow of the three concomitants,

viz., the blissful, the substantive and the cognitive. This transcendental manifestive icon Krishna in His original face is primordial background of magnitudinal infinite Brahman and of the all-pervasive oversoul. Krishna as truly visioned in His variegated pastimes, such as owner of transcendental cows, chief of cowherds, consort of milk-maids, ruler of the terrestrial abode Gokula and object of worship by transcendental residents of Goloka beauties, is Govinda. He is the root cause of all causes who are the predominating and predominated agents of the universe. The glance of His projected fractional portion in the sacred originating water viz., the personal oversoul or Paramatma, gives rise to a secondary potency--nature who creates this mundane universe. This oversoul's intermediate energy brings forth the individual souls analogously to the emanated rays of the sun.

Jagadguru Adi Shankaracharya praises Sri Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead in his famous hymn - ‘ Sri Krishnashtakam ’ .

1. May He, who is ever held in embrace by Sri Lakshmi, the Goddess of abundance, who is all-pervading, in whose physical form is the entire created world ; the animate and the inanimate, who is the theme of the Vedas, who is the unattached and impartial witness of the actions of the human intellect, who is ever pure, who is the remover of the ills of the devotees, destroyer of the dark forces, who is lotus-eyed, and the holder of the club, the conch, and the sudarshana chakra, who wears a garland of wild flowers of unstained glory, who is everlasting

sweetness, who is that worthy refuge of all and the Lord of the Universe – Sri Krishna be visible to me.

2. May He, from whom has emerged all this universe composed of ether, air, water, fire and earth, who is the destroyer of Madhu, who by his own Guna of Satva protects the infinite creation, who at the time of deluge withdraws everything into himself, who is the all-pervading substance and the refuge of all and the Lord of the Universe, that Krishna be visible to me .

3. May He, whom the pure-minded sages, by practicing first the Yogic injunction of restraint and Pranayama thus subduing all the mental faculties, perceive in their heart as Vishnu – the adored of the three worlds, who has assumed the Maya body, who is the shelter of the entire Universe, that Sri Krishna grant me his vision .

4. May He, whom the Vedas declare , ‘ One without second, stainless, He stays in the world and controls the world, but Him the world knows not”, who is the supreme director of the play of the universe, who is the sole object of contemplation of Gods, sages and mankind, who is the bestower of liberation to all living beings, refuge of the entire universe and the Lord of the world, that Sri Krishna be visible to me .

5. May He, by whose power Indra and other Gods became powerful and conquered the demons, without whose doing no one can act and has any freedom to do anything at all, who takes away the pride of poetic talent of the world, conquering all the learned, refuge of the Universe, that Sri Krishna be visible to me .

6. May He, without meditation on whom a man is born in a lower body like a pig, without knowledge of whom man is oppressed with the dread of birth and death, without the remembrance of whom man gets the body of hundreds of worms, who is the refuge of the universe, that Krishna grant me his vision .

7. May He, who is the destroyer of fear and remover of delusion, who is the help of the helpless, who has the complexion of a new rain-cloud, who is the playmate of the children in Gokula and a friend of Arjuna, who is self-existent, the parent of all beings and giver of happiness to beings according to their karma, that Sri Krishna be visible to me.

8. May He, the birth less Lord of the universe, who appears in the form of Vishnu for the deliverance of the pious, like a bridge of righteousness, whenever there is a frightening decline of Dharma, who is devoid of all changes, whose glory the Vedas sing, who is the Lord of the Vrajabhoomi, that Sri Krishna grant me his vision.

Om Namo Bhagavathe Vasudevaya !

 

Bhaktasevak

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Note - The above is excerpt of a discourse.

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