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The Supreme Personality of Godhead possesses six opulences in full: beauty, riches, power, knowledge, fame
and renunciation. The living entities have very minute amounts of these opulences. They can never emulate the
Lord’s opulences. No one can be equal or greater than Lord Krishna.

The living entities are qualitatively one with the Lord because they have all emanated from the Lord, therefore
they are the eternal fragmental part and parcel of the Lord. Krishna confirms this in the Bhagavad-gita:

mamaivāṁśo jīva-loke / jīva-bhūtaḥ sanātanaḥ
manaḥ-ṣaṣṭhānīndriyāṇi / prakṛti-sthāni karṣati

The living entities in this conditioned world are My eternal fragmental parts. Due to conditioned life, they are
struggling very hard with the six senses, which include the mind. (Bg. 15.7)

Yet, the living entities are at the same time quantitatively different than the Lord in many ways as we have
discussed above. Thus, due to their limitations they can be covered by the illusory effect of material nature,
whereas the Lord is never influenced by material attractions.

The sincere seeker of the truth by service and surrender to Lord Krishna under the guidance of pure devotees
of the Lord can rise above the influence of the modes of nature and attain full knowledge of his position and the
Supreme Lord’s position. He becomes qualified to enter the fourth dimension of continually expanding
consciousness of Lord Krishna and the eternal spiritual world.

Mutually contradictory qualities of Krishna

Lord Krishna cannot be emulated by anyone when we consider His mutually contradictory qualities and
pastimes, which are a source of bewilderment to the materially conditioned persons including even the most
exhaulted demigods like Brahma and Siva. The following verse spoken by Brahma reveals the overwhelming
mystery of Lord Krishna’s unlimited powers. He says:

advaitam acyutam anādim ananta-rūpam
ādyaṁ purāṇa-puruṣaṁ nava-yauvanaṁ ca
vedeṣu durlabham adurlabham ātma-bhaktau
govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi

I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, who is inaccessible to the Vedas (vedesu durlabham), but obtainable by
pure unalloyed devotion of the soul (not difficult to obtain), who is without a second (advaitam), who is not
subject to decay (acyutam), is without a beginning (anadim), whose form is endless (ananda-rupam), who is the
beginning (adyam), and the eternal puruṣa (purana –purusam- most ancient person); yet He is a person
possessing the beauty of blooming youth (nava –yauvanam). (BS 5.33)
By understanding the profound terms mentioned in this verse we can begin to gauge the infinite scope of Lord
Krishna’s powers. Advaita means the unparalleled, indivisible and infinite truth who is a person possessing
absolute and complete knowledge. No person in existence in the past, present or future has or will ever possess
such complete and unlimited knowledge except Lord Krishna. He is the indivisible truth who possesses absolute
knowledge. Lord Krishna’s body and soul are one (advaita). This fact is a source of bewilderment for the
conditioned souls who possess a temporary material body covering their eternal soul. The duality of the material
body covering the eternal soul of a conditioned soul must be understood before one can begin the path of self-
realization. When a conditioned soul sees the Lord, he thinks that the body of the Lord is material just like his
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