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The Supreme Lord Krishna whose expansions and incarnations have their abode in
the transcendental celestial fi rmament known as Vaikuntha, which is indestructible and
limitless and which conforms with His nature, which is expansive, unfathomable, endless
and opulent. That Vaikuntha of infi nite wonder, of infi nite glory, of infi nite majesty and of
infi nite omnipotence is eternal and imperishable.

The Supreme Lord Krishna by whose will and pleasure trillions of universes are
dramatically displayed by projection in the material substratum in the modes of sustentation
and dissolution; the universes so replete with 8,400,000 different species of life and full of so
many wonderfully variegated and amazingly phenomenal creations and hosts of enjoyers
thereof.

He is also to be known by the names of His manifestations such as Brahman and
Para Brahman, by any of His incarnations such as Rama and Buddha and by any of His
expansions such as Narayana and Vasudeva.

The Supreme Lord Krishna, who is the Ultimate Truth, the Ultimate Consciousness
and the Ultimate Personality, having emanated the complete cosmic manifestation from
Brahma down to a blade of grass,by His own desire He withdrew within His own Self and
was instantaneously completely beyond the material existence and the meditations and
adorations of Brahma, the devas and mortal beings.

The Supreme Lord Krishna being an all pervading ocean of infi nite mercy with
unlimited compassion, unlimited love and unlimited magnanimity, although completely
transcendental to the material existence; simultaneously willed to incarnate in various
material forms similar to those of His creation, without compromising His own divine
transcendental nature and periodically descends as different incarnations in the material
worlds as he so desires.
Ramanujacarya unequivocally states the Supreme Lord Krishna is the
Ultimate Truth, Ultimate Consciousness, and Ultimate Personality and the
source of all expansions such as Rama, Buddha, Narayana, and Vasudeva.
Sukadeva Goswami also confi rms this in the Srimad Bhagavatam: ete camsa-
kalah pumsah / krsnas tu bhagavan svayam / indrari-vyakulam lokam / mrdayanti yuge
yuge All the lists of the incarnations of Godhead submitted herewith are either plenary
expansions or parts of the plenary expansions of the Supreme Godhead, but Krishna is
the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself. (SB 1.3.28) Therefore, Krishna is the
original Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Absolute Truth, the source of
both the Supersoul and the impersonal Brahman.
Srila Prabhupada talks about the followers of Sri Ramanujacarya

The following conversation took place in Bombay on April 10, 1977. Srila
Prabhupada confi rms that the Sri Vaisnava followers of Ranmanujacarya are
bona fi de if they are actually following. The same can be said for the followers of
Caitanya Mahaprabhu and Srila Prabhupada.

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