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The infinite expansions of the Supreme

Personality of Godhead
We have already said that Lord Krishna is the
Supreme Personality of Godhead. The term Godhead
is very significant when we broach the question of
who is God. It means the original Personality of God
and everything that emanates from Him directly and
indirectly. As the source of everything, God cannot
be understood without also accounting for all of
His emanations which manifest myriad aspects of
His infinite beauty, knowledge, wealth, strength,
fame and renunciation. Because God is a Person,
everything that comes from Him has an individual
identity. Taking the totality of God’s eternal existence
as a whole is considered the Godhead concept.

Lord Krishna, whose original form has two arms
holding a flute, eternally resides on the highest planet
of the spiritual world call Goloka Vrindaban. Below
Goloka is another part of the spiritual world called
Vaikuntha where the Supreme Lord expands Himself
into the Narayana Forms which have four arms. These
Narayana forms are individually present on every
one of the infinite planets in Vaikuntha. In order
to manifest, maintain and wind down the material

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