64 qualities of Krsna the Supreme Personality of Godhead and cause of ALL causes.

Krsna has all 64 qualities all the time unlike His Visnu-tattva expansions. 

Krsna's Visnu-tattva (Visnu/Narayana) expansions of Krsna, who are also God, have only 60 of Krsna's 64 attributes or 93.75% of Krsna's qualities.

Some Vedic scholars and modern day Hindu academics cannot understand why Krsna has 4 more qualities than Visnu or Narayana, and why Krsna IS the ORIGINAL Supreme Personality of Godhead and cause of ALL causes and as His original Form never leaves Vṛndāvana.

They cannot understand that Visnu/Narayana are expansions of Krsna and NOT the other way around as many Hindus today wrongly believe.

Even the word Hindu is not found in Vedic texts and is an alien word introduced by European and barbaric Islamic invaders to the Indian subcontinent around 15 hundred years ago. 

As said above, Krsna is NOT an expansion of Visnu either as many Hindus wrongly believe today.

Krsna is the original Supreme Personality of Godhead and cause of ALL causes from who ALL Visnu forms originate from.

When Kṛṣṇa wants to come to the material worlds He personally does not come because He never leaves the Spiritual world

Instead, it is His 4 armed Visnu-tattva expansion who appears in the material creation in the form of the two armed Kṛṣṇa.  

The 4 qualities or attributes Visnu or Narayana do NOT have always but only partially display are as follows-

(1) Krsna is the performer of wonderful varieties of pastimes (especially His childhood pastimes).

(2) Krsna is surrounded by devotees endowed with wonderful love of Godhead.

(3) Krsna can attract all living entities all over the universes by playing on His flute.

(4) Krsna has a wonderful excellence of beauty which cannot be rivaled anywhere in the creation.

These four qualities out of Krsna's 64 attributes is important to understand because as said, not even Visnu/Narayana forms of God have them "in full", only sometimes exhibited partially.

All expansions of Krsna are-

1 - Visnu-tattva have 60 qualities out of Krsna's 64 attributes which is 93.75 of Krishna's total qualities.

2 - Visnu-"sakti"- tattvas (this category of sakti potency or energy means Srimati Radharani is also Visnu-tattva who has 60 qualities of Krsna's 64 qualities or 93.75 of Krsna's qualities, but can often exhibit all 64 qualities as seen in pastimes.

This is why it is said their is no difference between Radharani and Kṛṣṇa 

3 - Siva-tattva has 55 qualities out of Krsna's 64 attributes or 84.375% of Krsna's qualities and is in a league of His own. 

4 - Jiva-tattva souls have 50 qualities of Krsna's 64 attributes which is 78.125% of Krsna's qualities, and are endowed with free will which means they have an individual personality separate from Krsna's Personality.

The Supreme Personality of Godhead Lord Krsna has all sixty four transcendental qualities in full.

So the difference between Krsna (64 qualities) and Visnu/Narayana (60 qualities) are the four extra qualities that only Krsna has all the time.

The full extent of Krsna's wonderful qualities or attributes are inconceivable.

Here are Krsna's 64 qualities or attributes -

(1) Beautiful features of the entire body

(2) Marked with all auspicious characteristics

(3) Extremely pleasing

(4) Effulgent

(5) Strong

(6) Ever youthful

(7) Wonderful linguist

(8) Truthful

(9) Talks pleasingly

(10) Fluent

(11) Highly learned

(12) Highly intelligent

(13) Genius

(14) Artistic

(15) Extremely clever

(16) Expert

(17) Grateful

(18) Firmly determined

(19) An expert judge of time and circumstances

(20) Sees and speaks on the authority of Vedas, or scriptures

(21) Pure

(22) Self-controlled

(23) Steadfast

(24) Forbearing

(25) Forgiving

(26) Grave

(27) Self-satisfied

(28) Possessing equilibrium

(29) Magnanimous

(30) Religious

(31) Heroic

(32) Compassionate

(33) Respectful

(34) Gentle

(35) Liberal

(36) Shy

(37) The protector of surrendered souls

(38) Happy

(39) The well-wisher of devotees

(40) Controlled by love

(41) all-auspicious

(42) Most powerful

(43) all-famous

(44) Popular

(45) Partial to devotees

(46) Very attractive to all women

(47) all-worship able

(48) all-opulent

(49) all-honourable

(50) The supreme controller.

(51) Changeless

(52) all-cognizant

(53) Ever fresh

(54) sac-cid-ananda-vigraha- eternity, knowledge, bliss and
always as an eternally youthful bodily Form.

(55) Possessing all mystic perfections.

(56) He has inconceivable potency.

(57) Uncountable universes generate from His body.

(58) He is the original source of all incarnations.

(59) He is the giver of salvation to the enemies whom He kills.

(60) He is the attractor of liberated souls.

Besides these sixty transcendental qualities, Krsna has four more, which are not manifested even in the Visnu/Narayana form of Godhead, what to speak of the demigods or living entities.

They are as follows:

(61) He is the performer of wonderful varieties of pastimes (especially His childhood pastimes).

(62) He is surrounded by devotees endowed with wonderful love of Godhead.

(63) He can attract all living entities all over the universes by playing on His flute.

(64) He has a wonderful excellence of beauty which cannot be rivaled anywhere in the creation.

This is the reason why Krsna is called Param Purushottam, Purnavatar or Supreme Personality of Godhead and cause of all causes. 

Srila Prabhupada - "Learned scholars in transcendental subjects have carefully analyzed the summum bonum Krsna to have sixty-four principal attributes.

All the expansions or categories of the Lord possess only some percentages of these attributes. But Sri Krsna is the possessor of the attributes cent percent.

And His personal expansions such as svayam-prakasa, tad-ekatma up to the categories of the avataras who are all visnu-tattva, possess up to 93.75% of these transcendental attributes." (SB Canto 1 Ch 3 text 29)

Lord Siva is neither avatara nor avesa, nor in between them, he possesses 84.375% of Krsna's attributes.

But the jiva-souls or the individual marginal living entities possess up to the limit of 78.125% of Krsna's qualities which is having 50 of His 64 attributes.

In the conditioned state within material existence, the marginal living entities or jiva-souls trapped there, exhibit these attributes in very minute quantities, and varying in terms of the pious and impious life of the living being.

Only in the spiritual worlds are the jiva-soul's full potential of 78.125% fully experienced.

The most perfect of living beings in this material universe is Brahma, the supreme administrator of each material universe deep inside their surrounding Brahmanda greater universe.

Lord Brahma, who is jiva-tattva, possesses 78.125% percent of Krsna's 100% attributes.

All the demigods except Siva have only 78.125% attributes or have 50 of Krsna's 64 qualities also. 

And all species of material life also possess these same attributes in their full potential because they are also jiva-tattva but are covered by material enegy.

The standard of perfection for a human being is to develop their full potential of up to 78.125% in full. 

The marginal living entities or jiva-tattvas can NEVER possess attributes like Siva, Visnu, Radharani or Lord Krsna.

A living being or marginal living entity (jiva-souls) can become godly by developing their full potential of 78.125% of their attributes but can NEVER become a God like Krsna or Visnu.

Although, as said, he can become a Brahma in due course.

The godly living beings who are all residents of the Vaikuntha planets in the spiritual sky, are eternal associates of Visnu in different spiritual planets called Hari-dhama and Mahesa-dhama.

However, the abode of Lord Krsna Goloka Vrindavana is above all the Vaikuntha planets and is called Krsnaloka or Goloka Vrndavana.

The marginal living entity (jiva-soul) can develope 78.125% of the above attributes in full, which is their full potential, they can NEVER become Krsna or Visnu.

By reaching there full potential of 78.125%, the jiva tattva souls can AGAIN enter the planet of Krsna-loka (Goloka-Vrindavana) after leaving their present decaying material bodily vessel.***.