Lord Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead and cause of ALL causes.
Krsna always has four more qualities than His Narayana (Visnu-tattva) forms of Godhead have.
His Visnu-tattva expansions can partially exhibit them but generally have on 60 of Krsna's 64 qualities.
Those four unique qualities Krsna ALWAYS has in full are-
(1) He is the performer of wonderful varieties of pastimes (especially His childhood pastimes),
(2) He is surrounded by devotees endowed with wonderful love of Godhead,
(3) He can attract all living entities all over the universes by playing on His flute,
(4) He has a wonderful excellence of beauty which cannot be rivaled anywhere in the creation.
Srila Rupa Gosvami, after consulting various scriptures, gives us the 64 qualities of the Krsna as follows-
(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) a 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,
(3l) 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;
(4l) all-auspicious;
(42) most powerful,
(43) all-famous,
(44) popular,
(45) partial to devotees,
(46) very attractive to all women;
(47) all-worshipable;
(48) all-opulent;
(49) all-honorable;
(50) the supreme controller.
The Supreme Personality of Godhead Krana has all these fifty transcendental qualities in their fullness, the extent of His qualities are inconceivable.
As parts and parcels of the Supreme Lord, the individual living entities (,jiva-souls) can also possess all of these qualities in minute quantities, provided they become pure devotees of the Lord.
In other words, all of the above transcendental qualities can be present in the jiva-tattva souls in minute quantity, whereas the qualities in fullness are always present in the Supreme Personality of Godhead Krsna.
Besides the above 50 attributes, there are other transcendental qualities which are described by Lord Siva to Parvati in the Padma Purana.
And in the First Canto of Srimad-Bhagavatam in connection with a conversation between the deity of the earth and the King of religion, Yamaraja.
It is said therein -
“Persons who are desirous of becoming great personalities must be decorated with the following 39 qualities -
1 - truthfulness,
2 - cleanliness,
3 - mercy,
4 - perseverance,
5 - renunciation,
6 - peacefulness,
7 - simplicity,
8 - control of the senses,
9 - equilibrium of the mind,
10 - austerity,
11 - equality,
12 - forbearance,
13 - placidity,
14 - learning,
15 - knowledge,
16 - detachment,
17 - opulence,
18 - chivalry,
19 - influence,
20 - strength,
21 - memory,
22 - independence,
23 - tactfulness,
24 - luster,
25 - patience,
26 - kindheartedness,
27 - ingenuity,
28 - gentility,
29 - mannerliness,
30 - determination,
31 - perfection in all,
32 - knowledge,
33 - proper execution,
34 - possession of all objects of enjoyment,
35 - gravity,
36 - steadiness,
37 - faithfulness,
38 - fame,
39 - respectfulness and lack of false egotism.
Persons who are desiring to become great souls cannot be without any of the above qualities, so we can know for certain that these qualities are found in Lord Krsna, the supreme soul.
Besides all of the above list of fifty qualities mentioned, Lord Krsna possesses five more, which are sometimes partially manifested in the persons of Lord Brahma or Lord Siva.
These transcendental qualities are as follows -
(51) changeless;
(52) all-cognizant;
(53) ever-fresh;
(54) sac-cid-ananda-vigraha (possessing an eternal blissful body);
(55) possessing all mystic perfections.
Krsna also possesses five other qualities, which are manifest in the body of Narayana (Vishnu), and they are listed as follows -
(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.
All these transcendental qualities are manifest wonderfully in the personal feature of Lord Krsna.
Besides these sixty transcendental qualities, Krsna has four more, which are not manifest even in the Narayana (Visnu) 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.
Adding to the list these four exceptional qualities of Krsna, it is to be understood that the aggregate number of qualities of Krsna is sixty-four.
Srila Rupa Gosvami has attempted to give evidences from various scriptures about all sixty-four qualities present in the person of the Supreme Lord.”(From "Nectar of Devotion", Chapter 21)
Lord Krsna and Lord Caitanya both come ONLY "once" to this universe every 8 billion 640 million human years.
Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu is the Golden Avatara for this age of Kali-yuga.
However, Lord Caitanya does NOT appear in every Kali-yuga, He only appears in ONE Kali-yuga out of every thousand, or once in a day of Brahma.
Just like Lord Krsna in His original form, also only appears in ONE Dvāpara-yuga out of every thousand.
Lord Krsna appears in the Dvāpara-yuga just before the Kali-yuga Lord Caitanya appears in.
This means both Lord Krsna and Lord Caitanya come ONLY "once" every 8 billion 640 million human years, which is a "day/night" 24 hour period of Lord Brahma time.
Srila Prabhupada – "Lord Kṛṣṇa and Lord Caitanya appear "once" in each day of Brahmā." (CC, Adi 3.10 Text 10 Purport)
Srila Prabhupada –"At the end of the Dvāpara-yuga of the twenty-eighth Maha-yuga (during the 7th Manu known as Vaivasvata Manu), Lord Kṛṣṇa appears on earth with the full paraphernalia of His eternal Vraja-dhāma." (CC, Adi 3.10 Text 10)
Therefore during the 28th Maha-yuga of the Vaivasvata Manu (the 7th Manu of 14), Lord Kṛṣṇa first appears at the close of the Dvāpara-yuga and then Lord Caitanya appears in the Kali-yuga of the same Maha yuga.
Lord Kṛṣṇa and Lord Caitanya appear ONLY "once" in a day of Brahmā during the 7th Manu out of the fourteen, called Vaivasvata Manu.
First Lord Kṛṣṇa appears at the close of the Dvāpara-yuga of the twenty-eighth Maha-yuga in the Vaivasvata Manu (the 7th Manu), and then Lord Caitanya appears in the Kali-yuga of the same Maha yuga in Vaivasvata Manu.
Devotee - "Śrīla Prabhupāda, does Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu also appear every day of Brahma?"
Srila Prabhupāda - "Yes, following Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa comes in the Dvāpara-yuga. There are four periods of each yuga: Satva, Tretā, Dvāpara, Kali. So Kṛṣṇa comes at the end of Dvāpara-yuga, and Caitanya Mahāprabhu comes in the Kali-yuga." (Lecture on SB Canto 6 Ch 1 Text 3 - Melb, Australia May 22, 1975)
Our Kali-yuga is very rare because of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu's appearance.
Also Lord Krsna, as His original form, appears only in the Dvāpara-yuga just before the Kali-yuga Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu appears in.
Therefore Lord Krsna also does not appear as His original Vrindavana form in every Dvāpara-yuga, He only comes to ONE Dvāpara-yuga out of every thousand as said above.
Both Lord Krsna and Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu only come "ONCE" in every "day/night" of Lord Brahma (between sun-rise and sun-set) when all the 1000 Maha-yugas are active.
There are no Maha-yugas during Brahma's night (from sun-set to sun-rise).
In our current kalpa (day-time hours of Brahma from Sun-rise to Sun-set) there are fourteen Manus, we are in the 7th Manu known as Vaivasvata Manu.
During Brahma's night-time period from Sun-set to Sun-rise, there are "no Maha-yugas".
Therefore during this inactive night-time period of Brahma (also called a Kalpa) he sleeps while a parcel annihilation goes on until the next Sun-rise begins, starting with the first Maha-yuga out of one thousand that all happen only during Brahma's day-time.
Lord Brahma's 100 year life span in human years is 311 trillion and 40 billion years.^*^
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