Srila Prabhupada - "The human society, at the present moment, is NOT in the darkness of oblivion. It has made rapid progress in the field of material comforts of life, education and economic development of the entire world.
But it suffers a pin-prick somewhere in the social body at large and therefore there is large scale quarrel even on less important issues.
Therefore there is the want of the clue as to how they can become one in peace, friendship and prosperity by the common cause. Srimad Bhagavatam will fill up this gap by ontological aspect of human education. It is therefore a cultural presentation for re-spiritualisation of the entire human society." (Śrimad Bhagavatan Preface)
Each "jiva-soul" (marginal living entity) is a one of a kind individual with their own unique personality different from all other personalities, including Krsna (God).
No two individual jiva-souls are the same, and no jiva-souls can EVER become God (Krsna or Visnu).
Also genuine loving devotional service to Krsna is ALWAYS based on a "two-way" exchange of personal feelings that manifest as loving acts of reciprocation between Krsna and His pure devotee.
Such devotees voluntarily contribute their own unique expressions of devotional service to the Lord as genuinely surrendering to Krsna's will that does not deny them of their own "free will" and personal offerings.
On the other hand, actions expressed in a "one-way" domineering imposing mood from God or Krsna in His eternal Kingdom, WITHOUT allowing personal voluntary contributions and offerings from the individual jiva-souls in a "two-way" exchange of feelings, existing for the purpose of expanding, enriching and multipling loving affection, sentiment and exchanges with Krsna, is NOT love at all, it is selfishness, forced slavery, impersonalism and a spiritually dead existence!
Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead and cause of ALL causes.
Just like with the massive "Sun-disc" and the "sun-rays" (sunshine) there is a difference, the molecules of the "Sun-ray's particles" are not equal to the "Sun disc" that they emanate from.
In this way like the Sun-disc and the sun-rays, the jiva-souls are simultaneously one with Krsna yet at the same time different. Srila Prabhupada explains this in a lecture in Montreal, June 10, 1968.
Krsna is compared to the "Sun-disc" and the different types of living entities (Visnu-tattva and jiva-tattva) are compared to the surrounding "sun-rays".
By this example we also understand that the "Sun-disc" and the "sun-rays" can NEVER be separated or exist without each other.
In other words Krsna the Supreme Personality of Godhead and cause of ALL causes, is ALWAYS surrounded by His parts and parcels (the various types of living entities) and can NEVER be separated from them.
The living entities ARE expansions from the ONE Supreme Personality of Godhead Krsna, who has simultaneously expanded Himself as His individual parts and parcels, who are the various types of living entities such as-
1 - Visnu-tattva who Visnu/Narayana expansions of Krsna on the Vaikuntha Planets, and Maha-Visnu, Garbhodakashayi Visnu and Paramatma who manage the temporary material creation.
2 - Visnu-sakti-tattva living entities (technically Visnu-tattva) who are represented by Radharani and Her associates (internal potency) and are direct expansions of Krsna, none different from Krsna.
So what is Visnu-sakti-tattva?
Srila Prabhupada - "Tattva is manifested in different ways-
1 - Viṣṇu-tattva,
2 - Viṣṇu-śakti-tattva,
3 - jīva-tattva,
like that". (Lecture on SB 6.2.7 -- Vrndavana, September 10, 1975)
Krsna has many different energies called sakti. The jiva-souls are one, Matter is one, the consort expansions of the Lord are one.
Srila Prabhupada - "Sakti or shakti means the "energy of Krsna."(Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 4 Chapter 6 text 43, Purport)
The marginal living entities (jiva-souls) are parts and parcels of Krsna and are also the sakti energy of Krsna, along with other categories of living entities known as Viṣṇu-tattva and Visnu sakti-tattva expansions of Krsna.
However, the jiva-tattva souls are NOT on the same level as Krsna's direct expansions known as Viṣṇu-tattva and Visnu-sakti-tattva.
Visnu-sakti-tattva is represented by Srimati Radharani Krsna's internal potency.
"Sakti" as Visnu-sakti-tattva individuals refers to Krsna's direct expansions within the internal potency.^
3 - Jiva-tattva souls (marginal living entities) who are independent personalities separate from Krsna's Personality, and endowed with "free will" and their own unique individual identity. The jiva-souls are all eternal like Krsna meaning they were NEVER created.
4 - Siva-tattva, who is neither Visnu-tattva or Jiva-tattva, he is in a league of his own and exists in each material universe of Brahma that is situated "deep inside" each Brahmanda universe that comes from the pores of Maha Visnu's skin and His breathing.
In Caitanya Caritamrita Prabhupada explains that Krsna created Radharani to experience the love of a women, which is a paradox because Radha and Krsna have eternally been together, have always existed just like the jiva-souls have too.
Although it may appear some living entities are created because some expansions manifest for a particular lila or pastime however, within the "eternal presence" of Krishna Consciousness their existence is without beginning or end.
Just like from the ONE Sun-disc, the sun-rays manifest and also exist simultaneously with the Sun-disc.
This means Krsna and the living entities can NEVER exist without each other and are therefore eternal and were never created.
This is also how Krsna is fully complete AS Himself, who can NEVER be alone because Krsna is EVERYTHING and EVERYTHING resides in Him
Therefore Krsna is ALWAYS enjoying with His unlimited expansions who are eternally His parts and parcels, just like the Sun-disc is always shining because of the Sun's sun-rays that emanate from the Sun-disc.
Similarly just like the Sun-disc and the sun-rays CANNOT exist without each other, Krsna has no meaning without His devotees (parts and parcels)
However, that situation of Krsna being without His devotees (expansions) can NEVER exist.
This is because there was never a time Krsna or the living entities did not exist as Bhagavad Gita teaches-
"For the soul there is never birth nor death. Nor, having once been, does he ever cease to be. He is unborn, eternal, ever-existing, undying and primeval. He is not slain when the body is slain". (Bhagavad Gita As It Is Chapter 2 Text 20)
Srila Prabhupada – "There is NO new souls. New and old are due to this material body, but the jiva-soul is NEVER born and NEVER dies, so if there is no birth, how can there be new souls?''. (Letter to Jagadisa 7/9/1970)
The reason why Krsna is fully complete within Himself is understood in this way-
Krsna is NEVER alone as just "one", and has never been alone as "one" because EVERYTHING is situated in Him as "one AND simultaneously different" from Him.
This means Krsna is NOT "one-all-pervasive consciousness" flowing through all things where individuality only exists when the life force is embodied.
No this idea is Mayavadi impersonalists philosophy that denies Krsna as the Supreme individual PERSON, and all the marginal living entities (jiva-souls) are also individual unique PERSONS.
This further means there is always a two-way relationship between Krsna and the jiva-souls, with always a two-way exchanges based on voluntary reciprocal service.
The fact is Krsna is simultaneously one individual Personality and at the same time "many independent Personalities also" such as His Visnu-tattva expansions.
Krsna is simultaneously one and different and can NEVER be alone because He is already EVERYTHING and EVERYTHING is always part and parcel of Him.
Actually understanding this is inconceivable to the jiva-souls.
Kṛṣṇa's closest associate is His eternal consort Srimati Rādhārāṇī who is the personification of His internal potency, Radharani eternally intensifies the pleasure of Śrī Kṛṣṇa, so how can He ever be alone?
All the devotees of Krsna must win the attention of Radharani to get Krsna's attention, as all service to Krsna only reaches Him by going through Her.
Srila Prabhupada - "I offer my respects to Rādhārāṇī, whose bodily complexion is like molten gold and who is the Queen of Vṛndāvana. You are the daughter of King Vṛṣabhānu very dear to Lord Kṛṣṇa.
So if we approach Kṛṣṇa through Rādhārāṇī, through the mercy of Rādhārāṇī, then it becomes very easy. If Rādhārāṇī recommends that "This devotee is very nice," then Kṛṣṇa immediately accepts, however fool I may be. Because it is recommended by Rādhārāṇī, Kṛṣṇa accepts.
Therefore in Vṛndāvana you'll find all the devotees, they're chanting more Rādhārāṇī's name than Kṛṣṇa's. Wherever you'll go, you'll find the devotees are addressing, "Jaya Rādhe." You'll find still in Vṛndāvana. They are glorifying Rādhārāṇī. They're more interested, worshiping Rādhārāṇī. Because however fallen I may be, if some way or other I can please Rādhārāṇī, then it is very easy for me to understand Kṛṣṇa.
However, you go by the speculative process to understand Kṛṣṇa, it will take many, many lives. But if you take devotional service, just try to please Rādhārāṇī, and Kṛṣṇa will be gotten very easily. Because Rādhārāṇī can deliver Kṛṣṇa. She is so great devotee, the emblem of mahā-bhāgavata.
Even Kṛṣṇa cannot understand what is Rādhārāṇī's quality. Even Kṛṣṇa, although He says vedāhaṁ samatītāni (BG 7.26), "I know everything," still, He fails to understand Rādhārāṇī. Rādhārāṇī is so great.
Actually, Kṛṣṇa knows everything. In order to understand Rādhārāṇī, Kṛṣṇa accepted the position of Rādhārāṇī. Kṛṣṇa wanted to understand the potency of Rādhārāṇī. Kṛṣṇa thought that "I am full. I am complete in every respect, but still, I want to understand Rādhārāṇī. Why?" This propensity made Kṛṣṇa obliged to accept the propensities of Rādhārāṇī, to understand Kṛṣṇa, Himself.
These are, of course, very transcendental, great science. One who is advanced in Kṛṣṇa consciousness and well conversant with the śāstras, they can understand. But still, we can discuss from the śāstra. When Kṛṣṇa wanted to understand Himself, He took the tendency of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī. And that is Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Rādhā-bhāva-dyuti-suvalitam
Caitanya Mahāprabhu is Kṛṣṇa, but He has accepted the propensities of Rādhārāṇī. As Rādhārāṇī is always in feelings of separation of Kṛṣṇa, similarly, in the position of Rādhārāṇī, Lord Caitanya was feeling separation of Kṛṣṇa. That is the teachings of Lord Caitanya, feelings of separation, not meeting.
The process of devotional service taught by Caitanya Mahāprabhu and His disciplic succession is how to feel separation from Kṛṣṇa. That is Rādhārāṇī's position, ALWAYS feeling the separation". (Radhastami, Srimati Radharani's Appearance Day, London, August 29, 1971)
Srila Prabhupada - "Regarding your question about our relationship with Srimati Radharani, She is the internal energy, we are marginal energy. Marginal means sometimes internal, sometimes external. When we are under the internal energy, that is our normal life, and when we are under the external energy, that is our abnormal life. Therefore, we are called marginal energy; we can be either this way or that way. But being qualitatively one with the purusa, our tendency is to remain in the internal energy. Being in the external energy is our artificial attempt. (Letter to Lilavati, Allston, Mass 25 April, 1969)
Srila Prabhupada - "When Kṛṣṇa kills the demons outside Vṛndāvana, He is not original Kṛṣṇa; He is Vāsudeva. Vāsudevaḥ sarvam iti (BG 7.19). When Kṛṣṇa is acting universally, that is Vāsudeva. Original Kṛṣṇa is ALWAYS in Vṛndāvana.
Jayatīrtha - "If the original Kṛṣṇa is always in Vṛndāvana, then why do the gopīs and Rādhārāṇī feel separation from Him?"
Srila Prabhupada - "That is here, in this material world. In the spiritual world Kṛṣṇa does not leave.
Jayatīrtha - "Oh".
Srila Prabhupāda - "And even in the material world, Kṛṣṇa superficially has gone to Mathurā, but He has captured the heart of the gopīs. So He is not leaving. Gopīs are enjoying Kṛṣṇa by separation. That is Caitanya Mahāprabhu's feeling, how He is appreciating Kṛṣṇa by separation. (Morning Walk, July 17, 1975, San Francisco)
Guest - "Then what category is Radharani in?
Srila Prabhupada - "She is śakti, Cit-śakti. Bhagavān ke pleasure potency. Śakti, śakti-tattva, Śaktimān. Bhagavān is Śaktimān, and that śakti is Rādhārāṇī or Sītā or Lakṣmī. Durgā is also śakti, another feature of Rādhārāṇī".
Guest - "Śakti in original form is Rādhā?"
Srila Prabhupāda - "Yes. Parāsya śaktih..., parāsya śaktir vividhaiva śrūyate (CC Madhya 13.65, purport). Originally cit-śakti. That cit-śakti is expanding. Just like we are..., rāmādi mūrtiṣu kalā-niyamena tiṣṭhan (Bs. 5.39). Kalā means part and parcel. So we are also part and parcel, but we are very small part and parcel. But rāmādi mūrti, they are bigger part and parcel.
Just like if you throw one brick on the floor, so there will be so many small particles, big particles, this particle, that. They are all part and parcel of the brick, but one part very small atomic part, and one big part, this part, this part, then this part, then this part. So all, Kṛṣṇa is the origin, and everyone is part and parcel. Some of them are bigger and some of them are smaller. So Viṣṇu-tattva is almost like Kṛṣṇa".
Guest - "Like Kṛṣṇa".
Srila Prabhupāda - "Others, they are very small. So according to the size, or according to the power..."
Guest - "Power".
Srila Prabhupāda - "The part and parcel exercises his position. Some of them are Viṣṇu-tattva, some of them are Jīva-tattva, some of them are Śakti-tattva and some of them para-tattva. Like that".
Guest - "Para-tattva?"
Srila Prabhupāda - "Para-tattva is Bhagavān. Para-tattva means Kṛṣṇa, Rāma, Nārāyaṇa, Viṣṇu. These are all para-tattva. Bhagavān avatāra, rāmā, nṛsiṁha, varāha, kūrma, vāmana, daśāvatāra, all avatāra.
Or śakti-tattva, material energy, aparā-tattva, matter.
Similarly cit-tattva, spiritual world. The living entities, although they are in the material world, they belong to the spiritual world.
Therefore Kṛṣṇa says, apareyam. This material energy is inferior. It as viddhi me prakṛtiṁ parām. Beyond this material world is another, superior energy that includes jīva-bhūta and jiva-tattva". (Room Conversation, November 11, 1971, New Delhi)
This is the fullness of Lord Krsna's multiple energies.
This is why Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead and cause of ALL causes because He is EVERYTHING and EVERYTHING is in Him.
Krsna is fully satisfied in Himself, that includes enjoying through all of His expansions that are His parts and parcels.
It is not that Krsna is just in our hearts, the fact is all Visnu-tattva expansions and jiva-souls are part and parcel of Krsna and are also within every atom.
Krsna is NEVER alone just like the Sun-disc can never be alone due to the presence of the surrounding sun-rays (sunshine)
Krsna is therefore compared to the Sun-disc and the different types of living entities are compared to the sun-rays.
The Sun-disc and the sun-rays cannot exist without each other, just like Krsna is always surrounded by His parts and parcels (the living entities) and has no meaning without them.
In this way, Krsna IS the Supreme Lord and simultaneously one with all that there is, but different and independent from all of His expansions too.
Krsna's eternal consort Srimati Rādhārāṇī is the manifestation of His pleasure potency and was created by Krsna so He could experience the loving intimate exchanges with a women.
Guest - "Srila Prabhupāda, are we expansions of Rādhā?"
Srila Prabhupada - "No. Rādhā is the internal potency, we are marginal potency. Of course, originally, in that sense, everything is Kṛṣṇa's expansion. Sarvaṁ khalv idaṁ brahma. But even there are expansions... That is the difference between Māyāvāda philosophy and Vaiṣṇava philosophy.
Caitanya Mahāprabhu teaches acintya bhedābheda. We are always simultaneously one and different. Always. We should remember we are expansion of Kṛṣṇa, we are expansion of Rādhā also because Rādhā is also expansion of Kṛṣṇa. But still, different. That is our philosophy -
"One and different simultaneously - Acintya bhedābheda".
This is Caitanya Mahāprabhu's philosophy is "inconceivable simultaneously one and different". This is explained in the Seventh Chapter of Bhagavad-gītā As It Is. The energies and the energetic is the same. Śakti-śaktimator abheda.
Just like Sun-disc and the sunshine (sun-rays), they are the same. There is no difference. But the molecules of the sunshine particles, that is not equal to the sun. These truths we shall always remember. Acintyāḥ khalu ye bhāvāḥ. Therefore these are inconceivable. We are simultaneously one with Kṛṣṇa and Rādhā, and at the same time different". (Lecture on BG 4.5 -- Montreal, June 10, 1968)
Srila Prabhupada - "Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa are "one and the same", but They have assumed two bodies. Thus They enjoy each other, tasting the mellows of love. The two transcendentalists Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa are a puzzle to materialists. The description of Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa from the diary of Śrīla Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī is a condensed explanation, but one needs great spiritual insight to understand the mystery of these two personalities.
One is enjoying in two.
Śrī Kṛṣṇa is the potent factor, and Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī is the internal potency. According to Vedānta philosophy, there is no difference between the potent and the potency; they are identical. We cannot differentiate between one and the other, any more than we can separate fire from heat.
Everything in the Absolute is inconceivable in relative existence. Therefore in relative cognizance it is very difficult to assimilate this truth of the oneness between the potent and the potency. The philosophy of inconceivable oneness and difference propounded by Lord Caitanya is the only source of understanding for such intricacies of transcendence.
In fact, Rādhārāṇī is the internal potency of Śrī Kṛṣṇa, and She eternally intensifies the pleasure of Śrī Kṛṣṇa.
Impersonalists cannot understand this without the help of a mahā-bhāgavata devotee.
The very name “Rādhā” suggests that Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī is eternally the topmost mistress of the comforts of Śrī Kṛṣṇa. As such, She is the medium transmitting the living entities’ service to Śrī Kṛṣṇa.
Devotees in Vṛndāvana therefore seek the mercy of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī in order to be recognized as loving servitors of Śrī Kṛṣṇa". (Caitanya Caritamrita Adi 4.56, Translation and Purport)
All the devotees of Krishna must win the attention of Radharani to get Krsna's attention, as all service to Krsna only reaches Krsna by going through Her.
Srila Prabhupada - "When Krsna wants to be attracted by a woman, He has to create such a woman from His own energy. That woman is Rādhārāṇī". (Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 3 Chapter 31 text 38 Purport)
Krsna divided Himself into "two" so He could experience loving exchanges. For even Krsna, love can NEVER exist when there is just "one", there MUST be His expansions like Srimati Radharani and His Visnu-tattva and jiva-tattva expansions.
To experience loving exchanges and emotions with a women, Krsna divided Himself into two, Srimati Radharani and Krsna.
Krsna wanted to experience loving emotions and affection with a women, this is why He divided Himself into "two - Radha and Krsna", just so He could experience those loving exchanges.
Madhudviṣa Swami - "Śrīla Prabhupāda, you spoke of inferior energy and superior energy. Those are two general categories. Are there other categories of energies besides that, and specifically how could we understand Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī Is She?"
Srila Prabhupāda - "She is spiritual energy".
Madhudviṣa Swami - "But is She jīva-bhūta or?"
Srila Prabhupada - "No, no, no. She is Kṛṣṇa. If everything is Kṛṣṇa and Rādhārāṇī is not Kṛṣṇa, what is that? Kṛṣṇa. He (She) is Kṛṣṇa. She is the Kṛṣṇa's pleasure potency".
Madhudviṣa Swami - "She is not jīva?"
Srila Prabhupada - "No, no, no. She is Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa divided Himself into His energy and Himself. That energy, original spiritual energy, is Rādhārāṇī. That is stated by Jīva Gosvāmī. Rādhā kṛṣṇa-praṇaya-vikṛtir hlādinī śaktir asmāt. When Kṛṣṇa wants pleasure, He cannot accept the inferior energy.
The same superior energy, Kṛṣṇa, is divided into two. That is Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa. And again, when they unite, that is Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Divided, they are Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa, and united, Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
Śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya rādhā-kṛṣṇa nahe anya. Anya means another.
So Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya is combination of Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa. And when they are divided into two, that is Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa. This is the purport. Rādhā kṛṣṇa-praṇaya-vikṛtir hlādinī śaktir asmād ekātmānāv api bhuvi purā deha-bhedaṁ gatau tau, śrī-caitanyākhyaṁ prakaṭam adhunā tad-dvayaṁ caikyam āptam [Cc. Ādi 1.5]. These are the conclusion. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa combination. But He is playing the part of Rādhārāṇī to understand Kṛṣṇa. This is Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Rādhārāṇī is the chief gopī and all Her young girl friends, they are also gopīs. (Lecture on SB 2.1.1-5 -- Melbourne, June 26, 1974)
"Rādhikā is the transformation of Kṛṣṇa’s love. She is His internal energy called hlādinī". (Caitanya Caritamrita Adi 4.59, Translation)
Srila Prabhupada - "mind, senses and body are steeped in love for Kṛṣṇa. She is Kṛṣṇa’s own energy, and She helps Him in His pastimes. Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī is as fully spiritual as Kṛṣṇa. No one should consider Her to be material. She is definitely not like the conditioned souls, who have material bodies, gross and subtle, covered by material senses. She is all-spiritual, and both Her body and Her mind are of the same spiritual embodiment.
Because Her body is spiritual, Her senses are also spiritual. Thus Her body, mind and senses fully shine in love of Kṛṣṇa. She is the personified hlādinī-śakti (the pleasure-giving energy of the Lord’s internal potency), and therefore She is the only source of enjoyment for Śrī Kṛṣṇa.
Śrī Kṛṣṇa cannot enjoy anything that is internally different from Him. Therefore Rādhā and Śrī Kṛṣṇa are identical. The sandhinī portion of Śrī Kṛṣṇa’s internal potency has manifested the all-attractive form of Śrī Kṛṣṇa, and the same internal potency, in the hlādinī feature, has presented Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī, who is the attraction for the all-attractive. No one can match Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī in the transcendental pastimes of Śrī Kṛṣṇa". (Caitanya Caritamrta Adi 4.71, Translation and Purport)
"Just as the fountainhead, Lord Kṛṣṇa, is the cause of all incarnations, so Śrī Rādhā is the cause of all these consorts". (Caitanya Caritamrita Adi 4.76, Translation)
"Rādhā is the one who gives pleasure to Govinda, and She is also the enchantress of Govinda. She is the be-all and end-all of Govinda, and the crest jewel of all His consorts". (Caitanya Caritamrita Adi 4.82, Translation)
"The transcendental goddess Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī is the direct counterpart of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa. She is the central figure for all the goddesses of fortune. She possesses all the attractiveness to attract the all-attractive Personality of Godhead. She is the primeval internal potency of the Lord". (Caitanya Caritamrta Adi 4.83, Translation)
Srila Prabhupada - "When Krsna wants to be attracted by a woman, He has to create such a woman from His own energy. That woman is Rādhārāṇī. It is explained by the Gosvāmīs that Rādhārāṇī is the manifestation of the pleasure potency of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. When the Supreme Lord wants to derive transcendental pleasure, He has to create a woman from His internal potency and that women is Srimati Radharani" (Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 3 Chapter 31 text 38, Purport)
Krsna divided Himself into "two" just so He could experience loving exchanges with a women and gave Her the name Srimati Radharani.
Love can only exist when there are "two or more" involved in loving reciprocations and exchanges.
Srila Prabhupada - ''We have got the propensity to love. Love means somebody else. Love cannot be "one" or love cannot be executed only one, there must be another one. I love somebody; somebody loves me, there must be lover, there must be beloved, and the transaction, then love''. (Lecture on Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 1 Chapter 2 text 6, Delhi, November 12, 1973)
Srila Prabhupāda – ''Love means two persons, then there is exchange, then there is love. I must deal with you open-hearted, you must deal with me open-hearted, then there is love. So if you want to love Kṛṣṇa, God, then these things must be there". (August 9, 1976, Tehran)
However, Krsna is ALWAYS complete in Himself and is NEVER alone because within Krsna is EVERYTHING, and therefore can become two personalities or more anytime likes.
For example, Krsna is always enjoying in Vrindavana with His consort Srimati Radharani, who Krsna created by dividing Himself into two, just so He could experience loving exchanges with a women.
In this way Krsna is "FULLY COMPLETE" as Himself and simultaneously AS His unlimited expansions who are existing all within Him.
Everything in the Spiritual Sky comes under Kṛṣṇa's durisdiction
In other words, just like the sun-disc is ONLY fully complete surrounded by the sun-rays (sunshine) Krsna's full potential of loving expressions is naturally fully complete when surrounded by His loving devotees headed by Srimati Radharani.
This is what it means when it is said Krsna is fully complete within Himself.
Krsna is "FULLY COMPLETE" as Himself enjoying unlimited pastimes with-
1 - With His internal energy headed by Srimati Radharani. (Visnu-sakti-tattva)
2 - His Visnu-tattva expansions throughout the Vaikuntha Planets (unlimited Visnu/Narayana expansions each with their own unique name)
Both Visnu-sakti-tattvas and Visnu-tattvas have 93.75% of Krsna’s qualities which is having 60 of Krsna's 64 qualities.
The above two categories ARE direct expansions of Krsna where He is playing a different role within His own pastimes.
3 - His Siva-tattva expansions (there are many personalities who are actually expansions of Siva) Siva is NOT jiva-tattva soul or Visnu-tattva.
4 - His jiva-tattva expansions (marginal living entities) also known as the jiva-souls)
These two (Siva-tattva and the jiva-souls) are NOT God meaning they are NOT Visnu-sakti-tattva (internal potency) or Visnu-tattva.
Siva (84.375% of Krsna's qualities, having 55 of Krsna's 64 attributes)
The jiva-souls (78.125% of Krsna's qualities having 50 of Krsna's 64 attributes) are NOT God.
Both Siva and the individual jiva-souls have independent personalities separate from Krsna's Personality, so they can NEVER become God (Visnu-tattva) because they are NOT equal to God in anyway.
However, they are ALWAYS dependent on Krsna the Supreme Personality of Godhead and maintainer and cause of ALL causes as His parts and parcels because nothing can be separated from Krsna in that sense even though they have a separate identity and personality from Krsna's Personality.
These living entities manifest as different categories of Krsna's energies, and can NEVER be separated from Krsna because they ARE Krsna's expansions, just like the "Sun-rays can NEVER exist separately from the "Sun-disc".
But His greatest pleasure comes from Srimati Radharani His eternal consort.
Krsna is NEVER alone due to EVERYTHING being completely situated within Him.
This is because Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead and cause of ALL causes.
"The cause of ALL causes" is significant here - meaning EVERYTHING is Krsna.
Krsna is "simultaneously one and different", as an independent individual Person, and as His different expansions also.
Krsna is EVERYTHING and EVERYTHING is part and parcel of Krsna, this is the top most expression and realization of Krsna's full potential that makes Him the Supreme Personality of Godhead and cause of ALL causes who is naturally fully satisfied in Himself BECAUSE EVERYTHING is Him yet simultaneously different from Him making Krsna fully complete, always satisfied and NEVER alone.
This obviously means ALL His different expansions (Visnu-tattva, Visnu-sakti-tattva and jiva-tattva souls) are His part and parcels.
Krsna IS the Supreme Personal Lord (God) as His own individual bodily (vigraha) Form, yet simultaneously ALL other living entities too who expand from Him like the sun-rays radiate from the Sun-disc, for example-
Srila Prabhupada - "Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa are "one and the same", but They have assumed two bodies. Thus They enjoy each other, tasting the mellows of love. One is enjoying in two, we cannot differentiate between one and the other, any more than we can separate fire from heat. The philosophy of inconceivable oneness and difference propounded by Lord Caitanya is the only source of understanding for such intricacies of transcendence. In fact, Rādhārāṇī is the internal potency of Śrī Kṛṣṇa, and She eternally intensifies the pleasure of Śrī Kṛṣṇa.
Impersonalists cannot understand this without the help of a mahā-bhāgavata devotee. The very name “Rādhā” suggests that Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī is eternally the topmost mistress of the comforts of Śrī Kṛṣṇa. As such, She is the medium transmitting the living entities’ service to Śrī Kṛṣṇa. Devotees in Vṛndāvana therefore seek the mercy of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī in order to be recognized as loving servitors of Śrī Kṛṣṇa". (Caitanya Caritamrita Adi 4.56, Translation and Purport)
Srila Prabhupada - "When Krsna wants to be attracted by a woman, He has to create such a woman from His own energy. That woman is Rādhārāṇī". (Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 3 Chapter 31 text 38 Purport)
As already explained, devotees must win the attention of Srimati Radharani to get Krsna's favour, as all service only reaches Krsna through Her.**.
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